Posted on 07/06/2018 4:57:25 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Much of socialism works hand in glove with crony capitalism.
Hitlers Nazis worked with Krupp and Benz and Siemens. All current capitalist companies.
Failure? Yes. For the governments. But the companies made it through.
Lenin said the goal of socialism is communism. When that happens you get Venezuela. A country full of natural resources where the people are dying of starvation.
Not trying to say anything good about socialism. Just stating what is.
American capitalism should be the model for the world. But its not.
There is an Idiocracy in most of the world that cant handle it. Brilliant scientists cant put together 2+2 and get 4. They forget their science when talking about human things cant see the correlation between humans who will work harder if they get a bigger slice of the pie. Amazing!
No, they had a love of National Socalism, not Germany.
From one cowboy to another.
I think the answer isnt that simple.
After WW1 the Germans were humiliated by the treaty of Versailles. Hitler tended to give the population back its self esteem. What they did with it was wrong.
There was a socialist contingent in the Nazis. That was the SA. The brown shirts led by Ernst Rohm. Hitler had Rohm executed and the SAs power was replaced by the SS. The nation was still socialist it with a strong influence by crony capitalists
The people in Germany who backed the regime, especially after the sudaten land and Alsaice Lorraine were taken back as German areas gave the people a sense of pride. Before that the Nazis were a minority party.
Western Europe at the time was strongly in the socialist camp, as it is now.
They embraced it decades ago.
Trump forced them to admit it.
Yes. Read Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn of Austria.
Woodrow Wilson and company sliced and diced Europe, and made WWII inevitable.
And Teddy gave us Wilson.
Good point.
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