Hmmm, lets really look at German economic history and what made it successful.
Back in the Cold War days, when there was an East Germany, the saying was no one had ever invented a system the Russians could make work. Nor had anyone ever invented a system the Germans couldn't make work. Apply the same Socialistic scheme on American businesses and you'll end up with something approaching a Depression era economy. Just the situation Democrats crave. A poor and dependent mass governed by a well off politically defined cadre of effete "elites" living in their gated and well guarded enclaves.