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       Re: National Socialists were socialists
       By: antihellenistic Date: December 22, 2025, 10:14 pm
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       [quote]So you think some businesses sell products for less than
       what it cost to produce them?[/quote]
       In a socialist environment, producers—commonly referred to as
       ‘businesspeople’—are sometimes required to sell their products
       at prices affordable to the surrounding community, even if the
       selling price is below the cost of production. The state will
       provide financial assistance to those who experience such
       conditions. Alternatively, the state may implement a
       coupon-based trading system, in which products are paid for
       using coupons distributed to the local population. These coupons
       are issued as a medium of exchange in quantities corresponding
       to the amount of goods made available to that community.
       Let me remind you that socialism entails the formation of an
       organized political structure as a ‘workers’ state, in which
       there is no commerce or business activity.
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       Source :
  HTML https://t.me/redideologies/1158
       [quote]It is not Germany that will become Bolshevist, but
       Bolshevism that will become a kind of National Socialism.
       Moreover, there is far more that binds us to Bolshevism than
       separates us from it … The petty-bourgeois Social Democrats and
       the trade-union bosses will never become National Socialists,
       but the Communists will always be National Socialists.”[/quote]
       Source: Adolf Hitler, as quoted in Hermann Rauschning, The Voice
       of Destruction, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York (1940), p. 131
       [quote]“[W]hen I was a worker I busied myself with socialist or,
       if you like, marxist [sic] literature.” [/quote]
       —Adolf Hitler, 1931
       ...
       [quote]“It is not to save capitalism that we fight in Russia …
       It is for a revolution of our own. … If Europe were to become
       once more the Europe of bankers, of fat corrupt bourgeoisies ...
       we should prefer Communism to win and destroy everything. We
       would rather have it all blow up than see this rottenness
       resplendent. Europe fights in Russia because it [i.e., Fascist
       Europe] is Socialist. ... what interests us most in the war is
       the revolution to follow ... The war cannot end without the
       triumph of Socialist revolution.”[/quote]
       —Léon Degrelle,159 leading National Socialist figure, speaking
       on behalf of the Nazi SS in occupied Paris, 1943
       Source :
       Appendix 2: Quotations on Nazi socialism and fascism
  HTML https://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/nn-appendix2.pdf
       [quote]Goebbels saw the similarities between the Nazis and the
       Communists as clearly as the differences, which he said could be
       boiled down to nationalism rather than internationalism, a
       'Jewish conspiracy'. 'In the end,' he wrote in his diary later
       that year, 'it would be better for us to fall with Bolshevism
       than to live in eternal slavery under capitalism.'? He took the
       'Socialism' in National Socialism very seriously and felt great
       sympathy for the Russian people and their struggle, stating that
       Lenin understood them better than any previous tsar. In an open
       letter to 'My Friends the Left', he listed many areas of
       agreement with the Communists in their 'common struggle for
       freedom' against the hated bourgeoisie. 'You and I,' he
       concluded, 'we fight each other but we are not really enemies.
       In doing so we divide our forces, and we shall never achieve our
       goal. Perhaps the last extreme will bring us together.
       Perhaps.[/quote]
       Source :
       Goebbels' diary in The Devil's Disciples: Hitler's Inner Circle
       by Anthony Read, (2004) p. 142. - Diary excerpts
  HTML https://archive.org/details/devilsdisciplesh00read/page/142/mode/2up?q=eternal+slavery
       [quote]Many a bourgeois who condemns the worker’s striving for
       an improvement in his economic situation with an outrage that is
       as unwise as it is unjust would possibly suddenly think
       completely differently if for only three weeks he would have had
       laid on his shoulders the burden of the work demanded of the
       others. Even today there are still countless bourgeois elements
       who most indignantly reject a demand for a wage of ten marks a
       month, and especially any sharp support of this, as a ‘Marxist
       crime’, but display complete incomprehension when faced with a
       demand to also limit the excessive profits of certain
       individuals. - Adolf Hitler, 1 November 1930 [2][3][Page 206]
       On 24 February 1940 Hitler declared that the
       bourgeois-capitalist world had already collapsed, its age
       already long outdated: This collapse must take place everywhere
       in some form or other and it will not fail to materialize
       anywhere.’ [6] The German nation could not, said Hitler, ‘live
       with the bourgeois social order at all’. [4] In a conversation
       with the Hungarian ‘Leader of the Nation’ Szálasi, Hitler
       declared on 4 December 1944 that the ‘bourgeois European world’
       would break down ever further and all that was left was the
       alternative ‘that either a sensible social order were created on
       a national level, or that Bolshevism would take over’. [5] [Page
       230][/quote]
       Source :
       1. IB (Illustrierter Beobachter), 5th year set, issue 26 of 28
       June 1930, p. 405
       2. IB (Illustrierter Beobachter), 5th year set, issue 44 of 1
       November 1930, p. 765
       3. Hitler's National Socialism by Rainer Zitelmann Page 228, 206
       and 230
  HTML https://ia801207.us.archive.org/13/items/adolf-hitler-archive/Hitler%27s%20National%20Socialism%202022.pdf
       4. Bouhler I/II, p. 162, speech on 24 February 1940
       5. Ibid., p. 164
       #Post#: 31748--------------------------------------------------
       Re: National Socialists were socialists
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 22, 2025, 10:39 pm
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       You are talking to yourself again.
       #Post#: 31769--------------------------------------------------
       Re: National Socialists were socialists
       By: antihellenistic Date: December 23, 2025, 11:24 pm
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       [quote]You are talking to yourself again.[/quote]
       I am talking about how business activities operate within a
       socialist environment. I am not speaking to myself. Let us pay
       attention to what I have written. If you are a socialist, then
       hate the rich, the middle class, and landlords as Hitler did.
       #Post#: 31781--------------------------------------------------
       Re: National Socialists were socialists
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 24, 2025, 6:26 pm
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       "hate the rich"
       This is an attitude that the True Left is trying to eliminate
       from leftism.
       "as Hitler did"
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       [quote]The Hunger Plan outlined how entire urban populations of
       conquered territories were to be starved to death,[k] thus
       creating an agricultural surplus to feed Germany and urban space
       for the German upper class.[97][/quote]
       #Post#: 31784--------------------------------------------------
       Re: National Socialists were socialists
       By: antihellenistic Date: December 25, 2025, 3:56 am
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       [quote][quote]"hate the rich"[/quote]
       This is an attitude that the True Left is trying to eliminate
       from leftism.
       [quote]"as Hitler did"[/quote]
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       [quote]The Hunger Plan outlined how entire urban populations of
       conquered territories were to be starved to death,[k] thus
       creating an agricultural surplus to feed Germany and urban space
       for the German upper class.[97][/quote][/quote]
       From the 1930s until 1945, in numerous closed-door meetings that
       has been recorded, Hitler openly articulated his hatred toward
       the bourgeoisie and the middle class. He made it clear that they
       would be eliminated should the outcome of the Second World War
       be a victory for his regime. I've already shown evidence of
       Hitler's written conversations regarding his views on the
       concept of economic class. You can see my previous posts.
       Throughout human existence, no wealth has ever been acquired
       justly. All wealth is appropriated by business owners with
       parasitic mentalities, who extract profit without participating
       in the creation of the products or services produced by
       workers—the proletariat. Wealth is also accumulated through the
       exploitation of workers and slaves, with no regard for their
       welfare or mental condition. A true Left will oppose capitalism
       and commercial enterprise
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       #Post#: 31785--------------------------------------------------
       Re: National Socialists were socialists
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 25, 2025, 7:41 am
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       "From the 1930s"
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Nazi_Germany#Privatization_and_business_ties
       [quote]In 1934, the Nazi regime introduced a new law on
       securities trading that favored large companies, and in December
       of that year it "limited the distribution of dividends to 6
       percent, so that profits would be reinvested into
       companies."[77] Generally, Nazi government policies "favored big
       corporations and the transformation of smaller corporations
       (juristische Personengesellschaften or Körperschaften) to
       private firms (Personalgesellschaften)."[77] [/quote]
       "Throughout human existence, no wealth has ever been acquired
       justly."
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       #Post#: 31786--------------------------------------------------
       Re: National Socialists were socialists
       By: antihellenistic Date: December 25, 2025, 9:38 am
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       [quote]"From the 1930s"
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Nazi_Germany#Privatization_and_business_ties
       [quote]In 1934, the Nazi regime introduced a new law on
       securities trading that favored large companies, and in December
       of that year it "limited the distribution of dividends to 6
       percent, so that profits would be reinvested into
       companies."[77] Generally, Nazi government policies "favored big
       corporations and the transformation of smaller corporations
       (juristische Personengesellschaften or Körperschaften) to
       private firms (Personalgesellschaften)."[77][/quote]
       Answer :
       [quote]In view of the successes then achieved by the economic
       policies of the government, Hitler’s reservations against state
       planning of the economy gradually diminished. How important
       Hitler considered the question of state-controlled planning of
       the economy to be can be seen from the fact that in August 1936
       he personally wrote a “Memorandum on the Four-Year Plan 1936.”
       In this memorandum his admiration and fear of the Soviet system
       of planned economy were expressed: “The German economy, however,
       will learn to understand the new economic tasks, or it will
       prove itself to be incapable of continuing to survive in these
       modern times in which the Soviet state sets up a gigantic plan.”
       Hitler was convinced of the superiority of the Soviet planned
       economy system over the capitalist economic system. This must be
       regarded as an essential reason why he so vehemently demanded
       and enforced the extension of state control of the economy in
       Germany as well.
       Hitler attributed the success of National Socialist economic
       policy primarily to state control of the economy. From 1940 at
       the latest, Hitler increasingly became a proponent of the state
       planned economy – partly because he was convinced of the
       superiority of the Soviet Union and its economic system. In his
       monologs to his inner circle (known as “table talks”) on July
       27-28, 1941 Hitler said that “A sensible employment of the
       powers of a nation can only be achieved with a planned economy
       from above.”
       About two weeks later he said: “As far as the planning of the
       economy is concerned, we are still very much at the beginning
       and I imagine it will be something wonderfully nice to build up
       an encompassing German and European economic order.” The
       statement that as far as the planning of the economy was
       concerned one was still at the very beginning is important
       because it shows that Hitler was not thinking at all of a
       reduction of state intervention – not even for the time after
       the war – but, on the contrary, intended to expand the
       instruments of state control of the economy even further.
       On July 5, 1942 Hitler expressed the opinion that if the German
       economy had been able so far to deal with innumerable problems
       “… this was also due in the end to the fact that the direction
       of the economy had gradually become more controlled by the
       state. Only thus had it been possible to enforce the overall
       national objective against the interests of individual groups.
       Even after the war we would not be able to renounce state
       control of the economy, because then every interest group would
       think exclusively of the fulfillment of its wishes.”
       Hitler’s view of the Soviet economic system apparently also
       changed from skepticism to admiration. In a table talk on July
       22, 1942, Hitler vehemently defended the Soviet economic system
       and even the so-called “Stachanow System,” which it was
       “exceedingly stupid” to ridicule: “One has to have unqualified
       respect for Stalin. In his way, the guy is quite a genius! His
       ideals such as Genghis Khan and so forth he knows very well, and
       his economic planning is so all-encompassing that it is only
       exceeded by our own Four-Year Plan. I have no doubts whatsoever
       that there have been no unemployed in the USSR, as opposed to
       capitalist countries such as the USA.”
       Hitler’s admiration for the Soviet system is also confirmed in
       the notes of Wilhelm Scheidt, who—as adjutant to Hitler’s
       “representative for military history” Walther Scherff and a
       member of the Führer Headquarters group—had close contact with
       Hitler and sometimes even took part in briefings. Scheidt writes
       that Hitler underwent a “conversion to Bolshevism.” From
       Hitler’s remarks, he says, the following reactions could be
       derived: “Firstly, Hitler was enough of a materialist to be the
       first to recognise the enormous armament achievements of the
       USSR in the context of her strong, generous and all-encompassing
       economic organisation.”
       Scheidt writes that in view of such impressions Hitler had
       recognised and expressed “the inner relationship of his system
       with the so heatedly opposed Bolshevism,” whereby he had to
       admit that “this system of the enemy was developed far more
       completely and straightforwardly. His enemy became his secret
       example.” The “experience of Communist Russia,” particularly the
       impression of the alleged superiority of the Soviet economic
       system, had produced a strong reaction in Hitler and the circle
       of his faithful: “The other economic systems appeared not to be
       competitive in comparison.” About the impression of the rational
       organisation of farming in the USSR and the “gigantic industrial
       plants which gave eloquent testimony despite their destruction,”
       Hitler, says Scheidt, had been “enthusiastic”.
       The German dictator admitted during a conversation with Benito
       Mussolini on April 22, 1944, he had become convinced:
       “Capitalism too had run its course, the nations were no longer
       willing to stand for it. The victors to survive would be
       Fascism, and National Socialism – maybe Bolshevism in the East.”
       Hitler himself was convinced, as he emphasized in his last radio
       address on January, 30, 1945, “that the age of unrestricted
       economic liberalism had outlived itself.” These statements of
       Hitler’s in 1935 to 1945, but particularly from the beginning of
       the 1940s on, show that he had become a vehement critic of the
       system of free enterprise and a confirmed adherent of the system
       of a planned, state-controlled economy.[/quote]
       Source :
       How Hitler Became a Believer in the State-Planned Economy
  HTML https://fee.org/articles/how-hitler-became-a-believer-in-the-state-planned-economy/
       [quote][quote]"Throughout human existence, no wealth has ever
       been acquired justly."[/quote]
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       Answer :
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       And also :
       Market failure occurs when the process of the exchange of goods
       and services doesn't benefit everyone in society. In an ideal
       market, individuals make choices that are good for all members,
       not just for themselves; however, market failure occurs when
       individuals make decisions that are self-serving and negative
       for others.
       [quote]For example, consider a factory that causes air
       pollution. This may not bother the owners of the factory but it
       is harmful to other members of society because the air they're
       breathing is damaging to their health.
       Market failure can happen due to many reasons, such as when
       people don't have enough information to make good decisions or
       when a few people or companies have too much control over
       prices. When these problems arise, the market doesn't fix
       itself, and other solutions, like government intervention or
       collective action are needed to restore balance.
       ...
       Market failure refers to the inefficient allocation of resources
       in the free market that occurs when individuals acting in
       rational self-interest generate sub-optimal economic outcomes.
       These economic inefficiencies may occur in explicit markets
       where goods and services are exchanged or in implicit markets
       such as the exchange of favors in the legislative process.
       The causes underlying market failures include negative
       externalities, incomplete information, concentrated market
       power, inefficiencies in production and allocation[/quote]
       Source :
       Market Failure: What It Is in Economics, Common Types, and
       Causes By The Investopedia Team Updated May 10, 2025 Reviewed by
       Robert C. Kelly Fact checked by Skylar Clarine
  HTML https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marketfailure.asp
       The solution :
       [quote]The New York Times, February 21, 1943
       NAZI MILITARY DEFEAT BRINGS 'TOTAL WAR' HOME
       German Upper and Middle Classes Fear Hitler Might Try to Destroy
       Them
       By GEORGE AXELSSON By Telephone to The New York Times.
       The Junkers, the bourgeoisie and the small businessmen now think
       that Hitler intends to sacrifice them on the altar of a 'total
       war effort,' in the Soviet style. They fear that this operation
       will open the horizon of a permanent dictatorship of the
       proletariat, also on the Stalinist model, in which these classes
       will disappear without any visible chance of revival… That
       Hitler might also want to save his war by transforming the
       National Socialist State into a National Communist State at the
       expense of the middle and upper classes seems to be the chief
       worry in Berlin today.[/quote]
       Source :
       The New York Times: Sunday February 21, 1943. (2024). Retrieved
       November 7, 2024, from Nytimes.com website:
  HTML https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/02/21/88519072.html?pageNumber=76
       [quote]He [Hitler] voiced his radical regrets: that he had not
       exterminated the German nobility, that he had come to power 'too
       easily', not unleashing a classical revolution 'to destroy
       elites and classes',' that he had supported Franco in Spain
       instead of the Communists, that he had failed to put himself at
       the head of a movement for the liberation of the colonial
       peoples, 'especially the Arabs', that he had not freed the
       working class from 'the bourgeoisie of fossils'. Above all he
       regretted his leniency, his lack of the admirable ruthlessness
       Stalin had so consistendy showed and which invited one's
       'unreserved respect' for him. One of his last recorded remarks,
       on 27 April 1945, three days before he killed himself (whether
       by bullet or poison is disputed)[/quote]
       Source :
       Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties by
       Paul Johnson Page 413
  HTML https://archive.org/details/moderntimesworld00john_1/mode/2up?q=to+destroy+elites+and+classes
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       Re: National Socialists were socialists
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 25, 2025, 4:13 pm
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       "Answer :"
       You are illiterate.
       [quote]“Capitalism too had run its course, the nations were no
       longer willing to stand for it. The victors to survive would be
       Fascism, and National Socialism – maybe Bolshevism in the
       East.”[/quote]
       This means Hitler acknowledged that Bolshevism was more
       survivable, not that he preferred it. What Hitler is saying here
       is that capitalism cannot be counted upon to defeat Bolshevism.
       This is similar to how I keep saying that False Leftism will
       never defeat rightism, and that the future will eventually be
       either True Leftist or rightist. But no one here (I hope!)
       thinks I prefer rightism.
       [quote]For example, consider a factory that causes air
       pollution. This may not bother the owners of the factory but it
       is harmful to other members of society because the air they're
       breathing is damaging to their health.[/quote]
       Of course I would ban factories that cause air pollution,
       because causing air pollution is initiated violence, because
       people cannot choose to not breathe the polluted part of the air
       and breathe only the unpolluted part of the air. But people can
       choose to not visit the more expensive restaurant and visit only
       the less expensive restaurant if that is what they want to do in
       the original example. Therefore I would not ban the more
       expensive restaurant. But you would. This makes you the
       initiator of violence.
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       Re: National Socialists were socialists
       By: PotatoChip Date: December 25, 2025, 5:42 pm
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       [quote]This is similar to how I keep saying that False Leftism
       will never defeat rightism, and that the future will eventually
       be either True Leftist or rightist. But no one here (I hope!)
       thinks I prefer rightism.[/quote]
       I've noticed this odd psychological quirk as well among some
       people. When someone states things the way they are, some
       automatically assume that this is what the person making the
       claim prefers.
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       Re: National Socialists were socialists
       By: antihellenistic Date: December 25, 2025, 7:36 pm
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       [quote author=90sRetroFan link=topic=3223.msg31787#msg31787
       date=1766700819]
       "Answer :"
       You are illiterate.
       [quote]“Capitalism too had run its course, the nations were no
       longer willing to stand for it. The victors to survive would be
       Fascism, and National Socialism – maybe Bolshevism in the
       East.”[/quote]
       This means Hitler acknowledged that Bolshevism was more
       survivable, not that he preferred it. What Hitler is saying here
       is that capitalism cannot be counted upon to defeat Bolshevism.
       This is similar to how I keep saying that False Leftism will
       never defeat rightism, and that the future will eventually be
       either True Leftist or rightist. But no one here (I hope!)
       thinks I prefer rightism.
       [quote]For example, consider a factory that causes air
       pollution. This may not bother the owners of the factory but it
       is harmful to other members of society because the air they're
       breathing is damaging to their health.[/quote]
       Of course I would ban factories that cause air pollution,
       because causing air pollution is initiated violence, because
       people cannot choose to not breathe the polluted part of the air
       and breathe only the unpolluted part of the air. But people can
       choose to not visit the more expensive restaurant and visit only
       the less expensive restaurant if that is what they want to do in
       the original example. Therefore I would not ban the more
       expensive restaurant. But you would. This makes you the
       initiator of violence.
       [/quote]
       Hitler was closer to Bolshevism than to capitalism, given his
       hostile attitude toward the middle class and the bourgeoisie.
       Documentary historical evidence of his views has been repeatedly
       presented by me in posts made at earlier times.
       [quote]As Hans Mommsen has shown, the German opposition to
       Hitler, which recruited almost exclusively from the upper class
       and here primarily from the nobility, regarded National
       Socialism and Bolshevism as being identical. Trott said, for
       example: 'What presents itself to us as a dirty brown muck at
       home faces us with Asian hardness and brutality in Moscow'?'
       Hassell feared that 'socialism in the Hitlerian form' inevitably
       had the objective of destroying the upper classes through an
       Bolshevization And in a memorandum prepared by Lieutenant
       Commander Liedig at the end of 1939, which illuminates the
       opinions of the group around Oster in Intelligence and is also
       typical of the political concepts of Beck and Halder, it says:
       'A revolutionary dynamics of destruction of all the historic
       links and all the cultural tie-ins which once made up the
       dignity and fame of Europe is the only, and the total, secret of
       his [Hitler's] statesmanship."[/quote]
       Source :
       1. The Nazi War Against Capitalism by Nevin Gussack Page 83
       2. Hitler : The Policies of Seduction by Zitelmann, Rainer Page
       232, 404 - 405
  HTML https://archive.org/details/hitlerpoliciesof0000zite/page/232/mode/2up?q=not+be+able+to+renounce
       [quote]Thyssen reported after his defection from Nazi Germany in
       1939 that: “Goering is an army man. He imagines that it is
       enough to give orders for industry to carry them out. If the
       industrialists declare that it is impossible, they are accused
       of sabotage. Soon Germany will not be different than Bolshevik
       Russia; the heads of enterprises who do not fulfill the
       conditions which the Plan prescribes will be accused of treason
       against the German people and shot.”[/quote]
       Source :
       1. The Nazi War Against Capitalism by Nevin Gussack Page 87
       2. I Paid Hitler by Fritz Thyssen page 187
  HTML https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.239690/page/n201/mode/2up?q=treason+against+the+German
       [quote]How Hitler Became a Believer in the State-Planned Economy
       by  Dr Rainer Zitelmann
       In fact, to a certain extent we can only speculate on Hitler’s
       true position before 1933 because Hitler kept his plans strictly
       secret, primarily in order not to offend the businessmen. In his
       talks with Otto Wagener, the chief of the economic policy
       section of the NSDAP, Hitler underlined the importance of
       keeping his economic plans secret time and again. In September
       1931, for example, he said:
       “The conclusion from this is what I have said all along, that
       this idea is not to become a subject for propaganda, or even for
       any sort of discussion, except within the innermost study group.
       It can only be implemented in any case when we hold political
       power in our hands.And even then we will have as opponents,
       besides the Jews, all of private industry, particularly heavy
       industry, as well as the medium and large landholders, and
       naturally the banks.”
       How important Hitler considered the question of state-controlled
       planning of the economy to be can be seen from the fact that in
       August 1936 he personally wrote a “Memorandum on the Four-Year
       Plan 1936.” In this memorandum his admiration and fear of the
       Soviet system of planned economy were expressed: “The German
       economy, however, will learn to understand the new economic
       tasks, or it will prove itself to be incapable of continuing to
       survive in these modern times in which the Soviet state sets up
       a gigantic plan.”
       Hitler was convinced of the superiority of the Soviet planned
       economy system over the capitalist economic system. This must be
       regarded as an essential reason why he so vehemently demanded
       and enforced the extension of state control of the economy in
       Germany as well.
       Hitler attributed the success of National Socialist economic
       policy primarily to state control of the economy. From 1940 at
       the latest, Hitler increasingly became a proponent of the state
       planned economy – partly because he was convinced of the
       superiority of the Soviet Union and its economic system. In his
       monologs to his inner circle (known as “table talks”) on July
       27-28, 1941 Hitler said that “A sensible employment of the
       powers of a nation can only be achieved with a planned economy
       from above.”
       About two weeks later he said: “As far as the planning of the
       economy is concerned, we are still very much at the beginning
       and I imagine it will be something wonderfully nice to build up
       an encompassing German and European economic order.” The
       statement that as far as the planning of the economy was
       concerned one was still at the very beginning is important
       because it shows that Hitler was not thinking at all of a
       reduction of state intervention – not even for the time after
       the war – but, on the contrary, intended to expand the
       instruments of state control of the economy even further.
       On July 5, 1942 Hitler expressed the opinion that if the German
       economy had been able so far to deal with innumerable problems
       “… this was also due in the end to the fact that the direction
       of the economy had gradually become more controlled by the
       state. Only thus had it been possible to enforce the overall
       national objective against the interests of individual groups.
       Even after the war we would not be able to renounce state
       control of the economy, because then every interest group would
       think exclusively of the fulfillment of its wishes.”
       Hitler’s view of the Soviet economic system apparently also
       changed from skepticism to admiration. In a table talk on July
       22, 1942, Hitler vehemently defended the Soviet economic system
       and even the so-called “Stachanow System,” which it was
       “exceedingly stupid” to ridicule: “One has to have unqualified
       respect for Stalin. In his way, the guy is quite a genius! His
       ideals such as Genghis Khan and so forth he knows very well, and
       his economic planning is so all-encompassing that it is only
       exceeded by our own Four-Year Plan. I have no doubts whatsoever
       that there have been no unemployed in the USSR, as opposed to
       capitalist countries such as the USA.”
       ...
       Hitler’s admiration for the Soviet system is also confirmed in
       the notes of Wilhelm Scheidt, who—as adjutant to Hitler’s
       “representative for military history” Walther Scherff and a
       member of the Führer Headquarters group—had close contact with
       Hitler and sometimes even took part in briefings. Scheidt writes
       that Hitler underwent a “conversion to Bolshevism.” From
       Hitler’s remarks, he says, the following reactions could be
       derived: “Firstly, Hitler was enough of a materialist to be the
       first to recognise the enormous armament achievements of the
       USSR in the context of her strong, generous and all-encompassing
       economic organisation.”[/quote]
       Source :
       How Hitler Became a Believer in the State-Planned Economy.
       (2024, February 6). Foundation for Economic Education.
  HTML https://fee.org/articles/how-hitler-became-a-believer-in-the-state-planned-economy/
       [quote]“It is not Germany that will turn Bolshevist, but
       Bolshevism that will become a sort of National Socialism,”
       Hitler replied. “Besides, there is more that binds us to
       Bolshevism than separates us from it. There is, above all,
       genuine, revolutionary feeling, which is alive everywhere in
       Russia except where there are Jewish Marxists. I have always
       made allowance for this circumstance, and given orders that
       former Communists are to be admitted to the party at once. The
       petit bourgeois Social-Democrat and the trade-union boss will
       never make a National Socialist, but the Communist always
       will.”[/quote]
       Source :
       Hermann Rauschning. (1939). Hitler Speaks. Page 134-136.
  HTML https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.505385/page/n133/mode/2up
       [quote]What the Nazis have introduced in Germany is a form of
       graduated Bolshevism, directing their first attack not against
       the capitalist class as a whole, but against Jewish capitalists,
       excoriated on racial rather than economic grounds. Yet once
       Jewish bankers, industrialists, and business men have been
       forced to surrender their property by methods no less drastic
       and brutal than those employed by Russian Communists in 1917,
       the Nazi government may train its guns on the Catholic Church,
       which owns vast properties, especially in Austria — again
       screening economic motives by denunciation of alleged religious
       interference in politics. Nor is there reason to expect that the
       Nazis will stop at this point, and that purely Aryan,
       non-religious property can consider itself permanently insured
       against expropriation.[/quote]
       Source :
       Europe in Retreat by Vera Micheles Dean Research Director
       Foreign Policy Association Alfred A Knopf New York 1939 Page 207
       [quote]Despite the views of many Western capitalist and
       conservative quarters of opinion, the Nazis represented a war
       against economic and political freedom in favor of a
       revolutionary form of totalitarianism. Henry Wolfe observed that
       “To begin with, Nazism is at war with the so-called capitalist
       world. There may still be some befuddled conservatives in the
       democracies who think they see in the Nazi movement a bulwark
       against communism. They should understand that Nazism is as
       fanatically opposed to the individualist capitalist society as
       Bolshevism; perhaps more so, in view of recent nationalist
       drifts in the USSR.”[/quote]
       1. The Nazi War Against Capitalism oleh Nevin Gussack, Page 129
       2. Wolfe, Henry C. “German Plans for the Next War” American
       Mercury August 1944 Page 181 (Page 55 in pdf format)
       So, I am not illiterate
       Moreover, the existence of high-value, expensive areas creates
       an incentive for the affluent class to adopt a condescending
       attitude toward those from underprivileged backgrounds, merely
       because the latter possess weaker purchasing power to consume
       more expensive products and services.
       If you do not desire a war between classes, then stop using
       Hitler and socialism as inspirations for your struggle; you are
       merely deceiving many people with fabricated interpretations of
       Hitler’s views
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