it also promote that State
full control the economic sector (which SG have go to some extend
and area).
State control of economy is left wing agenda not right wing or
fascist.
Against the mainstream: Nazi privatization in 1930s
Germany
It is a fact that the government of the Nazi Party sold off
public ownership in several State owned firms in the mid-1930s.
These firms belonged to a wide range of sectors: steel,
mining, banking, local
public utilities, shipyards, ship-lines, railways, etc.
In addition, the delivery
of some public
services that were produced by government prior to the 1930s,
especially social and labor-related services, was transferred to
the private sector, mainly to organizations within
the party...
http://www.ub.edu/graap/nazi.pdf
....In these strange exceptions we can find one of the central
principles of the Nazi system. It is a principle which is often
missed. We have
been told that Germany had a corporate state or a totalitarian
state. Neither was true. There was no real
corporate organization (even fraudulent, as in Italy and Austria),
and such an organization, much discussed before and after 1933, was
quickly dropped by 1935. The term "totalitarian" cannot be applied
to the German system of self-regulation, although
it could be applied to the Soviet system.
The Nazi
system was dictatorial capitalism—that is,
a society
organized so that everything was subject to the benefit of
capitalism; everything, that is, compatible with
two limiting factors: (a) that the Nazi Party, which was not capitalist,
was in control of the state, and (b) that
war, which is not capitalist, could force curtailment of capitalist
benefits (in the short run at least). In this judgment we must
define our terms accurately.
We define
capitalism as "a system of economics in which production is based
on profit for those who control the capital."
In this definition one point must be noted: the expression "for
those who control the capital" does not necessarily mean the
owners. In modern economic conditions large-scale enterprise with
widely dispersed stock-ownership has made management more
important....
...The
traditional capitalist system was a profit system. In its pursuit
of profits it was not primarily concerned with production,
consumption, prosperity, high employment, national welfare, or
anything else. As a result, its concentration on
profits eventually served to injure profits.
This development got the whole
society into such a mess that enemies of the profit system began to
rise up on all sides. Fascism was the counterattack of the profit
system against these enemies. This counterattack was conducted in
such a violent fashion that the whole appearance of society was
changed, although, in the short run, the real structure was not
greatly modified.
In the long run Fascism threatened
even the profit system, because the defenders of that system,
businessmen rather than politicians, turned over the control of the
state to a party of gangsters and lunatics who in the long run
might turn to attack businessmen themselves....
...Many of the economic activities which had come
under state control were "re-privatized."
The United Steel Works, which the government had purchased from
Ferdinand Flick in 1932, as well as three of the largest banks in
Germany, which had been taken over during the crisis of 1931,
were restored to
private ownership at a loss to the government.
Reinmetal-Borsig, one of the greatest corporations in heavy
industry, was sold to the Hermann G๖ring Works.
Many other important firms were sold to private
investors.
At the same time the property in
industrial firms still held by the state was shifted from public control to joint
public-private control by being subjected to a mixed board of
directors. Finally, municipal enterprise was curtailed;
its profits were taxed for the first time in 1935,
and the law permitting municipal electric-power plants was revoked
in the same year...
....The danger from labor was not nearly so great as
might seem at first glance. It was not labor itself which was
dangerous, because labor itself did not come directly and
immediately in conflict with the profit system; rather it was with
labor getting the wrong ideas, especially Marxist ideas which did
seek to put the laborer directly in conflict with the profit system
and with private ownership.
As a result, the Nazi system sought to control the ideas and the
organization of labor, and was quite as eager to control his free
time and leisure activities as it was to control his working
arrangements.
For this reason
it was not sufficient merely to smash the existing labor
organizations. This would have left labor free and
uncontrolled and able to pick up any kind of ideas.
Nazism,
therefore, did not try to destroy these organizations but to take
them over. All the old unions were dissolved into
the German Labor Front. This gave an amorphous body of 25 million
in which the individual was lost. This Labor Front was a party
organization, and its finances were under control of the party
treasurer, Franz X. Schwarz.
The Labor Front soon lost all of its
economic activities, chiefly to the Ministry of
Economics. An elaborate facade of
fraudulent
organizations which either never existed or never functioned was
built up about the Labor Front.
They included national and regional chambers of labor and a Federal
Labor and Economic Council. In fact, the Labor Front had no economic or
political functions and had nothing to do with wages or labor
conditions.
Its chief functions were (1) to propagandize; (2) to absorb the
workers' leisure time, especially by the "Strength Through Joy"
organization, ( 3 ) to tax workers for the party's profit; (4) to
provide jobs for reliable party members within the Labor Front
itself; (5) to disrupt working-class solidarity.
This facade was painted with an
elaborate ideology based on the idea that the factory or enterprise
was a community in which leader and followers
cooperated...
http://real-world-news.org/bk-quigley/09.html#28
