Abolish Vanity

[Sleazeappeal]

Originally Posted by Kulturkampf

Sleazy, what is the difference between running an economy for the state and running an economy for the people? Particularly when the state's only goal is fulfilling the interests of the people.

You just answered your own question. If we're using Nazi Germany as an example, they were not motivated to fulfill the interests of the public at large, but the corporate sponsors who helped place them in power, particularly those that specialized in wartime industry.

In the 12 years of Nazi Germany 6 were in all out war, others were preparing for a conflict viewed as inevitable. Naturally, the State was interested in a robust economy and their Wehrmacht. To pretend that Nazi Germany and the fascists were doing it out of some selfish way is a gross error.

Again, you've contradicted yourself. The process of focusing the economy to further the Wermacht was designed to benefit the war-profiteering corporations that helped place the Nazi elite in power, not the general public.

Fascism is basically militant socialism with authoritarianism. To say it is not socialist would be factually wrong.

I already said that fascism borrows elements of socialism, it just isn't true socialism.