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by jokethrowaway
1891 days ago
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That's exactly my point, there is a difference between the ideals of socialism and the economic doctrine which plays out when socialism gets implemented. In terms of economic policy, all the examples you cited are on the left side or going left in my book. There is definitely nothing capitalistic about state intervention. It also makes sense historically: it took us a long time to understand that capitalism is the most efficient way to create value and advance technology. Even the communist dictatorship that is China understood that and it's using this to rule the world, while the western world (especially the USA) marched back on their capitalism and hampered their economy with more and more regulations. I think we still don't have enough capitalism and we need a completely unregulated market and no government at all. |
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Who was arguing the merits of capitalism? Not me.
But true colors shine through. It seems like your actual motivation for arguing that Nazis were socialist was just a device to argue for unfettered capitalism by falsely associating socialism with them. That's a weak rhetorical trick that far right commentators have been using for quite a while now.