No, it doesn’t. Did you read it? Didn’t every capitalist power of the era adopt a wartime command economy? “Nothing so resembles a country at war as another country at war.”-Daniel Guerin.
You make it sound like Hitler's command economy started in 1939. It started virtually at the beginning of his acquisition of complete power.
Nixon adopted wage and price controls, was he a socialist too?
He was certainly getting there.
I steal, therefore I am. From the discussion section of the Mises article.
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writer:
Examine the primary documents of the Third Reich (or Fascist Italy, for that matter) and you discover not only did they refer to themselves as Socialists, their policy goals were socialistic. What is different is that they, Hitler and Mussolini, were not internationalists nor were they Marxist socialists.
However, they were competing for the same voters with the Communists. Look it up.
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We'll start with a Pamphlet written by Joseph Goebbels, hosted on a University website (just so your ignorant ass can't excuse it as a "Right wing website", (cough), excuse me... delicate sensibilities aren't offended)
http://research.calvin.edu/...
Now, just so you don't hand wave away and fail to read it, as folks on the Left are oft want to do, I will copy and paste the relevant passages:
"Why Are We Socialists?
We are socialists because we see in socialism, that is the union of all citizens, the only chance to maintain our racial inheritance and to regain our political freedom and renew our German state.
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I notice that you don’t attempt to refute the fact this document shows the
Nazis trying to appeal to voters by showing they are socialists. Not that you could. You try to impeach the document because it was written by Goebbels? Who else would write Nazi election pamphlets but the [Unwelcome language removed] in charge of selling their propaganda crap to the masses? (Oh,
and please learn how to spell. There is only one “o” in propaganda. Dumbass.)
But… since you asked for it, how about Hitler’s own words, hmmmm? Try and hand wave this, Sparky; here are two quotes by Hitler from Hitler Speaks by Hermann Rauschning, published in 1940:
"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 Communists always will."
Another quote:
"Of what importance is all that, if I range men firmly within a discipline
they cannot escape? Let them own land or factories as much as they please. The decisive factor is that the State, through the Party, is supreme over them regardless of whether they are owners or workers. All that is unessential; our socialism goes far deeper. It establishes a relationship of the individual to the State, the national community. Why need we trouble to socialize banks and factories? We socialize human beings."
But let’s not stop there…
How about the Nazi party platform?
http://www.scrapbookpages.c...
And again so you cannot hand wave without looking like a complete fool who is in an argument over his head (not that it has stopped you so far…):
9. All citizens of the State shall be equal as regards rights and duties.
10. The first duty of every citizen must be to work mentally or physically. The activities of the individual may not clash with the interests of the whole, but must proceed within the frame of the community and be for the general good.
Therefore we demand:
11. That all unearned income, and all income that does not arise from work, be abolished.
12. Since every war imposes on the people fearful sacrifices in life and
property, all personal profit arising from the war must be regarded as a crime against the people. We therefore demand the total confiscation of all war profits whether in assets or material.
13. We demand the nationalization of businesses which have been organized into cartels.
14. We demand that all the profits from wholesale trade shall be shared out.
15. We demand extensive development of provision for old age.
16. We demand the creation and maintenance of a healthy middle-class, the immediate communalization of department stores which will be rented cheaply to small businessmen, and that preference shall be given to small businessmen for provision of supplies needed by the State, the provinces and municipalities.
17. We demand a land reform in accordance with our national requirements, and the enactment of a law to confiscate from the owners without compensation any land needed for the common purpose. The abolition of ground rents, and the prohibition of all speculation in land.
Hmmmm, sounds pretty Leftist to me. And what about this quote:
“A declaration of war against the order of things which exist, against
the state of things which exist, in a word, against the structure of the world which presently exists".
And this description of a political movement as having a “revolutionary creative will” which had “no fixed aim, no permanency, only eternal change”.
Pretty Leftist sounding to me… and they are both from the second
volume, fifth chapter of “Mein Kampf”