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To: TimF who wrote (2054)	9/29/2006 6:18:23 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) of 10087

FDR wasn't "fascist" as such, but his economic policies definitely were influenced by an economic theory of the time called "rationalization." Which was invented by the Germans during WWI, expanded during the Weimar Republic, and borrowed by both Hitler and Lenin. Not the rationalization that is described in the Wikipedia article. To really learn more about it, I had to go to contemporary accounts in old economics books. In a nutshell, it was an attempt to impose "order" on "messy, wasteful" capitalism by the use of "rational" state planning. Instead of competing manufacturers making widgets like automobiles and tools, only one manufacturer was needed for each widget, or so they thought.

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