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To: shadowman who wrote (25774)	9/28/2004 12:29:37 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Hitler called himself a socialist

To: shadowman who wrote (25774)	9/28/2004 1:59:36 PM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Reasons Nazism is considered socialist Self-depiction: the German Nazi Party called itself the "National Socialist Worker's Party", and in 1927, Hitler said, "We are socialists." The Left Wing (examples include Gregor Strasser and Ernst Röhm), and working class brownshirts (or Sturmabteilung) within the Nazi Party supported socialist programs. One writer, Llewellyn H. Rockwell at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, suggests that the chief difference beween Nazism and (as he puts it) others forms of socialism is that the Hitler's socialism was nationalistic while other forms (such as Communism) were internationalist. ... Means of production One definition of socialism is: "[A] system of social organization by which the major means of production and distribution are owned, managed, and controlled by the government, by an association or workers, or the community as a whole." To the extent which Nazi Germany nationalized the means of production in the 1930s and early 1940s, it fits this definition. Centralized planning In some versions of socialism, collective ownership is limited to control of natural resources and utilities. In others, there is a view that economic planning and control should be centralized in the state. To the extent that the Nazis centralized economic planning and control, it might seem to some to fit this description as well. Centralized economic planning and control is a necessary condition of socialism. From fact-index.com