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To: Slagle who wrote (62880)	4/27/2005 2:31:13 PM
From: Oblomov	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74559

OK, perhaps the Nazis fell into this sort of arrangement as a means to achieve and maintain their power, but the economic content of the 25 points of the Nazi platform (written by Hitler in 1920 or so? Obviously several years before they took power) resembles other revolutionary socialist ideologies of its day- nationalization of large industry, redistribution of capital, caps on the size of industry and incomes, abolishment of inheritance, etc. It's clear that this program was never fully implemented, but then the Soviet and Maoist regimes had their own cronyist elements that departed from ideology. In the 70s and early 80s, Western socialists distanced themselves from USSR-style socialism by referring to it as "state capitalism", implying that it was just a variant of Mussolini's fascist economics. Nevertheless, what Soviet and Maoist socialism, and the Nazi and fascist systems had in common was the idea that centralized, "scientific" economic planning was possible and was a better way to organize human affairs than traditional arrangements. This was an idea that was very popular among intellectuals in the first half of the 20th century, even in the US.