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Regarding the myth that “corporativism” represented rule by corporations: “The programme of the Fascists, as drafted in 1919, was vehemently anti-capitalistic,” wrote Ludwig von Mises. “The most radical New Dealers and even communists could agree with it.”<ref> Ludwig von Mises, ''[http://mises.org/books/socialism.pdf Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis]'' (Yale University Press, 1951), p. 576</ref> It demanded “Suppression of incorporated joint-stock companies, industrial or financial. Suppression of all speculation by banks and stock exchanges,” and “Control and taxation of private wealth. Confiscation of unproductive income.”<ref> Count Carlo Sforza, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=5a0EHPh-X-YC Contemporary Italy - Its Intellectual and Moral Origins]'' (Read Books, 2007) ISBN 1406760307, pp. 295-296</ref> The Fascists called this economic system ''corporativismo'' (corporativism). As UCLA international relations and political science professor Herbert Steiner observed in 1938, “So substantial are the limitations under which private property and capital are exercised in Italy, that the conception of ‘capitalism’ is avowedly destroyed and replaced by ''corporativismo''.”<ref>H. Arthur Steiner,  ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=1LqtuYl43dwC Government in Fascist Italy]'' (McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1938), p. 92</ref>

Regarding the myth that “corporativism” represented rule by corporations: “The programme of the Fascists, as drafted in 1919, was vehemently anti-capitalistic,” wrote Ludwig von Mises. “The most radical New Dealers and even communists could agree with it.”<ref> Ludwig von Mises, ''[http://mises.org/books/socialism.pdf Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis]'' (Yale University Press, 1951), p. 576</ref> It demanded “Suppression of incorporated joint-stock companies, industrial or financial. Suppression of all speculation by banks and stock exchanges,” and “Control and taxation of private wealth. Confiscation of unproductive income.”<ref> Count Carlo Sforza, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=5a0EHPh-X-YC Contemporary Italy - Its Intellectual and Moral Origins]'' (Read Books, 2007) ISBN 1406760307, pp. 295-296</ref> The Fascists called this economic system ''corporativismo'' (corporativism). As UCLA international relations and political science professor Herbert Steiner observed in 1938, “So substantial are the limitations under which private property and capital are exercised in Italy, that the conception of ‘capitalism’ is avowedly destroyed and replaced by ''corporativismo''.”<ref>H. Arthur Steiner,  ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=1LqtuYl43dwC Government in Fascist Italy]'' (McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1938), p. 92</ref>

Likewise, Nazi "domestic policies were remarkably friendly toward the German lower classes, soaking the wealthy and redistributing the burdens of wartime to the benefit of the underprivileged," including "transferring the tax burden to corporations."<ref>Gotz Aly, ''Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State'', tr. Jefferson Chase (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0805087265, pp. 7, 38</ref>

Likewise, Nazi "domestic policies were remarkably friendly toward the German lower classes, soaking the wealthy and redistributing the burdens of wartime to the benefit of the underprivileged," including "transferring the tax burden to corporations."<ref>Gotz Aly, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=nDcJDKnVS7EC Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State]'', tr. Jefferson Chase (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0805087265, pp. 7, 38</ref>

Along with its well-known anti-Semitic and expansionist planks, the Nazi Party program included a number of less-remembered demands that were (and are still) considered “progressive.” For example: “the State shall above all undertake to ensure that every citizen shall have the possibility of [http://www.livingwagecampaign.org/ living decently and earning a livelihood]”, “a generous increase in [http://www.socsec.org/ old-age pensions]”, “specially talented children of poor parents, whatever their station or occupation, be [http://www.nea.org/home/LegislativeActionCenter.html educated at the expense of the State]”, “help raise the standard of [http://www.healthreform.gov/ national health]” by “providing [http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/choice-action-center/take-action/ maternity welfare centers], banning child labor, [http://www.reversechildhoodobesity.org/sites/default/files/files-wfm/files/09.15.09-HCReformPositionPaper-RWJFCenter.pdf increasing physical fitness] through the introduction of compulsory games and gymnastics, and by the greatest possible encouragement of associations concerned with the physical education of the young,” etc.

Along with its well-known anti-Semitic and expansionist planks, the Nazi Party program included a number of less-remembered demands that were (and are still) considered “progressive.” For example: “the State shall above all undertake to ensure that every citizen shall have the possibility of [http://www.livingwagecampaign.org/ living decently and earning a livelihood]”, “a generous increase in [http://www.socsec.org/ old-age pensions]”, “specially talented children of poor parents, whatever their station or occupation, be [http://www.nea.org/home/LegislativeActionCenter.html educated at the expense of the State]”, “help raise the standard of [http://www.healthreform.gov/ national health]” by “providing [http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/choice-action-center/take-action/ maternity welfare centers], banning child labor, [http://www.reversechildhoodobesity.org/sites/default/files/files-wfm/files/09.15.09-HCReformPositionPaper-RWJFCenter.pdf increasing physical fitness] through the introduction of compulsory games and gymnastics, and by the greatest possible encouragement of associations concerned with the physical education of the young,” etc.

The Nazi platform attacked the concept of economic freedom, asserting that the “first duty of every citizen must be to work mentally or physically”, that “all [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/26/obama-wants-higher-capita_n_170237.html unearned income], and all income that does not arise from work, be abolished... breaking of [http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/14/obama-decries-fat-cat-bankers/ the tyranny of interest]”, that “that “[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/obama-calls-for-an-extrem_b_204903.html usurers], profiteers, etc., are to be punished with death, regardless of creed or race”, “total confiscation of all [http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200703/032007.html war profits]”, “[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/24/nationalizing-banks-aig-c_n_169388.html nationalization of all trusts] that have gone public [i.e., publicly-traded companies]”, “profit-sharing in large industries”, “ immediate [http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/cities-of-exuberance/stopping-the-big-boxes communalization of large stores]”, “enactment of a law to [http://www.ij.org/images/castlecoalition/docs/victimizing_the_vulnerable.pdf expropriate the owners without compensation] of any land needed for the common purpose... abolition of ground rents, and the prohibition of all [http://www.boston.com/realestate/news/blogs/renow/2009/02/real_estate_spe.html speculation in land]”, etc. (Nazi newspapers ran frequent polemics against landlords.)<ref>Gotz Aly, ''Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State'', tr. Jefferson Chase (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0805087265, p. 63</ref>

The Nazi platform attacked the concept of economic freedom, asserting that the “first duty of every citizen must be to work mentally or physically”, that “all [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/26/obama-wants-higher-capita_n_170237.html unearned income], and all income that does not arise from work, be abolished... breaking of [http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/14/obama-decries-fat-cat-bankers/ the tyranny of interest]”, that “that “[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/obama-calls-for-an-extrem_b_204903.html usurers], profiteers, etc., are to be punished with death, regardless of creed or race”, “total confiscation of all [http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200703/032007.html war profits]”, “[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/24/nationalizing-banks-aig-c_n_169388.html nationalization of all trusts] that have gone public [i.e., publicly-traded companies]”, “profit-sharing in large industries”, “ immediate [http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/cities-of-exuberance/stopping-the-big-boxes communalization of large stores]”, “enactment of a law to [http://www.ij.org/images/castlecoalition/docs/victimizing_the_vulnerable.pdf expropriate the owners without compensation] of any land needed for the common purpose... abolition of ground rents, and the prohibition of all [http://www.boston.com/realestate/news/blogs/renow/2009/02/real_estate_spe.html speculation in land]”, etc. (Nazi newspapers ran frequent polemics against landlords.)<ref>Gotz Aly, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=nDcJDKnVS7EC Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State]'', tr. Jefferson Chase (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0805087265, p. 63</ref>

As against individualism and the free market, the Nazis demanded “creation of a [http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/obama/2009/03/19/under-president-obama-big-government-is-back.html strong central authority] in the State”, “[http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9238.html COMMON GOOD BEFORE INDIVIDUAL GOOD]” [Capitalization in original], that “No individual shall do any work that offends against the interest of the community to the benefit of all”, that “ruthless war be waged against those who work to the injury of the common welfare”, etc.

As against individualism and the free market, the Nazis demanded “creation of a [http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/obama/2009/03/19/under-president-obama-big-government-is-back.html strong central authority] in the State”, “[http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9238.html COMMON GOOD BEFORE INDIVIDUAL GOOD]” [Capitalization in original], that “No individual shall do any work that offends against the interest of the community to the benefit of all”, that “ruthless war be waged against those who work to the injury of the common welfare”, etc.

Finally, the Nazis wiped out free speech and religious freedom, demanding “a legal campaign against those who propagate deliberate political lies and disseminate them through the press”, that “Newspapers transgressing against the common welfare [http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_chicsuntimes-rush.htm shall be suppressed]”, disingenuously promising freedom for all religious faiths “in the state, insofar as they do not endanger its existence” or “[http://www.nas.org/polArticles.cfm?Doc_Id=190 offend the moral and ethical sense]” of the Germanic race.<ref>Louis Leo Snyder, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=8hV4AAAAIAAJ Documents of German History]'' (Rutgers University Press, 1958), p. 393 ''et seq.''</ref> The Party statutes of May 22, 1926, state of these points: "This program is unalterable."<ref>[http://specialcollections.library.emory.edu/findingaids/content.php?id=gosnell425_10351 Cullen Bryant Gosnell] and [http://iamcr.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=360&Itemid=362 Raymond Blalock Nixon], [http://books.google.com/books?id=ZVDNAAAAMAAJ ''Proceedings: Institute of Citizenship'', Vol. 18, Iss. 7, 1932] (Emory University)</ref>

Finally, the Nazis wiped out free speech and religious freedom, demanding “a legal campaign against those who propagate deliberate political lies and disseminate them through the press”, that “Newspapers transgressing against the common welfare [http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_chicsuntimes-rush.htm shall be suppressed]”, disingenuously promising freedom for all religious faiths “in the state, insofar as they do not endanger its existence” or “[http://www.nas.org/polArticles.cfm?Doc_Id=190 offend the moral and ethical sense]” of the Germanic race.<ref>Louis Leo Snyder, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=8hV4AAAAIAAJ Documents of German History]'' (Rutgers University Press, 1958), p. 393 ''et seq.''</ref> The Party statutes of May 22, 1926, state of these points: "This program is unalterable."<ref>[http://specialcollections.library.emory.edu/findingaids/content.php?id=gosnell425_10351 Cullen Bryant Gosnell] and [http://iamcr.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=360&Itemid=362 Raymond Blalock Nixon], [http://books.google.com/books?id=ZVDNAAAAMAAJ ''Proceedings: Institute of Citizenship'', Vol. 18, Iss. 7, 1932] (Emory University)</ref>

"Architect of the Holocaust" Adolf Eichmann wrote in his memoirs, "My political sympathies inclined towards the left and emphasized socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones.” He and his comrades, said Eichmann, viewed Nazism and Communism as “quasi-siblings."<ref>Gotz Aly, ''Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State'', tr. Jefferson Chase (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0805087265, pp. 16-17</ref> Likewise, in a 1944 article titled "Our Socialism," Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels boasted that “We alone [the Nazis] have the best social welfare measures.” In contrast, he wrote, "The Jews are the incarnation of capitalism.”<ref>Victor Klemperer, ''I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945'' Vol. 2 (Random House, Inc., 2001) ISBN 0375756973, p. 317</ref> (Even in this antisemitism, the Nazis were following Marx, who wrote, "Let us not look for the secret of the Jew in his religion, but let us look for the secret of his religion in the real Jew. What is the secular basis of Judaism? ''Practical'' need, ''self-interest''. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? ''Huckstering''. What is his worldly God? ''Money''.")<ref>Karl Marx, "[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/ On The Jewish Question]," ''Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher'', February 1844</ref>

"Architect of the Holocaust" Adolf Eichmann wrote in his memoirs, "My political sympathies inclined towards the left and emphasized socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones.” He and his comrades, said Eichmann, viewed Nazism and Communism as “quasi-siblings."<ref>Gotz Aly, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=nDcJDKnVS7EC Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State]'', tr. Jefferson Chase (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0805087265, pp. 16-17</ref> Likewise, in a 1944 article titled "Our Socialism," Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels boasted that “We alone [the Nazis] have the best social welfare measures.” In contrast, he wrote, "The Jews are the incarnation of capitalism.”<ref>Victor Klemperer, ''I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945'' Vol. 2 (Random House, Inc., 2001) ISBN 0375756973, p. 317</ref> (Even in this antisemitism, the Nazis were following Marx, who wrote, "Let us not look for the secret of the Jew in his religion, but let us look for the secret of his religion in the real Jew. What is the secular basis of Judaism? ''Practical'' need, ''self-interest''. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? ''Huckstering''. What is his worldly God? ''Money''.")<ref>Karl Marx, "[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/ On The Jewish Question]," ''Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher'', February 1844</ref>

By confiscating and redistributing the property of Jews, the Nazis sought what they called “a truly socialist division of personal assets.”<ref>Gotz Aly, ''Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State'', tr. Jefferson Chase (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0805087265, p. 300</ref> To this end, the Nazis enacted price controls, rent controls, exorbitant corporate taxes, farm subsidies and harsh taxes on capital gains,<ref>Michael C. Moynihan , "[http://reason.com/archives/2007/08/15/hitlers-handouts Hitler's Handouts: Inside the Nazis' Welfare State]," ''Reason'', August/September 2007</ref> which Hitler denounced as “effortless income.”<ref>Gotz Aly, ''Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State'', tr. Jefferson Chase (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0805087265, p. 65</ref>

By confiscating and redistributing the property of Jews, the Nazis sought what they called “a truly socialist division of personal assets.”<ref>Gotz Aly, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=nDcJDKnVS7EC Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State]'', tr. Jefferson Chase (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0805087265, p. 300</ref> To this end, the Nazis enacted price controls, rent controls, exorbitant corporate taxes, farm subsidies and harsh taxes on capital gains,<ref>Michael C. Moynihan , "[http://reason.com/archives/2007/08/15/hitlers-handouts Hitler's Handouts: Inside the Nazis' Welfare State]," ''Reason'', August/September 2007</ref> which Hitler denounced as “effortless income.”<ref>Gotz Aly, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=nDcJDKnVS7EC Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State]'', tr. Jefferson Chase (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0805087265, p. 65</ref>

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