Hitler's economics

People try to pretend that Hitler wasn't religious. They also try to pretend he wasn't a Keynesian.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/centralplanning.html

EXCERPT: "Ever since 9-11 and the authoritarian, militarist response, the
political left has warned that Bush is the new Hitler, while the right
decries this kind of rhetoric as irresponsible hyperbole. The truth is that
the left, in making these claims, is more correct than it knows. Hitler,
like FDR, left his mark on Germany and the world by smashing the taboos
against central planning and making big government a seemingly permanent
feature of western economies."

Hitler's economics were, of course, fascism, and, as such, were based more
on altruism - indispensable for promoting and sustaining a dictatorship -
than on economic reality, or any other reality for that matter. What they
were definitely NOT is Capitalism, which requires the rejection of any kind
of government intervention into the economy. Unfortunately, this requires
the recognition of the difference between political power - which is
coercive and based on physical force - and economic power - which is based
on voluntary choice and the rejection of coercion. Altruism, of course, is
an excellent source of rationalizations for coercion "for your own good".
This, of course, is where all dictatorships start. Ayn Rand crusaded
against the myth of Robin Hood, but she was equally against the biblical
myth of Cain and Abel and being "your brother's keeper". This was one of
the basic ideas of the Soviet state that she grew up under.

Leftists, of course, love to claim that corporations, left to themselves,
would be just as coercive as any political dictatorship - sidestepping the
fact that a political system based on banishing the initiation of physical
force would have to be applied to any business just as much as to the
government.

Hitler's economics destroyed Germany, just as they destroyed the Soviet
Union and any other state which practices them.

The fact is that Bush and the Republicans are embracing Keynesian economic
policies not for any "good" they could possibly do for the economy but
because of their altruism, which such policies support and promote. Aided
and abetted by their acceptance of faith as being superior to reason, they
blind themselves willingly to the destruction which such policies inevitably
lead to. But they tell themselves it's for everybody's "own good" in
spite of the fact that what they are doing will accomplish the exact
opposite. If they really wanted to achieve "everybody's own good", they
would institute complete freedom - including laissez-faire Capitalism -
guaranteed by a government dedicated solely to the protection of individual
rights. The fact that they don't makes it clear that their only goal is
destruction for the sake of destruction (the true meaning of sacrifice) and
their only motive is power lust. Bush's faith-based policies will
inevitably lead the United States to the same place the Taliban's policies
led Afghanistan.