Can you tell me exactly what you have read? This could come in handy.
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Books on Fascist Economies?
After reading some excerpts of Nazi Germany's economy by economic historians, I was floored at how much it was really capitalism on steroids! I had always read that this was so but I did not realize how blatantly it was true. A lot of this history has been buried and distorted to make it seem like Germany's economy was "socialist". I mean some of the small stuff I've read just seemed like a right libertarians dream. No joke. Exploitation to add value to German investment was crazy.
Any books or articles online that go into this subject? Thanks.
Can you tell me exactly what you have read? This could come in handy.
Excerpts from Ian Kershaw The Nazi Dictatorship which were really excerpts from British Marxist Timothy Mason. The rest of the stuff on Wiki. Mason argued against the notion that Nazi Germany was just following the dictates of capitalism and that the Nazi State had autonomy, but from the other stuff I have read, this doesnt seem to be the case. According to Marxists from East Germany, if Mason is correct in his thesis about political primacy than all Marxist social analysis is wrong.
Pathfinder has some books, like Big Business and Fascism
"The intellectual forces of the workers and peasants are growing and getting stronger in their fight to overthrow the bourgeoisie and their accomplices, the educated classes, the lackeys of capital, who consider themselves the brains of the nation. In fact they are not its brains but its shit."
—Lenin
"I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy."
—Albert Einstein
Tooze's Wages of Destruction is the definitive single-volume work on the development of the Nazi economy. Highly recommended
March at the head of the ideas of your century and those ideas will follow and sustain you. March behind them and they will drag you along. March against them and they will overthrow you.
Napoleon III
Are they Marxist bent? I am looking for a book that shows how the economy was still serving the interest of capital.
this is the best book on fascism
Thanks. But wasn't it written before Germany started WWII? Timothy Mason argues that during the War the German State assumed control of the economy and that political primacy ruled over the dictates of capitalism
Well war is war, especially when your losing, but durin the war you have the whole military upkeep and expansion, no to mention he looting of the slave nations, so isn't that less fascism, and more fascism at war?
"The intellectual forces of the workers and peasants are growing and getting stronger in their fight to overthrow the bourgeoisie and their accomplices, the educated classes, the lackeys of capital, who consider themselves the brains of the nation. In fact they are not its brains but its shit."
—Lenin
"I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy."
—Albert Einstein
That may be so, but it was true in non-fascist states as well, even in WWI.
Political primacy, according to some East German Historians, would negate Marxist social analysis.
It's Fascism and Big Business. The author is Daniel Guerin if anyone wants to look it up.
"Getting a job, finding a mate, having a place to live, finding a creative outlet. Life is a war of attrition. You have to stay active on all fronts. It's one thing after another. I've tried to control a chaotic universe. And it's a losing battle. But I can't let go. I've tried, but I can't." - Harvey Pekar
Its a false premise. The state does not rule over the bourgeoisie and the bourgeoisie does not dictate to the state. Instead they are one and the same. Did Nazi Germany see an increase in political control over the economy? Yes, but just who comprised the state/party - the bourgeoisie. Whose interests was the economy run for - the bourgeoisie. Talk of "political primacy" is well wide of the mark
Tooze's work is more of a chronology of the Nazi economy, certainly not rooted in class analysis, but it contains the most accurate (if occasionally controversial) depiction of the German economy published to date
March at the head of the ideas of your century and those ideas will follow and sustain you. March behind them and they will drag you along. March against them and they will overthrow you.
Napoleon III
