Re: Capitalists and concentration camps

From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sat Sep 30 2000 - 05:49:53 MDT


Ron, its not a matter, I believe, of describing the nazis as capitalist.
Their economic systems were just like Mussolini's fascism. But I feel I need
to at least give history its due, and understand that many people who were of
capitalist bent, did business with the nazis, and were enthusiastic
supporters, and suppliers to the nazi movement; its policies, its
infrastructure, and so forth. Very few of the small shopkeepers, and
industrial barrons, contributed to this system, purely out of fear.

In a message dated 9/29/2000 10:30:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
Dehede011@aol.com writes:

<< No, my understanding of the practices in Nazi Germany were not the result
 of business transactions but the practices of a National Socialist
 Government. Soldiers and policemen rounded up those prisoners, placed them
 in custody and either killed outright or worked them to death.
     As to Adam Smith, I am not aware that he ever described slavery as a
 capitalist process. However I think it is very unfair to have anyone define
 capitalism other than its advocates. Otherwise we end in a situation like
 the one today where you are defining the practices of Nazi Germany as
 Capitalism when in fact none of the advocates of Capitalism has ever
promoted
 any such conduct.
     The only people running Nazi Germany were people describing themselves
as
 socialist.
 Ron H. >>



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