Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 18, 2011

leftwingpatriot,.I did find the book online via the Australian Gutenberg Project. Let’s see what i can find on short order. .Chapter 10 (“Why The Second Reich Failed”), among other things, hits the root of Hitler’s complaint against the capitalists: corporations (“joint stock companies”). To him, they represent “de-personalization of property ownership.” They also allow foreign interests to seize German commerce, such as the German State Railway, which apparently was in the process of being privatized: “As I write these words, success is attending the general attack on the German State Railways which are now to be turned over to international capitalists.”.The second volume doesn’t have much on commerce – but it does have an entire chapter on labor unions. The phrase “National Socialist Trades Union” appears 8 times – it appears Hitler wanted to create a single nationalized labor union. Considering the reason private-sector unions exist – to negotiate wages, non-wage compensation, and workplace rules, that’s a big hunk of intervention. .The Wikipedia article on Fascism states that Hitler’s economic philosophy was never clearly defined, although his positions on unions (they were outlawed) and securities trading were obvious. Hitler would become a major-league market interventionist by default, just because of his idolization of military might. (That, the monarchy and the civil service were the three pillars of the reich, per MK.) The Nazis had to divert significant resources from consumer goods to accomplish that feat..As i recall, the Reich would determine what sort of automobile woudl become available to the Volk.