Why did Hitler kill communists and tolerate capitalists?
Hitler was a socialist. Do you even know the name of his party without looking it up? I doubt it. And, OBTW, HE personally named it.
Hitler killed communist apparatchiks and socialist nomenklatura mostly because they were in rival political parties. Not because of their beliefs but because they were a political threat to his party.
You people are just simply stupid.
socialism is when the government owns the means of production. communism is when there is no government.
Do you know what a 'soviet' is? I doubt that one, too.
This is like reading 3rd graders debate Relativity
socialism is when the government owns the means of production. communism is when there is no government.
Who owned the means of production in Nazi Germany?
It wasn't the socialists.
The Nazis. The Nazis controlled everything. There is a famous, or infamous story of Hitler saying "I don't care if you own the cow, as long as I own you".
The Nazis were very much for the appearance of private ownership, but they made it clear they controlled the owners. Yes, you can own that factory, but you build what we want you to build, and the way we want you to build it.
It was very much a socialist system. As the name "National Socialists" implied.
You are absolutely correct: "Nationalized socialism."
All industry and production was for the support of the state. Industrialists could make good money but they were directed by the government to manufacture mainly certain things needed for Hitler's military expansionism.
We spend more on military than the rest of the world combined. That’s all government spending. A lot. Trillions can’t even be accounted for. So shady.
What are we manufacturing?
Yeah, but there are a number of reasons for that.
First:
If you think about any product in the economy... any product at all.... The latest and greatest product, is always the most expensive.
The latest sports car, is always the most expensive. The latest Smart Phone, is always the most expensive model.
The top of the line anything, is always the most expensive.
The biggest reasons is because the companies have to recoup their Research and Design costs. You have to pay a higher price for the latest version, because they have to make up the millions lost on the R&D for it.
The second reason is simply that the older design has simply been around longer. The longer a design is around, the more they are able to find cheaper ways of manufacturing that design.
The cost of producing the materials needed for a given product, tend to decline over time.
So how does that explain the difference in cost between the US military, verses other nations?
Well, the US always tries to be ahead of the curve, relative to the military strength of other countries. We try to have the best weapons, armor, vehicles, planes, tanks, and so on.
But as I just pointed out, that means paying the high price.
What a ton of people seem to have no idea about, is that we sell weapons to a large part of the world. Do you think we are selling them, the best weapons we have?
No. Of course not. We are not selling other countries our F-35 stealth fighter jets. We're selling them our F-15s. Why? Because we want to have the edge.
But of course that means they are buying older planes at a lower cost, while we have expense top quality planes, at a high cost.
They are buying the old products that are cheap. We're buying the high quality products that are new.
It would be the equivalent argument to me buying 10 year old cars (which is what I do. My current car is a 2003), and you buying a new car, and then complaining "why is Andy paying a fraction of the cost for transportation?!".
The rest of the world isn't doing research and design on their weapons, and paying top dollar for the newest stuff to have an edge in combat. We, being the super power of the world, are.
However, there is yet another reason....
And this is so obvious, that I'm always a little baffled by people who even ask why our military spending is so much higher than that of specifically Europe.
Much of Europe.... not all... but much Europe spends a ton less on military and defense, than the US....... Because we defend them.
There was a few years ago now, a couple of Russian military forces that crossed into Finland space. I believe one was a submarine, and the other an aircraft.
Finland started doing drills, and I was honestly, a bit shocked by how badly prepared the Finnish forces were. Sub-standard weapons, limited supplies, lack of vehicles.... I was amazed.
Now don't get me wrong, they only have 5 million people in their country. I wasn't expecting a mass of star wars storm troopers.... but they were barely equipped. And the first thing they did, was bump up military spending.
This is why Trump is so hated around certain parts of the world. Because he's been saying it's time for Europe and Japan, and South Korea, to start defending themselves.
And honestly I find it a little hypocritical on the left-wing that some are complaining Japan is beefing up its military, and so is South Korea, and so are parts of Europe.... because of Trump.... but then complaining we are spending so much on our military.
Because if you want all of these countries to stay passive and without a powerful military, then we have to continue to defend all these countries, which requires us to spend more on our military.
If you want us to cut back on the military, then we can't keep defending all these nations, and that will result in those nations building up their military... which by the way will make some of them hate us. Because Europe has loved having us there, so they don't have to fund a powerful military themselves.
