So I said Sweden isn't a socialist state and you appear to be in agreement in that you think it is a fascist state. Which you then conflate with socialism.
You can't be reasoned with. You just make shit up as you go along.
Fundamentally, socialism is a system of producing commodities that distinguishes itself from the capitalist system by abolishing private ownership of the means of production.
Shifting control of the means of production to the state gets us no closer to socialism because the means are still privately held ie fascism.
And there is a reason fascism took hold in Europe around the time of WWI. It was a capitalist reaction to the socialist groundswell that was taking root. The same happened here, though it didn't require such extreme measures to contain.
Wrong. If the state controls the means of production, then they are not privatel held. Then you have socialism. Fascism is a form of socialism.
Hugo Boss was a bankrupt German clothing manufacturer prior to the Nazi reign. He joined the party and began supplying uniforms to the Nazis.
He owned the means of production including wage labor.
Was he a capitalist or a socialist?
/——/ Neither one. He was a pragmatic person who didn’t want to end up in a concentration camp. Same thing about Ferdinand Porsche who was anti Nazi but Hitler put a gun to his head and said build me a bad ass tank. The results? A Porsche Tiger Tank.
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Ok derp. Whatever you say.
Since being engaged by the Nazi authorities in building the
Volksauto, Porsche was praised as the
Great German Engineer.
[5] Hitler considered Czechs
subhuman[10] and Porsche was in 1934 urged to apply for German citizenship.
[5] A few days later, Porsche indeed filed a declaration giving up the Czechoslovak citizenship at a Czechoslovak consulate in
Stuttgart.
[17] In 1937, Porsche joined the
National Socialist German Workers' Party[18] (becoming member no. 5,643,287
[19]) as well as the
SS.
[20] By 1938, Porsche was using the SS as security members and drivers at his factory, and later set up a special unit called
SS Sturmwerk Volkswagen.
[19] In 1942, Porsche reached the rank of
SS-Oberführer.
[21] During the war, Porsche was further decorated with the
SS-Ehrenring and awarded the
War Merit Cross.
[22] As the war progressed his proposed solutions to new developments became more complex and Ferdinand Porsche gained a reputation in certain circles as a "mad scientist" especially with
Albert Speer (mainly due to his new found affinity for "pointy" designs).
[23]
