re: #332 Bill Dalasio

Again, thanks for the reply. Whether Krupp, and many other German businesses were happy to go along with the plan does not define it as either socialist nor non-socialist. Neither does the disposition of profits. The essence of the question is where was the nexus of economic decision-making, in the hands of business owners or in the hands of the state. The decision makers were, in fact, in Berlin, within the German government. Moreover, in response to your question regarding the “Reich government making money off of what they made”, one need only consider the Herman Goering Works to see that, in fact, they did make the money off of what was made.

But they didn’t make all the money, or even most of it. Most of the money was made by non-governmental business owners.

There were no such creatures in the Soviet Union.