re: #337 Bill Dalasio

But, again, the crux of my point is that whether Krupp and other industrialists reaped the benefits of policies in Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy is largely irrelevant to the question of whether those policies were socialist. Local apparatchicks reaped tremendous benefits from the Soviet system. Are you saying that the Soviet Union was somehow or another not socialist?

Local apparatchicks reaped what they reaped from state-owned companies because they were members of the Communist Party; local brownshirts did not reap any industrial profits BECAUSE they were members of the Nazi Party, but only if they already held part ownership in what remained private companies.