re: #159 Nyet

Perhaps you could read the book.

evans specifies the luxury cruise benefit as the only tangible addition that the nazis made to the social welfare policies already available to the german working class at the time he came to power. of course, hitler also banned all existing labor unions

but as i said before, social welfare programs of some kind are literally universal today, and i don’t accept the existence of them as constituting a socialist state or an identification of a government with socialism…

…unless you want to say that the main goal of karl marx was to bring tax funded retirement pensions, health insurance, and unemployment compensation to the workers of the world, and that therefore socialism has triumphed everywhere

no, the real demarcation between industrialized democracies with social insurance programs and socialist states lies in the ownership and operation of industry and food production by the state, and the abolition of private companies

the soviet union and communist china implemented ‘dictionary’ socialism. the nazis did not.

bismark introduced significant new social welfare programs in germany. the nazis did not