The Washington Post's claim that the Nazis were not socialists is more ahistorical than the contrary claim. As F. A. Hayek wrote in 1933: “National Socialism is a genuine socialist movement, whose leading ideas are the final fruit of the anti-liberal tendencies which have been steadily gaining ground in Germany since the later part of the Bismarckian era … The collectivist and anti-individualistic character of German National Socialism is not much modified by the fact that it is not a proletarian but middle class socialism." Under the Nazi regime, as Walter Eucken (1948) noted, "more and more branches of production, and even the distribution of labour supplies and consumers’ goods, came under the orders of the central planning authorities." To the WaPo writer, by contrast, the National Socialists could not have been socialists simply because they were not Marxian socialists or democratic socialists. (Please note that I am not defending MTG or anything that she said, just criticizing the superficiality of the WaPo piece.)
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