The "uber" capitalists were happy with Hitler, as were numerous people opposed to the growing threat of Marxism, until they understood more about his regime. Hitler was a mad man Jake- He murdered people for the color of their skin or the ancestry of their birth. AGAIN, your point?
I refuse to believe Jake is as clueless as his posts. I still believe he plays devil's advocate here, but damn that must get really tedious after awhile.
Pure socialism takes complete control of the economy, generally through totalitarian means.
Facism, of which Hitler's Third Reich embraced, controlled the corporations by installing or controlling the CEO's/owners of those businesses. While the owners could still profit fro their businesses, they were required to use their property and production in the 'national interest' as dictated by the government authorities. Those who resisted were appropriated and run by the State. Pure socialism replaces the free market with a governent run economy. Facism gives the illusion of a free market capitalistic system but is setting and enforcing all prices and wages behind the scenes.
You describe yourself perfectly, foxfyre. You are not clueless but playing a game. Hitler was not a socialist. He killed them. He played up to capitalists until he controlled them. Fascism, as practiced by Mussolini, for that matter, abhorred socialism.
We are now living in an economy that is fascistic, interaction of government and business. Both parties are fascist in that matter. Both parties are statist. The difference for me is that Romney will not playing hardcore leftist statist but will try to work as a right wing statist with businesses. That is one of the reasons I am voting for him.
But to the real point: we are not going back to small time government, we are not going to allow libertarian nonsense to run our government and society, and we are not going to allow the very far right militia to run anything.
You guys are clueless if you think any of that will ever happen.
You are out of the mainstream, and you have to come back to it, not it come to you.
Shall we add reading dysfunction to your other charming attributes, Jake? Perhaps you overlooked where I drew a sharp distinction between socialism and fascism? And I suggest you re-read Mein Kampf and restudy what facism is before you declare Hitler to be the savior of capitalism.