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In any type of socialist state, Nazi or Communist, the government's economic plan is part of the supreme law of the land.
Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian (2005)
What specifically established de facto socialism in Nazi Germany was the introduction of price and wage controls in 1936.
Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian (2005)
The identification of Nazi Germany as a socialist state was one of the many great contributions of Ludwig von Mises.
Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian (2005)
If the individual [in Nazi Germany] is a means to the ends of the State, so too, of course, is his property. Just as he is owned by the State, his property is also owned by the State.
Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian (2005)
The combination of price controls with this further set of controls constitutes the de facto socialization of the economic system. For it means that the government then exercises all of the substantive powers of ownership.
Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian (2005)
The requirements of enforcing a system of price and wage controls shed major light on the totalitarian nature of socialism — most obviously, of course, on that of the German or Nazi variant of socialism, but also on that of Soviet-style socialism as well.
Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian (2005)
The enforcement of price controls requires a government similar to that of Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Russia, in which practically anyone might turn out to be a police spy and in which a secret police exists and has the power to arrest and imprison people.
Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian (2005)