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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.

— George Reisman Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian (2005)

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