Who’s a Socialist?
June 3, 2019
Why is it that even the most vocal opponents of socialism are unwilling to include Adolf Hitler’s regime as socialistic? He named his party the “National Socialist German Workers Party” [shortened to “Nazi”]. The implications of this “oversight” can be found in my earlier LRC article “The Hitler Test.”
Butler Shaffer was Professor Emeritus at Southwestern University School of Law. He is the author of In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918–1938, Calculated Chaos: Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival, and Boundaries of Order. His latest book is The Wizards of Ozymandias.
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