@elonmusk Sub-replacement fertility cuts carbon emissions, preserves natural resources, and protects biodiversity. Economically, labor shortages drive up wages and accelerate automation, while families benefit from cheaper housing and higher educational investments per child. Not that bad.
@Azrael44550250@TheAliceSmith Free-market libertarianism isn't the only right-wing ideology. Absolute monarchs, and fascists are both right, and they all use heavy state intervention. Fascism is right-wing corporatism, not socialism. Because Absolute Monarchy’s use state intervention are they now socialist?
@Azrael44550250@TheAliceSmith Cartels are literally private businesses colluding for private profit. Using a dictator to enforce a cartel is right-wing corporatism, not socialism. You can't invent a new definition of socialism just because you don't like the reality of fascism.
@Azrael44550250@TheAliceSmith A lack of a "free market" doesn't automatically mean socialism. Enforcing corporate cartels and protecting private profits is the definition of crony capitalism and right-wing corporatism. Socialism means worker ownership, which fascism explicitly banned.
@Azrael44550250@TheAliceSmith Fascism and National Socialism are both far-right. Fascist Italy still built its entire system on strict nationalism and corporate cartels, not "shared resources." Comparing a voluntary egalitarian Kibbutz to fascism is historically illiterate.
@Azrael44550250@TheAliceSmith A Kibbutz is a voluntary, egalitarian, worker-owned cooperative. Fascism is an authoritarian, corporate-owned racial dictatorship. They are literal opposites. Modern companies with private owners, and stock markets definitely existed in the 1930s, where did that info come from?
@Azrael44550250@TheAliceSmith Government control ≠ socialism. By that logic, absolute monarchs and pharaohs were socialists. Socialism requires worker ownership. Fascism crushed labor unions and preserved private corporate wealth, Mussolini and Hitler defined fascism as the destruction of left-wing politics
@Azrael44550250@TheAliceSmith The book's subtitle literally says "Doing Business Under Fascism," not socialism.
The author wrote it to expose how the Nazi regime protected wealthy corporate capitalists while choking out small businesses. Totalitarian control over a private market is fascism, not socialism.
@Azrael44550250@TheAliceSmith 1It was privatization. Big banks and railroads were sold to private owners like Krupp, who kept the profits.
2High taxes happen in all wartime nations. German corporations still made record profits.
3Junkers was targeted because he was a pacifist, not for socialism.
@Azrael44550250@TheAliceSmith Mass privatization, protecting corporate profits, and preserving private property are not things "any authoritarian regime" does. They are the exact opposite of what socialist regimes did. That is why Hitler is classified as far-right.
@Azrael44550250@TheAliceSmith Your argument is literally
(If Stalin committed a crime, any other dictator who committed that same crime is now socialist. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were authoritarian, Authoritarianism is a method of governance, not an economic system.
@elonapproved69@TheAliceSmith The 19th-century Southern Democrats who defended slavery were conservative agrarian elites protecting their private property rights—the exact opposite of a leftist platform.