Don't forget, Mussolini made the trains run on time. : )
BTW my congressman reportedly once refered to Bob Taft's supporters as the Hitler Youth; a little Nazi analogy. He probably should have refered to them as corporatists---let's educate people.
Fraternally, Tom
Doug Henwood wrote:
> michael at ecst.csuchico.edu wrote:
>
> >Maybe I am missing something. How does saying that Hitler's civilian jobs
> >program was fairly successful, in anyway justify the reprehensible actions
> >of the Nazis. I have read the book. Neither the author nor Lynn showed
> >any great love for the Nazis.
>
> Fascism can tolerate full employment because of the repression of labor
> (not to mention racial and sexual minorities, etc.). You can't just look at
> the full employment policies in isolation, as Lynn did, and I assume the
> author of the book did. And you sure concede some credibility to the
> Hayekian critique of Keynesianism by ignoring this little fact.
>
> Doug