>I don't recall what Henry said about admiring Hitler's economic policy.
Here's the post:
>Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 11:19:06 -0800
>From: "Henry C.K. Liu" <hliu at mindspring.com>
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: Capitalist support for fascism....
>
>Thanks, Michael.
>Do you, or any one else on the list, have any views on how Hitler
>managed to turn
>in 4 short years a war-torn economy that the Weimar's permissive and
>capitalisti
>policies left in a sorrowful state not much different than the
>Russian economy of
>today, into a full employment, full production economy that was the
>envy of the
>world.
>Like Lynn Turgeon, I was impressed with Silverman, Dan P. 1997. Hitler's
>Economy: Nazi Work Creation Programs, 1933-1936 (Cambridge: Harvard
>University Press). The book suggests that, if you filter out the racist
>elements, Hitler's economic policy were, in effect, a clearer version of
>the New Deal.
Every time this comes up I cite Kalecki, to no apparent effect. You cannot separate the economic and political aspects of Naziism - you can only have full employment under capitalism with vigorous repression of unions and political freedoms.
Doug