Bush To Propose $3b For Workers

[Michael Perelman]

I am responding off list.  Hitler tried not to make the same mistake, but
that was not enough to win the war.  I did not mean that equality was the
only factor in determining victory.

On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 08:33:27PM -0400, Michael Pollak wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Michael Perelman wrote:
> 
> > What contradiction?  Do you meant that Germany lost despite Hitler's
> > lesson from WW I?  If so, I think that other forces are necessary for
> > victory than just social policy.
> 
> I mean that the the first paragraph and the ones that follow seem to be
> saying that German wartime inequality was worse than British or French,
> but the last paragraph seems to be saying that the Nazis made huge efforts
> to make sure that didn't happen, and in fact succeeded when it came to
> wages.  So what seems to be missing is an explanation of why their
> measures not only failed, but failed so spectacularly that countries that
> didn't take such measures ended up with much more equal distributions.
> 
> It's probably just an artifact of being ripped from context.
> 
> Michael
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Michael Perelman
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