Hitler and Keynes are not that different, and they both get embraced in their socialist economic views by present Western "democracies" - planned economies would be the more correct term. I have prwached since years that the Third Reich was a socialist tyranny,a dnthat it is one of the greast prpaganda coups in history ever that the Sovjets managed and the left today still manages to maintain the illusion that they as "left" politicians are the oppositeand the curing antidot to the right-ness of the Nazis. Socialists and Nazis are in principle chuldren of the same spirit, one and the same thing, the Nazis only focussed on racism against Jews where socialists focus on envy and defamation of those who have more than others to make it easiert to expropriate them. Plundeirng and exproprzating they both did, just their alibis were and are different: Jews here, and generally rich people (Jewish or not) there.
https://mises.org/library/hitlers-economics
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Perhaps the worst part of these policies is that they are inconceivable without a leviathan state, exactly as Keynes said. A government big enough and powerful enough to manipulate aggregate demand is big and powerful enough to violate people's civil liberties and attack their rights in every other way. Keynesian (or Hitlerian) policies unleash the sword of the state on the whole population. Central planning, even in its most petty variety, and freedom are incompatible.
Ever since 9/11 and the authoritarian, militarist response, the political left has warned that Bush is the new Hitler, while the right decries this kind of rhetoric as irresponsible hyperbole. The truth is that the left, in making these claims, is more correct than it knows. Hitler, like FDR, left his mark on Germany and the world by smashing the taboos against central planning and making big government a seemingly permanent feature of Western economies.
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People should fight without remorse and tear down any such state. Bot they just don't do it, accept to obvey in obedient servility and
once again prefer to be led
once again into the next incarnation of always one and the same basic pattern of disaster
once again. We have career politicians not because they are so clever - we have them because the plebs is so dumb.
Thats maybe the best diagnosis explaining both the the hybris and the doom of the West, but many other nations in the world as well: its always about "
once again".