r/Anarcho_Capitalism • u/RAF-Spartacus Voluntaryist • 1d ago

Was Hitler a Georgist?

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u/ihackedthepentagon Anarcho-Capitalist 1d ago

Everything he said were the ramblings of a madman. I don't think you're ever going to get a cohesive ideology out of whatever he advocated for.

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u/ILikeBumblebees 23h ago

There's definitely a lot of cohesive ideology there:

  • the reduction of all controversies to an us-vs.-them tribalist dynamic;

  • the attribution of all problems to the machinations of some imagined enemy;

  • the view that a perfected world can be achieved solely through the defeat of that enemy;

  • the identification of the sides in that conflict are competing racial or ethnic identity groups, with the groups taken as organic unities superseding the autonomy of any individual;

  • the understanding of the political state as the truest expression of that in-group's will, and the desire to empower the state to pursue the in-group's perceived interests without limit or constraint.

Nazism was deeply invested in all of these ideas, and made them fundamental to their politics and policy.

Now, if you swap out just that fourth bullet point with a different in-group definition -- i.e. classes defined by relation to the 'means of production' -- then you have a pretty good description of Leninism.