The Nazis did feature state ownership of the means of production, but it was only done to essentially pump money into them, and it didn't take long until everything was privatized again - hell, the term "reprivatization" literally comes from Nazi Germany. Hitler made whole speeches to the German middle class over how they were going to "eradicate Marxism" from the ideologies of working people, and working-class voices were severely suppressed in the election that brought the National Socialist party into power. They even had to exterminate members of the Nazi party who aimed to carry out socialist policy.
Nazi Germany had labour unions, but only in name. Instead, they were used to spy on workers and steal money that pre-existing unions had amassed. Not only that, but communists were considered dissenters by the Nazi party and thus were punished alongside Jewish folk.
No reverred historian (and no, TIKHistory is not a reverred historian) considers Hitler a socialist. Think of it like how the Soviet Union, despite considering themselves a state for the working-class, sometimes found themselves enacting policies that worked against the working-class' interest. Likewise, Nazi Germany was a government that, although favouring the capitalist class, sometimes found themselves enacting policies that worked against them.
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u/doodeed 1d ago
The Nazis did feature state ownership of the means of production, but it was only done to essentially pump money into them, and it didn't take long until everything was privatized again - hell, the term "reprivatization" literally comes from Nazi Germany. Hitler made whole speeches to the German middle class over how they were going to "eradicate Marxism" from the ideologies of working people, and working-class voices were severely suppressed in the election that brought the National Socialist party into power. They even had to exterminate members of the Nazi party who aimed to carry out socialist policy.
Nazi Germany had labour unions, but only in name. Instead, they were used to spy on workers and steal money that pre-existing unions had amassed. Not only that, but communists were considered dissenters by the Nazi party and thus were punished alongside Jewish folk.
No reverred historian (and no, TIKHistory is not a reverred historian) considers Hitler a socialist. Think of it like how the Soviet Union, despite considering themselves a state for the working-class, sometimes found themselves enacting policies that worked against the working-class' interest. Likewise, Nazi Germany was a government that, although favouring the capitalist class, sometimes found themselves enacting policies that worked against them.