Re: Financiers and fascism

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 12, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Marvin Gandall wrote:

> I don't believe Nazi propaganda was, strictly speaking, "anti-
> financier" -
> even in theory.

Hitler, in Mein Kampf:

"Thus, the task of the state toward capital was comparatively simple
and clear; it only had to make certain that capital remain the
handmaiden of the state and not fancy itself the mistress of the
nation. This point of view could then be defined between two
restrictive limits: preservation of a solvent, national, and
independent economy on the one hand, assistance of the social rights
of the workers on the other.... The sharp separation of stock
exchange capital from the national economy offered the possibility of
opposing the internationalization of the German economy without at
the same time menacing the foundations of an independent national
self-maintenance by a struggle against all capital. The development
of Germany was much too clear in my eyes for me not to know that the
hardest battle would have to be fought, not against hostile nations,
but against international capital."