• BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    This isnt accurate.

    All capitalist governments “pick winners” within their systems to some degree. That just isn’t an important or relevant issue.

    Jewish businesses and their wealth were targeted, but that wasn’t an attack on capitalism and markets - it was a genocide!

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      Capitalist governments might pick winners, but it is general in the context of those enterprises providing support for their other enterprises.

      And it wasn’t a genocide yet when a Jewish owned business got turned over to an Aryan. This was a fascist government choosing winners and losers. Those winners would choose to support the Nazis.

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        You’re wrong. I’m not going to elaborate any further because i feel you have taken the discussion to gross and unconscionable place.

        You seem to care more about the violation of “free markets” that don’t and have never existed, than the pointless eradication of millions of human lives.

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          I don’t care about free markets. I’m just noting that tyranny and oppression come from more than just free markets. In some cases, tyranny via fascism comes from a promise to put free markets under state control.

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            That is just wildly incorrect. Fascism does not make the promise to put free markets under state control, more importantly, none of the fascist societies put free markets under state control.

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              Fascism does not make the promise to put free markets under state control

              It does when the politics of the situation suits it. This is how Mussolini made the trains run on time. And as I said before, the Nazis exerted state control over local businesses by taking away some businesses from Jews and giving them to loyal Aryans. State control over the economy is exerted, just not to the benefit of everyone.

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                  But it isn’t just moving around the capitalists. It is choosing the winners and losers. It is then giving state power to the winners and using state power to punish the losers.

                  And it is doing a racism, and it may not do what the politicians say, but it is a change of the political and economic order.