• bigbologna [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    the people who came into power to stop the spread of communism, claimed to have "taken 'socialism' from the socialists" and repeatedly stressed they were pro-capitalism, directly collaborated with capitalists to further the capitalists' interests, are generally regarded as the cause of the coining of the word "privatization", and sent anyone left of Hindenburg to concentration camps were "genuinely socialist-ish" :galaxy-brain:

      • bigbologna [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Marxism has no right to disguise itself as socialism. Socialism, unlike Marxism, does not repudiate private property.

        • Interview with George Sylvester Viereck, 1923

        We National Socialists see in private property a higher level of human economic development that according to the differences in performance controls the management of what has been accomplished enabling and guaranteeing the advantage of a higher standard of living for everyone.

        • Speech made at the Reichstag (21 May 1935)

        I absolutely insist on protecting private property. It is natural and salutary that the individual should be inspired by the wish to devote a part of the income from his work to building up and expanding a family estate. Suppose the estate consists of a factory. I regard it as axiomatic, in the ordinary way, that this factory will be better run by one of the members of the family that it would be by a State functionary—providing, of course, that the family remains healthy. In this sense, we must encourage private initiative.

        • A private statement made on March 24, 1942

        These admittedly aren't like perfect "I am pro-capitalist" quotes but this is as close to that as you can get.