[D66] neoliberale nazis
Antid Oto
protocosmos66 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 20 18:24:11 CEST 2012
pseudoniem Oto blijft gewoon ageren tegen betweterige dogmatische
Keynesianen... daar ga jij gelukkig niet over.
On 20-09-12 16:44, Henk Vreekamp wrote:
> Inderdaad Bert,
> Dogmatici en sektariers herken je vaak aan hun historische en
> ideologische blindheid. Dus - vrolijk op weg en terug naar de gemengde
> economie, liefst zonder pseudoniem Oto (wie was dat ook weer?).
> hv,u
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Bert Bakker <mailto:bertbakker7 at gmail.com>
> *To:* informele D66 discussielijst <mailto:d66 at tuxtown.net>
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 20, 2012 11:13 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [D66] neoliberale nazis
>
> Als dat de overweging is kunnen we beter ook de kinderbijslag
> afschaffen. En de sociale ziektekostenverzekering/ziekenfonds.
> Allemaal door de Duitsers hier gebracht...
>
>
>
> 2012/9/20 Antid Oto <protocosmos66 at gmail.com
> <mailto:protocosmos66 at gmail.com>>
>
>
> http://www.ub.es/graap/nazi.pdf
>
>
>
>
> Edited on Wed Sep-13-06 10:22 AM by swag
> PDF of Germa Bell's article published in "Journal of Economic
> Perspectives"
>
> Excerpted and discussed at Economist's View.
>
> Against the Mainstream: Nazi Privatization in 1930s Germany,
> by Germa Bel:
>
> I. Introduction
>
> Privatization of large parts of the public sector has been one
> of the defining policies of the last quarter of the twentieth
> century. The privatizations in Chile and the United Kingdom,
> implemented beginning in the 1970s and 1980s, are usually
> considered the first privatization policies in modern history
> (e.g. Yergin and Stanislaw, 1998, p.115). A few researchers
> find earlier instances. Some economic analyses of
> privatization (e.g. Megginson, 2005, p. 15) identify partial
> sales of state-owned firms implemented in Adenauer's Germany
> in the late 1950s and early 1960s as the first large-scale
> privatization program, and others argue that, although
> confined to just one sector, the denationalization of steel
> and coal in the United Kingdom during the early 1950s should
> be considered the first privatization (e.g. Burk, 1988;
> Megginson and Netter, 2003, p. 31).
>
> None of the contemporary economic analyses of privatization
> takes into account an earlier and important experience: the
> privatization policy applied by the Germany's National
> Socialist Party (Nazi Party). The lack of reference to this
> early privatization experience in the modern literature on
> privatization is consistent with its invisibility in either
> the recent literature on the Germany economy in the twentieth
> century (e.g. Braun, 2003) or the history of Germany's
> publicly owned enterprise (e.g. Wengenroth, 2000).
> Occasionally, some authors mention the re-privatization of
> banks with no additional comment or analysis (e.g. Barkai,
> 1990, p. 216; James, 1995, p. 291). Other works, like Hardach
> (1980, p. 66) and Buchheim and Scherner (2005, p. 17), mention
> the sale of state ownership in Nazi Germany only to support
> the idea that the Nazi government opposed widespread state
> ownership of firms. However, they do not carry out any
> analysis of these privatizations.
>
> . . .
>
> VII. Conclusions Although modern economic literature usually
> fails to notice it, the Nazi government in 1930s Germany
> undertook a wide scale privatization policy. The government
> sold public ownership in several state-owned firms in
> different sectors. In addition to this, delivery of some
> public services previously produced by the public sector was
> transferred to the private sector, mainly to organizations
> within the Nazi Party.
>
> Ideological motivations do not explain Nazi privatization. On
> the contrary, political motivations were important. The Nazi
> government may have used privatization as a tool to improve
> its relationship with big industrialists and to increase their
> support for Nazi policies. Privatization was also likely used
> to enhance more general political support to Nazi party.
> Finally, financial motivations did play a central role in Nazi
> privatization. The proceeds from privatization in 1934-37 had
> relevant fiscal significance: Not less than 1.37 per cent of
> total fiscal revenues were obtained from selling shares in
> public firms. Moreover, the government avoided including a
> huge expenditure in the budget by using outside-of-the-budget
> tools to finance the public services franchised to Nazi
> organizations.
>
> Nazi economic policy in the middle thirties was against the
> mainstream in several dimensions. The huge increase in public
> expenditure programs was unique, as was the increase in the
> armament programs, and together they heavily constrained the
> budget. To finance this exceptional expenditure, exceptional
> policies were put in place. Privatization was just one among
> them. It was systematically implemented in a period in which
> no other country did so, and this drove Nazi policy against
> the mainstream, which flowed against privatization of state
> ownership or public services until the last quarter of the
> twentieth century.
>
>
>
> On 19-09-12 20:20, Antid Oto wrote:
>
> Wat blijkt: privatisering is uitgevonden door de Nazis!
> Neoliberale
> ideologie met de roots in het Nazisme. Een neoliberaal is
> in feite dus
> gewoon een ordinaire Nazi...
>
>
> New post on An und für sich
>
>
> A Fun Fact about Privatization: With Scattered Reflections
> on "the State"
> by Adam Kotsko
>
> James Meek's LRB article about electricity privatization
> in the UK
> includes an interesting tidbit:
>
> How did we get here? In 1981, with inflation and
> unemployment at 10
> per cent plus, with the recently elected Conservative
> government forced
> to yield to the demands of the miners, public spending
> cuts provoking
> general outrage and Thatcher's prime ministerial career
> seemingly doomed
> to a swift, ignominious end, a 38-year-old economist from
> Birmingham
> University called Stephen Littlechild was working on ways
> to realise an
> esoteric idea that had been much discussed in radical Tory
> circles:
> privatisation. Privatisation was not a Thatcher patent.
> The Spanish
> economist Germà Bel traces the origins of the word to the
> German word
> Reprivatisierung, first used in English in 1936 by the Berlin
> correspondent of the Economist, writing about Nazi
> economic policy. In
> 1943, in an analysis of Hitler's programme in the
> Quarterly Journal of
> Economics, the word 'privatisation' entered the academic
> literature for
> the first time. The author, Sidney Merlin, wrote that the
> Nazi Party
> 'facilitates the accumulation of private fortunes and
> industrial empires
> by its foremost members and collaborators through
> "privatisation" and
> other measures, thereby intensifying centralisation of
> economic affairs
> and government in an increasingly narrow group that may
> for all
> practical purposes be termed the national socialist elite'.
>
> That's right: privatization of government functions and
> state-owned
> industries was literally invented by the Nazis.
>
> This reminds me of something I've been meaning to blog
> about for months.
> Read more of this post
> Adam Kotsko | Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at 7:27 am |
> Categories:
> economics, fascism, Foucault, politics | URL:
> http://wp.me/p2IRQ-2dn
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