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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Inderdaad Bert,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>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?).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>hv,u</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=bertbakker7@gmail.com href="mailto:bertbakker7@gmail.com">Bert
Bakker</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=d66@tuxtown.net
href="mailto:d66@tuxtown.net">informele D66 discussielijst</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, September 20, 2012 11:13
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [D66] neoliberale
nazis</DIV>
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face=Arial></FONT><BR></DIV>Als dat de overweging is kunnen we beter ook de
kinderbijslag afschaffen. En de sociale ziektekostenverzekering/ziekenfonds.
Allemaal door de Duitsers hier gebracht...
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>2012/9/20 Antid Oto <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
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class=gmail_quote><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT><FONT size=2
face=Arial></FONT><BR><A href="http://www.ub.es/graap/nazi.pdf"
target=_blank>http://www.ub.es/graap/nazi.<U></U>pdf</A><BR><BR><BR>
<BR><BR>Edited on Wed Sep-13-06 10:22 AM by swag<BR>PDF
of Germa Bell's article published in "Journal of Economic
Perspectives"<BR><BR>Excerpted and discussed at Economist's
View.<BR><BR>Against the Mainstream: Nazi Privatization in 1930s Germany, by
Germa Bel:<BR><BR>I. Introduction<BR><BR>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).<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>. . .<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.
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<DIV class=h5><BR><BR><BR>On 19-09-12 20:20, Antid Oto wrote:<BR>
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class=gmail_quote>Wat blijkt: privatisering is uitgevonden door de Nazis!
Neoliberale<BR>ideologie met de roots in het Nazisme. Een neoliberaal is
in feite dus<BR>gewoon een ordinaire Nazi...<BR><BR><BR>New post on An und
für sich<BR><BR><BR>A Fun Fact about Privatization: With Scattered
Reflections on “the State”<BR>by Adam Kotsko<BR><BR>James Meek's LRB
article about electricity privatization in the UK<BR>includes an
interesting tidbit:<BR><BR> How did we get here? In
1981, with inflation and unemployment at 10<BR>per cent plus, with the
recently elected Conservative government forced<BR>to yield to the demands
of the miners, public spending cuts provoking<BR>general outrage and
Thatcher’s prime ministerial career seemingly doomed<BR>to a swift,
ignominious end, a 38-year-old economist from Birmingham<BR>University
called Stephen Littlechild was working on ways to realise an<BR>esoteric
idea that had been much discussed in radical Tory
circles:<BR>privatisation. Privatisation was not a Thatcher patent. The
Spanish<BR>economist Germà Bel traces the origins of the word to the
German word<BR>Reprivatisierung, first used in English in 1936 by the
Berlin<BR>correspondent of the Economist, writing about Nazi economic
policy. In<BR>1943, in an analysis of Hitler’s programme in the Quarterly
Journal of<BR>Economics, the word ‘privatisation’ entered the academic
literature for<BR>the first time. The author, Sidney Merlin, wrote that
the Nazi Party<BR>‘facilitates the accumulation of private fortunes and
industrial empires<BR>by its foremost members and collaborators through
“privatisation” and<BR>other measures, thereby intensifying centralisation
of economic affairs<BR>and government in an increasingly narrow group that
may for all<BR>practical purposes be termed the national socialist
elite’.<BR><BR>That's right: privatization of government functions and
state-owned<BR>industries was literally invented by the Nazis.<BR><BR>This
reminds me of something I've been meaning to blog about for
months.<BR>Read more of this post<BR>Adam Kotsko | Tuesday, September 18,
2012 at 7:27 am | Categories:<BR>economics, fascism, Foucault, politics |
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