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If Hitler were a capitalist - if National Socialism was just capitalism in disguise - then Hitler was not totalitarian. You cannot have totalitarianism without total state control of the economy. Since the idea of totalitarianism was invented by Mussolini and the Fascists in 1925 to describe their own regime, "...everything in the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state..." Therefore, it's worth pointing out that, to be classified as totalitarian, both Fascism and National Socialism must be socialist. So, those arguing that it is capitalism are basically saying that Hitler and Mussolini did not have totalitarian control over their nations. This is incorrect, but that's what they argue.
Hitler's Socialism | Destroying the Denialist Counter Arguments
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And Gentile also said that Fascism was the ultimate form of democracy. "The Nationalist state was an aristocratic state that constructed itself out of the force it inherited from its origin, which made it valued by the masses. The Fascist State, on the other hand, is a popular state and, in that sense, a democratic State par excellence." Democracy means 'People Power'.
FASCISM DEFINED | the Difference Between Fascism and National Socialism
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This is the question at the heart of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1954 masterwork, *The Lord of the Rings*. Middle-earth is marred by civilizational decline, the loss of hope among men, and a profound sense that the beauty of the past is doomed to decay. This slow fading was the author’s attempt to express something he had felt all his life, which he once described as a “heart-racking sense of the vanished past.”
How to Live Through a Great Decline
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