Paul
- As a minority party, whose base was petty bourgeois, the Nazis
had little capacity for the kind of social mobilization required to "take
over" big business and the banks. Their social base wanted a 'better
deal'vis-a-vis big capital, particularly at the expense of workers.
Accommodation with the economic elite was also the sine qua non of support
from the military command (who remained a politically conscious and
independent force throughout Nazi rule).
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CB: Was it accomodation or a principle-agent relationship ?
There is a school of thought that the Nazis were especially agents of
imperialism , i.e. big biz. For example, Henry Ford was a wellknown Nazi
supporter. So, perhaps they wouldn't be trying to "takeover" big biz. They
worked for big biz, or a sector ( the non-Jewish sector) of big biz. This
might explain why they didn't "administer controls in the face of 'market'
refusals" and why they even needed credibility through the key Central
Banker you mention. They weren't going to try to control their masters.
To me it seems that the Nazis theft of fortunes from Jewish capitalists
might have been their acting on behalf of one sector of big biz in the
competition between different capitalists. This would be a materialist cause
of the Nazi's most infamous racism. Lets put it this way. I'm suspicious of
the fact that the other capitalists gained a windfall from the murderous
destruction of their Jewish competitors. Like racism in the U.S., is Nazi
racism really explained by an "insanity" or were they dizzy like foxes, with
a material interest underlying their "insanely" vicious ,anti-Semitic
politics ? Literal cutthroat competition is a recurrent feature of
capitalism.
The Nazis' heavy-duty anti-working class (union busting, etc.),
anti-Communist policies were no accident. They had a very conscious role in
the class struggle on the side of the bourgeoisie. The Nazis had a petit
bourgeois social base, appropriately , because they played a special petit
bourgeois agent role to the ruling-principle role of the big bourgeoisie.
