Ep. 446 No, Progressives, Capitalism Isn't Fascism: Here's What Nazi Germany's Economy Looked Like
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2015
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Capitalism is sometimes equated with "fascism" by some of its most visceral critics. But the whole point of fascism, as its architects explained again and again, was to produce an alternative to both communism and capitalism! In today's episode I spend some time discussing what it was like to be a businessman in Nazi Germany. It wasn't a laissez-faire paradise after all!
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 446. |
| 0:03.5 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.3 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. It is episode 446. |
| 0:18.5 | This is the episode on which I reveal the winner of the special sweepstakes |
| 0:24.5 | that Shift Gold has been holding for my listeners, and we're giving away a $1,000, |
| 0:31.2 | one ounce Canadian gold maple leaf coin. I'll announce the winner at the end of the show. |
| 0:37.3 | Now, look, I know you have a fast forward |
| 0:39.7 | button. Just play along with me. I'm trying to build suspense here. So at the end of the show, |
| 0:43.9 | I will reveal the name of the winner. The winner has not yet been notified. So the winner is going |
| 0:49.3 | to find out about his or her winnings today listening to this episode. Isn't that just super? I've been out of town |
| 0:57.8 | since last week in New York City. I'll be back tomorrow with a fresh program. These are all |
| 1:03.7 | fresh programs, of course, because you've never heard them before, so they're fresh, but I'll |
| 1:08.0 | have a guest and we'll be back to normal tomorrow. But today, I want to share with you something that I think you will find interesting. |
| 1:14.4 | A lot of times libertarians and supporters of the free market are called fascists, right? |
| 1:19.8 | It's a stupid inane remark to make. |
| 1:22.1 | How could we possibly be fascists when fascism was developed specifically as an alternative to laissez-faire capitalism. |
| 1:30.7 | That that was expressly the goal of the thing. |
| 1:34.2 | Well, anyway, what I'm doing today is sharing with you one of the two lessons that I devote to |
| 1:40.8 | fascism in my Ron Paul curriculum course on government. That's a 90 lesson course in which |
| 1:47.8 | I pretty much tried to include all the knowledge I have. Well, not quite, but you understand what I'm |
| 1:54.2 | getting at. I'm trying to take what it's taken me decades to learn and stuff it into these 90 lessons. The idea is it's a |
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