Heil Hitler, Heil Economic Protectionism

Well... Happy Birthday to Adolf Hitler, right? Yes, Heil Hitler... heil economic protectionism! Before this - I wrote a September 21 eye-opener where I said that criticizing Marcos while loving economic protectionism makes ZERO SENSE. Another one I wrote years ago was where I compared Filipino ultranationalists to Hitler himself.

The Mises Institute reveals in its article "Hitler's Economics" the following things about Hitler:

In the 1930s, Hitler was widely viewed as just another protectionist central planner who recognized the supposed failure of the free market and the need for nationally guided economic development. Proto-Keynesian socialist economist Joan Robinson wrote that "Hitler found a cure against unemployment before Keynes was finished explaining it."

What were those economic policies? He suspended the gold standard, embarked on huge public-works programs like autobahns, protected industry from foreign competition, expanded credit, instituted jobs programs, bullied the private sector on prices and production decisions, vastly expanded the military, enforced capital controls, instituted family planning, penalized smoking, brought about national healthcare and unemployment insurance, imposed education standards, and eventually ran huge deficits. The Nazi interventionist program was essential to the regime's rejection of the market economy and its embrace of socialism in one country.

Just reading it makes me facedesk is how Filipino activists put Hitler on a negative light while they support economic protectionism. While Hitler wasn't wrong to impose some stuff but notice the stuff which I placed in bold letters. His policies where he ran a very controlled economy like shielding the local German industry from foreign competition was just the start. The part where he decided to bully the private sector especially those owned by European Jews destroyed more funds. He was also into the welfare state mentality and didn't account for the money or funding. Protecting industries from foreign competition and destroying Jewish businesses further destroyed the source of fundings. That's what you get when you believe money falls from the sky or that the government should directly produce jobs than the private industries. Hitler may have confiscated wealth and assets but he certainly used them poorly. All his reckless economic decisions only left Germany broken after World War 2 and didn't improve it after World War 1.

Communism and Nazism may have their differences but we can't deny their similarities. Both of them have brought nothing but destruction. The wake of communist rule has caused genocide across countries ran by it. China's Xi Jinping should be condemned for his crimes against the Chinese people and humanity. Both idiotologies (a combination of ideology and idiot) are under the banner Mein Kampf or My Struggle. In short, Hitler's reckless decisions against the free market economy in the name of nationalism (which is also added more to why he hated Jews) was more of his desire for power or more power.

The Hitler song in To Be or Not to Be had Hitler's desire for power and more power parodied and summarized at the same time. You can see what when he just wants peace - he says he wants a little piece of this and that instead. Hitler's reckless decisions were always focused on his selfish desires. His so-called nationalism is nothing more than a sham as he only wants power. If he was so nationalistic then why did he still import weapons for the military or even join forces with fascist Italian leader Benito Mussolini, right?