Amerika

In an interesting historical side-note, Nazi privatization of big firms enabled a growing middle class, despite being too late to escape the crushing weight of the bureaucracy:

The state took over a large industrial concern, large commercial banks, and other minor firms. In the mid-1930s, the Nazi regime transferred public ownership to the private sector. In doing so, they went against the mainstream trends in western capitalistic countries, none of which systematically reprivatized firms during the 1930s. Privatization was used as a political tool to enhance support for the government and for the Nazi Party.

Interestingly, the Nazis announced this intent in their 25 points:

16. We demand the creation and maintenance of a sound middle-class, the immediate communalization of large stores which will be rented cheaply to small tradespeople, and the strongest consideration must be given to ensure that small traders shall deliver the supplies needed by the State, the provinces and municipalities.

In doing so, the Nazis made the same mistake that Europe continually makes but the Founding Fathers in the USA did not: they create market forces through government, instead of removing government so that culture and market forces can make a society.

The bureaucracy — like religion, ideology, and popularity — becomes a proxy for healthy life, instead of simply getting out of the way or being suppressed by culture such that healthy life can organically arise as it does before government.

Tags: capitalism, Culture, national socialism, privatization