What would this be?

3. Family farms must be inherited by the farmer's oldest son or the nearest male relative and the heir is responsible for providing a living for the deceased farmer's surviving spouse and minor children.

. An employee must pay anywhere from 15 to 35 per cent of his pay in taxes and charitable donations mandated by the government.

Government:
2. The government prints money whenever necessary to avoid deficit spending or borrowing.
3. The government subsidizes things like factory construction and maintenance.
4. The government determines what farms will produce.
5. The government determines the prices at which farmers may sell what they produces [..].
6. The government determines what goods and services businesses can produce, how much they will produce and the price at which the produced goods and services will be sold.
7. The government, at the direction of business owners, determines the wages and salaries of all employees.
9. The government operates an organization that provides low-cost recreational and cultural activities [..]
10. The government conscripts labor for public works projects in order to relieve massive, chronic or long-term unemployment.

Business owners:
4. Employers may demand greater output from employees without increasing wages or benefits.
5. Large business must either form cartels or join already existing cartels pertaining to whatever industry the business is associated with.
6. No business may fire an employee or lay off an employee without the government's permission.

Labor:
1. Labor unions are illegal.
2. Employees may not strike.
3. No employee may leave his employer without the employer's permission.

Re all of the above -- communism? :wink:

The next time any liberal tries to associate conservatives with Nazis, point them to this thread.

1. Labor unions are illegal.
2. Employees may not strike.
3. No employee may leave his employer without the employer's permission.
4. An employee must pay anywhere from 15 to 35 per cent of his pay in taxes and charitable donations mandated by the government
7. The government, at the direction of business owners, determines the wages and salaries of all employees.
1. All corporations worth less than $500,000 must be sold to a larger corporation or closed.
3. No more than 6% of a corporation's profits may be distributed as dividends. The remaining 94% must be either re-invested in the corporation or be used to purchase government bonds (which the government is not obligated to ever pay back).
4. Employers may demand greater output from employees without increasing wages or benefits.
5. Large business must either form cartels or join already existing cartels pertaining to whatever industry the business is associated with.

What would this be?

inflation. I've posted this on several other boards and most of the time other posters think this is plan is socialism or communism. Some have even asked which Democrat presidential candidate this plan belongs to.

1. Labor unions are illegal.

1. The government levies heavy taxes.

4. An employee must pay anywhere from 15 to 35 per cent of his pay in taxes and charitable donations mandated by the government.

Nope. What I gave here is a summary of the German economy under National Socialism as outlined by William Shirer in his book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, with dollar amounts updated to account for inflation. I've posted this on several other boards and most of the time other posters think this is plan is socialism or communism. Some have even asked which Democrat presidential candidate this plan belongs to.

Actually, it is not communism in the Marxian sense since it has elements that couldn't exist according to the Communist Manifesto. It is Soviet-style socialism with a veneer of private property.

The next time any liberal tries to associate conservatives with Nazis, point them to this thread.

This one gave it away for me along with the private ownership.

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1. Labor unions are illegal.

Nazism is conservative economics. quite the opposite of socialism/communism in theory. If, on the other hand, you are talking about USSR/China/Cuba that's another topic altogether.

I don't see how the Nazi's ECONOMIC policies had anything to do with the holocaust or World War II.

All this does is explain how the German goverment was so efficent and economically competent that it managed to recover from one of it's worst recession this century into a superpower capable of threatening the entire planet.

P.S: Good god, did you even read more than half of what you posted. It seriously reads like a conservative's wet dream.

This would be you being wrong on so many different counts that it's downright hilarious.

The last entry proves conservatives are the most ignorant of all.

I did find these 2 a little contradictory -

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Nope. What I gave here is a summary of the German economy under National Socialism as outlined by William Shirer in his book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, with dollar amounts updated to account for inflation. I've posted this on several other boards and most of the time other posters think this is plan is socialism or communism. Some have even asked which Democrat presidential candidate this plan belongs to.

Actually, it is not communism in the Marxian sense since it has elements that couldn't exist according to the Communist Manifesto. It is Soviet-style socialism with a veneer of private property.

The next time any liberal tries to associate conservatives with Nazis, point them to this thread.

That post made total sense until the last sentence.

Yes, I'm not surprised that many people associated much of the description with communism - particularly, as you point out, Soviet communism. Soviet communism and Nazism had a lot in common, in their manichean, authoritarian world view, ruthless methods, and even social and economic policies.

In many ways, the ideologies of the far right and far left "touch" each other in general - instead of an axis from left to right, the nature of political ideology is in some ways more like a circle.

Then comes the last sentence and you clunk overboard. Because US liberals and Democrats have almost nothing in common with Soviet communism, and the comparison of communism with fascism thus also says nothing about them. This is quickly sussed out by confirming that your typical US liberal will strongly disagree with the majority of the points that your description lays out.

If the scale of ideologies is more like a circle than like an axis, with communism and fascism on many points "meeting" each other on one side of the circle, then your average US liberal and moderate will be at the exact opposite point.

Which is another example of how US liberals are nothing like communists.. quick, think of a liberal President who clamped down on unions!

No no no. Ideology isn't a circle.

It's this... http://www.politicalcompass.org/analysis2

You can see clearly that where conservatives and liberals interect is where fasicism falls.