The Vampire Economy
The Vampire Economy

Author: Günter Reimann

Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1610163109

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Here is a study of the actual workings of business under national socialism. Written in 1939, Reimann discusses the effects of heavy regulation, inflation, price controls, trade interference, national economic planning, and attacks on private property, and what consequences they had for human rights and economic development. This is a subject rarely discussed and for reasons that are discomforting,: as much as the left hated the social and cultural agenda of the Nazis, the economic agenda fit straight into a pattern of statism that had emerged in Europe and the United States, and in this area, the world has not be de-Nazified. This books makes for alarming reading, as one discovers the extent to which the Nazi economic agenda of totalitarian control--without finally abolishing private property--has become the norm. The author is by no means an Austrian but his study provides historical understanding and frightening look at the consequences of state economic management.

Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class
Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class

Author: Timothy W. Mason

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-03-09

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780521437875

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This collection of essays, four of which are published in English for the first time, represents the life's work of the historian Tim Mason, one of the most original and perceptive scholars of National Socialism, who pioneered its social and labour history. His provocative articles and essays, written between 1964 and 1990, exhibit a combination of empirical rigour and theoretical astuteness which made them landmarks in the definition and elaboration of major debates in the historiography of National Socialism. These ten essays collect together Mason's most significant writings, including discussions of the domestic origins of the Second World War, the role of Hitler, and the character of working-class resistance, as well as his pathbreaking study of women under National Socialism, and examples of comparative work on fascism and Nazism. A complete bibliography of his publications is also appended.

Fascism: A Very Short Introduction
Fascism: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Kevin Passmore

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2014-05-29

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 0191508551

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What is fascism? Is it revolutionary? Or is it reactionary? Can it be both? Fascism is notoriously hard to define. How do we make sense of an ideology that appeals to streetfighters and intellectuals alike? That is overtly macho in style, yet attracts many women? That calls for a return to tradition while maintaining a fascination with technology? And that preaches violence in the name of an ordered society? In the new edition of this Very Short Introduction, Kevin Passmore brilliantly unravels the paradoxes of one of the most important phenomena in the modern world—tracing its origins in the intellectual, political, and social crises of the late nineteenth century, the rise of fascism following World War I, including fascist regimes in Italy and Germany, and the fortunes of 'failed' fascist movements in Eastern Europe, Spain, and the Americas. He also considers fascism in culture, the new interest in transnational research, and the progress of the far right since 2002. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

The Legacy of Nazism
The Legacy of Nazism

Author: Frank Munk

Publisher:

Published: 1943

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13:

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The totalitarian state is total in that it dominates and engulfs every aspect of social organization and of individual life. The war being fought is not merely being fought on land, sea, and in the air--it is fought with social systems, by social systems, and through social systems. The book examines the extent of changes that have resulted from that war on the world economic system, as it has been exposed to a totalitarian economy, a system utterly opposed to rationalism, liberalism, individualism, and all the other fundamentals of a business economy. This examination is necessitated by the changes that will occur in the aftermath, taking into account the factors which constitute economic organization, and how best to adapt them in the wake of calamity.