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'''National Socialism''', commonly called '''Nazism''', and sometimes known as [[File:Hitler.png]] '''Hitlerism''' or [[File:Germanfash.png]] '''German Fascism''', is a [[File:Trad.png]] far-right, [[File:Totalitarian.png]] [[Totalitarianism|totalitarian]], [[File:EthnoUltranat.png]] [[Ethnonationalism|Ethno-ultranationalist]] ideology. With a State Controlled Economy, incorporating [[File:Sorelia.png|frameless]] [[National Syndicalism]] (Nationalizing the unions, and purging those who failed to comply) in tandem with a [[File:Corptism.png|frameless]] [[Corporatism|Corporatist]] structure (like most fascists) and a twist of their own version of [[File:Statesoc.png|frameless]] anti-Marxist socialism which focuses on the welfare of the German people and workers, he showers his countrymen with benefits to keep them compliant. However, their interpretation of socialism was still much tamer in comparison to the [[File:Strasser.png]] [[Strasserism|Strasserist]] faction of Nazism, whom held further economically left views, with a larger emphasis on German worker's rights and collective ownership.

He hates many ideologies, mainly [[File:Zio.png]] [[Zionism]], [[File:Commie.png|frameless]] [[Communism (Disambiguation)|Communism]], [[File:Lib.png]] [[Liberalism]], [[File:Cap.png|frameless]] [[Capitalism]], [[File:Internation.png|frameless]][[Internationalism]] and [[File:Dem.png]] [[Democracy]].

It is sometimes claimed that Nazism was an anti-capitalist ideology, deemed as a “Third Position” other than both Communism and Capitalism. However, neither Hitler nor any Nazi ideologues ever have qualified themselves as a “Third Position”—a term which appeared only years after the collapse of XXth century European fascist regimes, as a set of neo-fascist political ideologies that developed in the context of the Cold War. In fact, economics wasn't a structuring part of the Nazi ideology, as it has always been an accessory, or secondary aspect of it which primarly served its rhetoric depending on the context, resulting in a lack of any coherent theory. Hitler actually believed that the lack of a precise economic programme was one of the Nazi Party's strengths, saying: "The basic feature of our economic theory is that we have no theory at all". This led Nazism to align with German capitalists’ interests and integrate the then traditional capitalist mode of production in its economic policies and ideology. To Hitler, "the capitalists have worked their way to the top through their capacity, and as the basis of this selection, which again only proves their higher race, they have a right to lead." Nazi ideology indeed held entrepreneurship in high regard, and private property was considered a precondition to developing the creativity of members of the German race in the best interest of the economy, and therefore the nation. Thus, in spite of their rhetoric condemning big business prior to their rise to power, the Nazis quickly entered into a partnership with German business leaders. Industrialists massively supported the Nazi accession to power once his accession to power was seen as unavoidable, from about mid-1932 onwards, and what oppositon was initially present among them disappeared as they decided to collaborate with the new regime following private interests and/or political and ideological affinities, and thus as early as February 1933. That month, after being appointed Chancellor but before gaining dictatorial powers, Hitler made a personal appeal to German business leaders to help fund the Nazi Party for the crucial months that were to follow. He argued that they should support him in establishing a dictatorship because "private enterprise cannot be maintained in the age of democracy" and because democracy would allegedly lead to communism. He promised to destroy the German left and the trade unions, and in the following weeks, the Nazi Party received contributions from seventeen different business groups, with the largest coming from IG Farben and Deutsche Bank. The leaders of German capitalism therefore collaborated with the Nazis during their rise to power, and were willing partners in the destruction of political pluralism in Germany. In exchange, owners and managers of German businesses were granted unprecedented powers to control their workforce, collective bargaining was abolished and wages were frozen at a relatively low level. The Nazis granted millions of marks in credits to private businesses, and many businessmen had friendly relations to the Nazis, most notably with Heinrich Himmler and his Freundeskreis der Wirtschaft. German capitalists received substantial benefits from the Nazi state after it was established, including high profits monopolies and cartels. In this way, privatization was a tool in the hands of the Nazi Party to facilitate the accumulation of private fortunes and industrial empires by its foremost members and collaborators. This would have intensified centralization of economic affairs and government in an increasingly narrow group of collaborators to the Nazi regime made of capitalist leaders and economic elites. The Nazi government in 1930s Germany undertook a wide scale privatization policy. The Nazis privatized public properties and public services, only increasing economic state control through regulations already practiced by prior conservative governments. The government sold public ownership in several State-owned firms in different sectors. In addition, delivery of some public services previously produced by the public sector was transferred to the private sector, mainly to organizations within the Nazi Party. Ideological motivations do not explain Nazi privatization. However, political motivations were important. The Nazi government may have used privatization (worth to note that back in this time word "privatization" had opposite meaning of what we have today) as a tool to improve its relationship with big industrialists and to increase support among this group for its policies.