In a message dated 9/29/00 7:14:24 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
Spudboy100@aol.com writes:<< Similarly, the vicissitudes enacted bt the 3rd
Reich, or The Confederacy of America, were surely business
practices--however
vile they may be. >>
No, my understanding of the practices in Nazi Germany were not the result
of business transactions but the practices of a National Socialist
Government. Soldiers and policemen rounded up those prisoners, placed them
in custody and either killed outright or worked them to death.
As to Adam Smith, I am not aware that he ever described slavery as a
capitalist process. However I think it is very unfair to have anyone define
capitalism other than its advocates. Otherwise we end in a situation like
the one today where you are defining the practices of Nazi Germany as
Capitalism when in fact none of the advocates of Capitalism has ever promoted
any such conduct.
The only people running Nazi Germany were people describing themselves as
socialist.
Ron H.
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