Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks reads from Hilter's 'Mein Kampf' while bashing Democrats,media

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(03-27-2019, 02:59 PM)Stonyhands Wrote: Yes...it couldn’t possibly have anything to do with the left repeatedly calling Trump Hitler.

Here’s an interesting read.

https://mises.org/library/why-nazism-was-socialism-and-why-socialism-totalitarian

I'm not an economics major by any means, but this sentence immediately throws me off:

Quote:And (2) to show why socialism, understood as an economic system based on government ownership of the means of production, positively requires a totalitarian dictatorship.

I can't find many corroborating definitions of socialism that considers it the economic system where the government owns the means of production.

Most I find are defined as such:

Quote:Socialism is an economic system where everyone in society equally owns the factors of production. The ownership is acquired through a democratically elected government. It could also be a cooperative or a public corporation where everyone owns shares. 

Or, more simply, 

Quote:Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production and workers' self-management,[10] as well as the political theories and movements associated with them.

If you remove the definition of Socialism as a government run means of production, that entire article falls apart.

Now, maybe at its most extreme, a socially owned means of production can become a puppet state for a government run means of production, but I don't know if that's the intended purpose of Socialism...

Of course, I may be misunderstanding something and I don't have a full concept of Socialism.

All that said, I still don't see how it's related to American Politics.