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[–]casparvoneverecBig tiddy respecter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

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Did Fascist Italy or Nazi Germany make any such innovations though? The Nazi economy was essentially a mix of large privately owned corporations and state-run enterprises. The banks were mostly controlled by the state as well.

It was essentially a top down system. What I'm talking about is something more organic. A truly democratic workplace where the workers have a say in the direction of the company. Ideally, they should all vote to elect the Director/CEO for a period of 5 or 7 years. Nazi Germany as far as I know had run of the mill top down corporate structures where either the factory was owned by a businessman or a government manager.

[–]MarkimusNational Socialist[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Italy did it in the Salo Republic. Neither Italy (except in the second republic but it was a smaller state) nor Germany reached an 'endpoint', they were constantly evolving and both used a gradualist revolutionary strategy. They probably both would have fully implemented Corporatism with a lot of distributed ownership at some point.