ABSTRACT
Nazi Germany, though it was a system based on terror, was a State. For there was an operative legal system even though it was regarded as an instrument of Hitler’s will and subject to caprice in its application. Private enterprise will not avail, nor will the services of any society other than the State. Besides the possibility of State action in relation to individual incomes there is also the general question of its relation to industry as a whole. There are other factors, too—shortages or maldistribution of materials, over-production, the tariff policies of other States—which may require interference with the free play of economic processes. The aim of a sound political philosophy in this field would be to avoid any a priori judgments. Controls should neither be removed wholesale at the bidding of a doctrinaire individualism nor be imposed wholesale at the bidding of a doctrinaire socialism.
