Cyrylek
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Of course the state dominates, that is pretty much the definition of totalitarian, however, in a Communist State, there is no private property nor free enterprise, in a fascist state, private property and free enterprise is encouraged, to the extent it benefits the state. You could call it a distinction without a difference, but that is my overall point, the degreee of totalitarianism is either system is so extreme, the difference to an individual living in either system might be indistinguishable, you behave as the state demands, or the state will kill you.
Yes, I agree. It also might be added that tightly controlled private enterprise was allowed (as we have mentioned before) under the Lenin's New Economic Policy, which continued for longer than the pre-war Nazi rule. The capital-F Fascists probably envisioned their mode of "corporatism" as permanent, but the Hitlerites seemed to be gradually moving closer to the Communist mode, after Hjalmar Schacht and other moderates have lost their positions by 1937
The Four-Year Plan of 1936, with Hermann Goering installed as an absolute economic dictator, sure looks pretty damn Soviet.