Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil

[Joseph Tracy]

On Jan 7, 2012, at 8:25 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:

> said alice -
>> Well, it is absurd to equate Nazi Germany and the US.
> 
> JT brought up some points of comparison.
> 
> to which one might add, the proportion of the national enterprise
> dedicated to murderous endeavor was -- I'm pretty sure -- much higher
> in the 3rd Reich
> 
> but US adventures in the old ultra-violence have been taking place
> over a much longer time so that cumulatively...
> 
> Even so, there are important philosophical and procedural differences
> that I, for one, cherish.
As do I. 

The question of proportion of  economy going to armament is interesting.  The visible part of ours is pretty darn high. And our global Military power is big. 
There is a good piece in Wikipedia  ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Nazi_Germany  )on the general topic but I can't find percentages. 

In Germany the armament project,  rhetorically founded largely on the fears of Bolshevism and the slav threat headed by 'international Jewry', didn't pick up steam until well  into the Nazi rule.   Not exactly the same as the Viet threat backed by international Maoists, or the Islamo fascist threat backed by international threats of mass flatulance and armies of suicidal men with utility knives. These differences are critical. but one has to admit that there is a teency bit of wacked out paranoia that comes out of the US, too.


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