He argues that the Nazi Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union, all connected or adopted central planning and socialism, eventually became totalitarian countries can be proofs of his opinion. After the First World War, the conditions for a totalitarian government had developed rapidly especially after Adolf Hitler took control of the country. The Nazi government started a four years plan for the economic development, unlike the five years plan implemented by the Soviet Union, the Nazi four year plan did not replace the previous administration of economy. The new organization acted as a rival to the air force, also under Goring, to the army, and to the economics ministry, all of which participated in economic planning and administration ( Temin 575 ). The policy made by the Nazi government exactly shows that a planned economy must be dictatorial which the government use all the forces to be more authoritative and make the plans better implemented. Hence, central planning is a method that leads to …show more content…
Therefore, the ideology to create a combined system which has both democracy in politics and a high level of government control in economy is obviously impractical and