The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s5.33

c11.s5.33

In his economic and social policies Hitler the national-socialist is not identical with Bismarck the nationalist, and is of course at poles asunder from Frederick the Great. There cannot be any equation between the economic planning of the Nazi state and that of the "enlightened despots." Exactly in the same manner is it impossible to establish any equation between the *de facto* "planned economy" measures of the British Cabinet today and the Elizabethan *Fürsorgestaat* or state intervention in private economy. Kauṭalyan economy does not contain anything more than what is to be found in Diocletian, Elizabeth, Colbert and so forth. When all these considerations are taken into account the category *Planwirtschaft* should not be employed in connection with the economic measures of the *Kauṭalīya Arthaśāstra*.