Bureaucratic sabotage crushed even the modest German socialization program.

Evidence

The Commission’s programme was a modest one. The socialization of the means of production could only be carried out as a long-term, organic construction'. A start was to be made with those areas of the economy in which monopoly-capitalistic conditions of ownership have developed’. But even the activities allowed for within this framework were sabotaged by the bureaucracy. The reports and draft laws on the socialization of the mining industry, on communalization and on nationalization of the fishing industry and insurance were not only left unpublishedthe Ministry of the Economy attempted to alter them as well. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 32

Categorization

• CANDY: The detail that the Ministry tried to alter reports on nationalizing the fishing industry is a fun, surprising bureaucratic-detail tidbit.
• XREF: connects to: The post-war German government refused even symbolic concessions toward socialization. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 31; The German bureaucracy sabotaged the 1919 Socialization Commission’s work

Broader Connections

• The post-war German government refused even symbolic concessions toward socialization. #corroborates (0.82) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 31