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'''Gottfried Feder''' (1883–1941) was a German engineer-economist, author of ''Manifesto for the Abolition of Interest Slavery'' (1919) and the NSDAP's original economic theorist — the man whose anti-usury lecture converted Hitler to the party in 1919.
'''Gottfried Feder''' is the answer to the question "what happens when you attack finance capital without class analysis?" Answer: you get Nazism.


== Doctrine ==
Feder was the engineer-economist whose anti-usury lecture converted Hitler to the party in 1919 — ''Manifesto for the Abolition of Interest Slavery,'' the 25-point program's "socialist" planks, the whole bit. He correctly identified finance parasitism and then attributed it to "Jewish capital," turning a critique of usury into the vehicle for genocide. The Nazi state kept private property, served heavy industry, and murdered the scapegoats — Feder himself was marginalized by 1934 once Schacht's orthodox financing of rearmament made him useless.
* Distinguished "raffendes Kapital" (speculative, mobile, finance capital) from "schaffendes Kapital" (productive, industrial capital); condemned interest ("interest slavery") as the root evil, demanding state-issued labor currency and the breaking of "interest bondage."
* His 25-point program economics: nationalization of trusts, profit-sharing in large enterprises, land reform against speculation — the "socialist" planks of National Socialism, largely abandoned by 1933.
* Served as undersecretary in the Economics Ministry until his marginalization by Schacht's orthodox financing of rearmament; dismissed 1934.


== Analytical significance ==
== Why he matters here ==
Feder is the classic case study of '''anti-usury politics without class analysis''': correctly identifying finance parasitism, then misattributing it to "Jewish capital," so that the critique of usury became the vehicle of genocide rather than expropriation of the expropriators. The Nazi state preserved private property and served heavy industry while murdering the scapegoats. Every patriotic-socialist current must answer Feder's question — how to attack finance capital — without repeating his answer (see [[Strasserism]], [[Vampire economy]], [[Left-Conservatism]]).
Every patriotic-socialist current must answer Feder's question — '''how do you attack finance capital?''' — without repeating his answer. The Infrared line: finance is a class relation (Wall Street, the City, monopoly rent), not an ethnicity; the answer is expropriation and planning ([[Capitalist Socialism]]), and the coalition is multiethnic by composition, not despite it ([[Left-Conservatism]], [[Strasserism]]).


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Vampire economy]]
* [[Robert Ley]]
* [[Robert Ley]]
* [[Vampire economy]]


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 10:34, 21 August 2026

Gottfried Feder is the answer to the question "what happens when you attack finance capital without class analysis?" Answer: you get Nazism.

Feder was the engineer-economist whose anti-usury lecture converted Hitler to the party in 1919 — Manifesto for the Abolition of Interest Slavery, the 25-point program's "socialist" planks, the whole bit. He correctly identified finance parasitism and then attributed it to "Jewish capital," turning a critique of usury into the vehicle for genocide. The Nazi state kept private property, served heavy industry, and murdered the scapegoats — Feder himself was marginalized by 1934 once Schacht's orthodox financing of rearmament made him useless.

Why he matters here

Every patriotic-socialist current must answer Feder's question — how do you attack finance capital? — without repeating his answer. The Infrared line: finance is a class relation (Wall Street, the City, monopoly rent), not an ethnicity; the answer is expropriation and planning (Capitalist Socialism), and the coalition is multiethnic by composition, not despite it (Left-Conservatism, Strasserism).

See also

References