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tell that to Teddy Roosevelt
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Pretty sure corporations are kept on a tight leash under right wing regimes, I doubt Hitler would have wanted outspoken corporations standing against him.
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Political freedom? No. But the freedom to continue making gobs of money? Yes.

Long article, but worth glancing at:

https://www.adl.org/resources/news/german-industry-and-third-reich

The conclusion:

"Some businessmen, it is true, resisted the demands of the Nazi regime; some, like Oskar Schindler, protected Jews; some even allied themselves with the anti-Nazi underground. But there were relatively few such people. Greed drove all too many 'apolitical businessmen' to engage in odious conduct. This behavior, however, was not an exclusive function of capitalism. Rather, it was the result of the social and political realities that existed in the Third Reich. Most industrialists were opportunists who saw the occupation of Europe and the Nazis' persecution of the Jews as a chance to enrich themselves and their companies. Undoubtedly, latent and overt anti-Semitism, anti-Slavic sentiments, and German nationalism also allowed some industrialists to work with the regime out of a sense of patriotism, and without ever reflecting upon the moral boundaries they were crossing. Fear and the desire for self-protection were also important factors motivating businessmen. (Indeed, few Germans demonstrated the courage to speak out against the Nazi regime. Finally, as the war escalated, the desire to merely survive into the postwar period prompted many companies to take advantage of concentration camp labor. The point is that industrial behavior under Nazism cannot be reduced to simple structural explanations. Even within the context of a dictatorship that demanded high levels of production for war, industrialists made choices as individuals. They approached the SS for cheap labor; they decided whether to buy a Jewish company at a fraction of its value; they determined how forced and slave laborers would be treated in their factories."

Bottom-line, I'm not aware of any large-scale corporate resistance to the Nazi regime, nor to any other far-right regime of the 20th century (in Spain, Italy, Latin America, etc.). Basically there's no need to keep corporations "on a leash" in that sense if they are already being willing collaborators, adapting to and spotting opportunities in the new political environment.
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