A while back, I read an interesting article on plans Hitler allegedly had to transition Germany to a planned economy after the war. Whilst I doubt such plans would have come to fruition, it would have been interesting to see how the Trotskyist movement would have responded to him doing it. Since, according to Trotskyists, the most important criterion of a workers’ state is whether or not the means of production are nationalised, I suppose a Germany which had a planned economy would have counted as a ‘workers’ state’, despite its being ruled over by a Nazi bureaucracy. One can envisage Trotsky giving ‘critical support’ to such a regime in its fight with capitalist Britain and France.
‘Critical support to Comrade Hitler in the fight against Anglo-French imperialism!’