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If we take this at pure compass value, that of right-left being private business vs. collectivist economics, it has validity. But it is strange at first glance, certainly.
IMO, the only thing that made business under Hitler not as private as the current US's is that it was an economy in the context of an all-out war. Collectivist economy was certainly not the post-war goal.
The economic ideology of the Nazis, and fascists generally, was to do whatever is good for the state and the nation it represents. The state is supreme.
I would disagree strongly about the comparison to the current US. Arbitrary controls and seizure of private business were rampant under the Nazi regime even before WW2.
Collectivist economy was not the post-war goal, but neither was a capitalist economy of private business. While the more... 'left'... wing of the Nazis had been destroyed in the Night of the Long Knives, the end-goal for the Nazi Party was pretty openly something along the lines of late 19th century Catholic Distributists, which I would regard as pretty 'center' as far as right-left economics goes, complete with agrarian idolization. Just add racism, militarization, and an all-powerful state.