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[–] goat2017 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

If your main focus and worldview centers on economic policy, then you're not entirely wrong.

He didn't exactly hate the rich, at least not all of them. Industrialists were fairly well respected, bankers and stock traders not so much. It was the distinction between creating wealth (producing goods or necessary services) rather than managing wealth and extracting wealth (financial services and stock prospecting, etc). But ya, there were extensive social programs for the German people at the time.