Kant, Immanuel

It is nonsensical to consider Kant a precursor of Nazism. Kant advocated eternal peace between nations.

Omnipotent Government, pp. 140–41

In his book on Eternal Peace, the German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) suggested that government should be forbidden to finance wars by borrowing. He expected that the warlike spirit would dwindle if all countries had to pay cash for their wars.

Economic Freedom and Interventionism, p. 99.