Exactly. Zentrum represent the political centre: any party to left or right of Zentrum is extremist. Economically speaking, the FVP is to the right of Zentrum whereas the DDP are well to the right of Zentrum.
Which you yourself admitted were beneficial to the economy as they encourage the unemployed and the retired to contribute to it in lieu of employment.
You do not know what a free market is if you honestly think that. Protectionism is the antithesis of a free market. Protectionism + Interventionism =/= free market. The FVP are much, much more economically liberal than either party.
((No economical speaking: Far left: SED. Left: DAP. Moderate/center Left: FVP. Moderate right or center right: DVNP and DZP. Far right: DDP. And former KPD would be extreme left, and an anarcho capitalist/liberal party would be the extreme right.
And. I never claimed that either of these want a free-market. The only party that is pro free-market ks the DDP as we can see, they want to roll back regulations, end all state subsidues, have free trade and with the ingame laissez-faire it have an abstracted model to show that it is no regulations (minus the ones the player have not made in forms of minimum wage, maximum work hours and safety regulations) as it have no investment penalty whatsoever for capitalists and even a higher production bonus (or througput, can't remember) whereas with interventionism that 5% bonus to productivity is removed and knvestments are 66% higher for capitalists to simulate the abstracted forms of regulations.
Different forms of social reforms. Minimum wage, safety regulations and maximum work hours are regulations of the economy.
Yes protectionism is the anti-thesis of free trade, just lile central planning and an active state hand is the anti-thesis of a free internal market. The last two ate carried out by the FVP in a very large degree. To say otherwise is simply wrong. But the DVNP, DZP and FVP are market orientated economies, but they want to regulate it and have centralized planning in forms of regulating the economy. And for what we've seen in every gameplay-post and election post, the FVP want the tighest control. Tommy himself even said that the DVNP became much more free-market orientated.
And the DZP, FVP and DVNP all have a market orientated economy, but they have different degrees of regulations and central planning. The DVNP sure do have small tarrifs, but they support a minimal intereference in the economy, and the DZP are a light version of the FVP, whilst the FVP quite obviously encourage a strong state to regulate the market. Any economist or economy student (even just folks interested in it) would see this.))
