However, his business interests in Nazi Germany were becoming extremely profitable, and he was very sympathetic to the Nazi racist goals. He was a staunch supporter of both Mussolini and Hitler, and although he was not particularly driven by fascism, he recognized its profitability. As Black (2001, 69) has stated: “Thomas Watson and IBM had separately and jointly spent decades making money any way they could.… To a supranational, making money is equal parts commercial Darwinism, corporate ecclesiastics, dynamic chauvinism, and solipsistic greed.”
