Liberalism is a choice, socialism is by force.
The doctrines of National Socialism are the culmination of a long evolution of thought, a process in which thinkers have had great influence.
What caused the views to be held by reactionary minority finally to gain the support of the great majority of Germans and practically the whole of Germany's youth came from the socialist camp, through the absence of a strong bourgeoisie.
The doctrines that had guided the ruling elements in Germany for the past generation were opposed to the liberal elements contained in its internationalism and its democracy of socialism.
It was the union of the anti capitalist forces of the Right and of the Left, the fusion of radical and conservative socialism, which drove our from Germany everything that was liberal.
The German idea of the State according to Fichte, Lasalle and Rodbertis, that the state is neither founded nor fomed by individuals, nor an aggregate of individuals, nor is its purpose to serve any interest of individuals. The individual has no rights but only duties.
Germans had the idea that there is a life higher than the individual life, the life of the people and the life of the state, and it is the purpose of the individual to sacrifice himself for that higher life.
The war economy created in Germany 1914, the first realization of a socialist society and its spirit the first active, and not merely demanding, appearance of a socialist spirit.
State and economic life form a new unity.
Wilhem Ostwald, "while the other nations still live under the regime of individualism, we have already achieved that of organization".
What has to be done now is to get rid of these inherited political ideas and to assist the growth of a new conception of State and Society.
The state has undergone a process of socialization, and Social Democracy, has undergone a process of nationalization.
The German Prussian instinct is: the power belong to the whole.. Everyone is given his place. One commands or obeys. This is authoritarian socialism
The question for all is: Is in the future trade to govern the state, or the state to govern trade?
Fight against liberalism in all its forms, liberalism that had defeated Germany, was the common idea which united socialists and conservatives in one common front.
It is the conservative socialism which is the dominant trend among us now.
The doctrines of National Socialism are the culmination of a long evolution of thought, a process in which thinkers have had great influence.
What caused the views to be held by reactionary minority finally to gain the support of the great majority of Germans and practically the whole of Germany's youth came from the socialist camp, through the absence of a strong bourgeoisie.
The doctrines that had guided the ruling elements in Germany for the past generation were opposed to the liberal elements contained in its internationalism and its democracy of socialism.
It was the union of the anti capitalist forces of the Right and of the Left, the fusion of radical and conservative socialism, which drove our from Germany everything that was liberal.
The German idea of the State according to Fichte, Lasalle and Rodbertis, that the state is neither founded nor fomed by individuals, nor an aggregate of individuals, nor is its purpose to serve any interest of individuals. The individual has no rights but only duties.
Germans had the idea that there is a life higher than the individual life, the life of the people and the life of the state, and it is the purpose of the individual to sacrifice himself for that higher life.
The war economy created in Germany 1914, the first realization of a socialist society and its spirit the first active, and not merely demanding, appearance of a socialist spirit.
State and economic life form a new unity.
Wilhem Ostwald, "while the other nations still live under the regime of individualism, we have already achieved that of organization".
What has to be done now is to get rid of these inherited political ideas and to assist the growth of a new conception of State and Society.
The state has undergone a process of socialization, and Social Democracy, has undergone a process of nationalization.
The German Prussian instinct is: the power belong to the whole.. Everyone is given his place. One commands or obeys. This is authoritarian socialism
The question for all is: Is in the future trade to govern the state, or the state to govern trade?
Fight against liberalism in all its forms, liberalism that had defeated Germany, was the common idea which united socialists and conservatives in one common front.
It is the conservative socialism which is the dominant trend among us now.