What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
National Socialism stands or falls by its Weltanschauung.
This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could serve as a successful alternative to socialism.
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
We have ground for believing that a noble form of socialism existed among the prehistoric and primitive people on this planet, the people that broke into restless groups after the ancient Deluge and went wandering over the globe. For we find a socialist tendency in all the barbaric tribes of earth.
If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.
Socialism? We've had way too much of it already.
The rise of National Socialism is the protest of a people against a State that denies the right to work.
The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.
Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.
Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.