It is rotten and dismal that a world of so many hundred million people should be
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The truth hurts, but if you accept it, it will set you free
Sunday, July 24, 2022 9:12 PM
Title couldn’t possibly say it all.
“It is rotten and dismal that a world of so many hundred million people should be ruled by a single caste that has the power to lead millions to life or to death, indeed on a whim...
This caste has spun its web over the entire earth; capitalism recognizes no national boundaries...
Capitalism has learned nothing from recent events and wants to learn nothing, because it places its own interests ahead of those of the other millions.
Can one blame those millions for standing up for their own interests, and only for those interests?
Can one blame them for striving to forge an international community whose purpose is the struggle against corrupt capitalism?
Can one condemn a large segment of the educated Stürmer youth for protesting against the greatest ability?
Is it not an abomination that people with the most brilliant intellectual gifts should sink into poverty and disintegrate, while others dissipate, squander, and waste the money that could help them? …
You say the old propertied class also worked hard for what it has.
Granted, that may be true in many cases.
But do you also know about the conditions under which workers were living during the period when capitalism “earned” its fortune?”
~ Letter to Anka Stalherm (14 April 1920)
~ Quoted in Ralph Georg Reuth, Goebbels (Harvest, 1994), pp. 33-34
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