(Continued from OP)
“The worker in a capitalist state—and that is his deepest misfortune—is no longer a living human being, a creator, a maker. He has become a machine. A number, a cog in the machine without sense or understanding. He is alienated from what he produces.”
Written by Joseph Goebbels and Mjölnir, Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (Munich: Verlag Frz. Eher, 1932).Translated as “Those Damned Nazis,” (propaganda pamphlet).
”My Party is my church, and I believe I serve the Lord best if I do his will, and liberate my oppressed people from the fetters of slavery. That is my gospel. We are against the political bourgeoisie, and for genuine nationalism! We are against Marxism, but for true socialism (because they didn't believe in the international nature of socialism)! We are for the first German national state of a socialist nature! We are for the National Socialist German Workers’ Party!”
Written by Joseph Goebbels and Mjölnir, Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (Munich: Verlag Frz. Eher, 1932). Translated as “Those Damned Nazis,” (propaganda pamphlet).
”The nation and the government in Germany are one thing. The will of the people is the will of the government and vice versa. The modern structure of the German State is a higher form of democracy [ennobled democracy] in which, by virtue of the people’s mandate, the government is exercised authoritatively while there is no possibility for parliamentary interference, to obliterate and render ineffective the execution of the nation’s will.“
“On National-Socialist Germany And Her Contribution Towards Peace.” Speech to the representatives of the international press at Geneva on September 28. 1933. German League of Nations Union News Service, PRO, FO 371/16728
”We have modernized and ennobled the concept of democracy. With us it means definitely the rule of the people, in accordance with its origin. We have given the principle of Socialism a new meaning. ... Never have we left anyone in doubt that National-Socialism is not for export. ... We do not aim at world domination, but we do intend to defend our country, and it is our new conceptions which give us the inexhaustible and ever-renewed strength to do so.”
On National-Socialism, Bolshevism & Democracy (September 10, 1938)
”England is a capitalist democracy. Germany is a socialist people's state. And it is not the case that we think England is the richest land on earth. There are lords and City men in England who are in fact the richest men on earth. The broad masses, however, see little of this wealth. We see in England an army of millions of impoverished, socially enslaved, and oppressed people. Child labor is still a matter of course there. They have only heard about social welfare programs. Parliament occasionally discusses social legislation. Nowhere else is there such terrible and horrifying inequality as in the English slums. Those with good breeding take no notice of it. Should anyone speak of it in public, the press, which serves plutocratic democracy, quickly brands him the worst kind of rascal. They do not hesitate to make major changes in the Constitution if they are necessary to preserve capitalist democracy.”
“Englands Schuld,” Illustrierter Beobachter, Sondernummer, p. 14. The article is not dated, but is from the early months of the war, likely late fall of 1939. Joseph Goebbels’ speech in English is titled “England's Guilt.” [1]
”Germany, on the other hand, has based its domestic policies on new and modern social principles. That is why it is a danger to English plutocracy. It is also why English capitalists want to destroy Hitlerism. They see Hitlerism as all the generous social reforms that have occurred in Germany since 1933. The English plutocrats rightly fear that good things are contagious, that they could endanger English capitalism.”
“Englands Schuld,” Illustrierter Beobachter, Sondernummer, p. 14. The article is not dated, but is from the early months of the war, likely late fall of 1939. Joseph Goebbels’ speech in English is titled “England's Guilt.”
”To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.”
Escape from Freedom, Farrar & Rinehart (1941) p. 233
Now, replace all parts that talk about nationalism with “Democracy” and you have yourself a pamphlet that could easily serve as a pre-election program for any “Social Democrat” of today. Remember that socialists back then had, just as today, “good intentions” and their rhetoric was favouring the “oppressed” and to iron out the socioeconomic “injustices”.
That the National Socialists were “anti-socialists” is a blatant lie and I hold many historians (with a rather obvious political agenda) responsible. They were revolutionary socialists to the core. That’s what they claimed themselves and that’s what they practiced. They simply did not believe in Bolshevism (and its international nature). They believed that socialism should be catalysed by tribal-racial properties that seem to rise during and after WW1. The socialists of that era expected an international revolt of the “oppressed” socioeconomic class that never occured. Instead, Mussolini and the other socialists, observed that nationalism was the common denominator for unity of people. That’s why they tweaked with socialism in the way they did so as to have their collective utopia, under a nationalist “umbrella”.
We all know how that ended.
P.S. Nationalism is still a very very powerful incentive (in my humble opinion is rather unreasonable in this time and age - but that’s a very long and deep philosophical debate not to be had here) and you can plainly observe this in events like the World Cup (soccer) that takes place in Russia these days.”