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Death, for the author of the John Gospel as for the strict Moslem, is not the end of life, but a Something, a death-force, that contends with a life-force for the possession of man.

— Oswald Spengler

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The dictature of money marches on, tending to its material peak, in the Faustian Civilization as in every other.

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Marxism is the capitalism of the working class.

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War is the eternal pattern of higher human existence, and countries exist for war’s sake; they are signs of readiness for war.

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Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

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