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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.

— Oswald Spengler Prussianism and Socialism (1919)

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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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Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

In reality money, like numbers and law, is a category of thought. There is a monetary, just as there is a juristic and a mathematical and a technical, thinking of the world-around.

All young [religious] sects are at bottom hostile to State and property, class and rank, and are attracted to universal equality.

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