“The world revolution, however, will not be that which Marx envisaged; it will rather be that which Nietzsche foresaw.” Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, Das Dritte Reich (1923)
“Currently, owing to a 19th century habit of overestimating the economic factor, we characterize the conflict by the superficial terms “socialism” and “capitalism.” What is actually taking place behind this verbal façade is the last great struggle of the Faustian soul.”
Oswald Spengler, Preußentum und Sozialismus (1919)
“The revolutionary use of force by the masses is an expression of immediate life, often wild and barbaric, but never systematically horrible and inhuman.” Carl Schmitt, Die geistesgeschichtliche Lage des heutigen Parlamentarismus (1923)
“Russian Bolshevism and Italian fascism are kindred phenomena, they are signs of an epoch. They hate each other like brothers. They are both messengers of ‘Caesarism’, which sounds somewhere in the distance in the nebulous ‘music of the future’.” Nikolai Ustrialov, Pod znakom revolutsii (1927)
“Here, in architecture, the peculiarity of our time is strikingly evident: hitherto the artistic structures had been the tombs of kings or the places in which they held their courts or the community hall, or they served sacred purposes… today the artistic building serves as a business office or it has no meaning at all…” Werner Sombart, Deutscher Sozialismus (1934)
