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Gregor Strasser, Motherhood And Warriorhood As The Key To A National Socialism

1995; Brill; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/oso/9780192892492.003.0068

2211-6257

Roger Griffin,

Economic and Social Issues

Abstract We are socialists. We are enemies, deadly enemies, of today’s capitalist economic system with its exploitation of the economically weak, its unfair wage system, its immoral way of judging the worth of human beings in terms of their wealth and their money, instead of their responsibility and performance, and we are determined to destroy this system whatever happens![... ] And yet it is not enough just to change the system, to replace one economic system by another; what is needed above all is to change the spirit! The spirit to be overcome is the spirit of materialism![... ] We must learn that work means more than possessions! Performance is more than dividends! It is the most wretched legacy of this capitalist system that the criterion for everything’s value is money, wealth, possessions! The decline of a people is the inevitable consequence of the use of this yardstick, because selection on the basis of property is the arch-enemy of race, blood, life! We have never left any doubts about the fact that our national socialism [nationaler Sozialismus] puts an end to the privileges of wealth, and that the emancipation of the worker involves participation in profits, property, and management.