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Alfred Rosenberg

the foundation of these, it is the already mentioned technical
understanding.
The Marxist world-view sweeps over the masses like a stiff
broom that equalises all. If the workers unite, if they defend their
interests robustly, if the Germans form groups fighting one another,
the character of the people itself will produce something fruitful;
on the other hand, where an alien mind wishes to impose itself in
terms of world-view or in the social arena, and it does that with an
intolerance which rejects everything else fanatically, every serious
man must ask himself if that does not signify a great danger. Further,
the internationalism that is preached is anti-national, and that means
in principle civil war in all nations and the downfall of entire cultured
European nations. Werner Sombart, for example, says expressly that
the bourgeois international unions stand on national soil, but the
proletariat internationalism is, and must be, markedly anti-
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national. The opposition of interests had in the last years, thanks
to the prudent leadership of some German socialists, taken a form
that rejected the dictatorship of the proletariat and expected the rule
of socialism from a change in ways of thought. But in the present
time, when discipline and moral resistance are loosened, it is
everywhere Jews who preach it in its most brutal form.
And this dogmatic rigidity that cannot be disturbed by
anything - taught by the energy, cultivated for a thousand years, of a
section of the population living in hard circumstances, of a mass
that did not know anything of history, that hardly knew the value
and the stamp of its own racial soul - that had to strike roots. The
doctrine that placed the dissatisfaction with entrepreneurs in a world-
view that was to be established in a historical manner, which
proclaimed class-struggle as the only factor ofworld-history, had to
find followers. The movement that was not able to grasp the goal

448 Sozialismus und sociale Bewegung [1 896], [Werner Sombart (1 863-1 941) was
an economist and sociologist who is famous for his Die Juden und das
Wirtschaftsleben (1911), a reply to Max Weber's Die protestantische Ethik und
der Geist des Kapitalismus (1904/5).]
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[August Bebel ( 1 840- 1 9 1 3 ) was a German social ist who was one ofthe founders
of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).]
450 These lines were written in 1919, before the foundation of the NSDAP.
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