“The meaning of socialism is that life is dominated not by the contrast of rich and poor but by rank as determined by achievement and ability. That is our kind of freedom: freedom from the economic capriciousness of the individual.”

Prussianism and Socialism (1919)

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German historian and philosopher 1880–1936

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