“From a strictly technical viewpoint, socialism is the principle of public service. In the final analysis every worker has the status not of a businessman, but of a public servant, as does every employer..”

— Oswald Spengler

Prussianism and Socialism (1919)

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German historian and philosopher 1880–1936

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