“The social is a stopgap. Socialism is the ideology of the future.”

—  Joseph Goebbels

Open Letter to Ernst Graf zu Reventlow in the Völkische Freiheit, 1925, as quoted in Goebbels: A Biography, Peter Longerich, Random House, 2015, p. 55
1920s

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