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The rise of National Socialism is the protest of a people against a State that denies the right to work. If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered. The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people.

Gregor Strasser#4

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About this quote

What does it mean?
National Socialism is framed as a reaction against an economic system that fails to provide work and distribute wealth fairly.
In plain terms
People rise up when the state denies work and the economy fails to share wealth.
What can you take from it?
Economic failure fuels political protest and anti-capitalist sentiment.

Where it applies

  • economic crisis
  • political movements
  • labor disputes

Putting it to work

  • study economic causes of extremism
  • analyze labor protests

Questions to consider

  • How does unemployment drive political change?
  • When does economic failure justify systemic change?

Another view

The quote simplifies complex economic grievances into a single ideology.

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