Germany's Third Empire by Arthur Moeller van den Bruck

Author:Arthur Moeller van den Bruck [van den Bruck, Arthur Moeller]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Politics
Publisher: https://c3jemx2ube5v5zpg.onion
Published: 1934-08-29T04:00:00+00:00

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When the masses advanced in 1918 their movement came from the depths.

They called their movement a proletarian one. They spoke of a socialist revolution. They invoked the name of Marx. But their revolution was only an insurrection. The only watchword that issued from the throats of the demonstrators was “DOWN!” They could pour out into the streets. They could tear down a flag. They could snatch epaulettes from people’s shoulders. But that was all they were able to do—yet it was able to destroy a nation, a country and an empire.

Weitling once prophesied: “I see a second Messias coming with a sword to enforce the teaching of the first.” But this annunciation of an approaching reign of justice was obscured by the later calculations of Marx whose reckoning took no heed of Man or the Son of Man, but only of the method of production, and whose political hypothesis depended on a fraternal International, materialist and rationalist, which was to usher socialism in. And now a nation which has been suckled on the Marxist creed had surrendered its sword and put its hope in the masses instead of the Messias. Suddenly released from the terror of war our foes fell on each other’s necks for sheer malicious delight that a credulous people had abandoned a world war for the sake of an eternity of world peace. They fell on each other’s necks, prince and pauper, soldier and civilian, for joy over the unbelievable ingenuousness of the German people.

The hullabaloo of the Tenth of November passed. The tribune with the inflated cheeks and the hanging curls was able to announce to the Reichstag: “The German people has been victorious all along the line!” The days of irresponsibility passed, proclamations fluttered down through the fog and the independents, handsomely paid with bolshevist gold, their sapping work accomplished, were able to announce with satisfaction: “Party comrades, we address you with joy and pride!” The consequences followed: even before the Armistice, negotiations had been carried through by this same carefree, unscrupulous, easily-swayed, light-hearted individual, who with his usual obliging promptitude set his hand to the unpleasant task. Reality overtook those who had now assumed responsibility not only for the state but for the nation: though never before had their thoughts been occupied with the nation. They had been preparing the proletariat for a class war; in the meantime it had lost the war of nations.

It was a clique of petty persons who now met in the offices of the fallen government. When they crossed the threshold they were entering the scene not only of William II’s glory but of Bismarck’s. To the end of time the German Revolution will be characterized by the total lack of personality amongst those who carried it out; not a man of them stood out by his stature above the mediocrity usual among German politicians.

There were decent well-meaning folk amongst them, who had spent their lives serving their party. They tackled the tasks that crowded in on them with the best intentions.

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