“Capitalism,” Der Angriff (The Attack) (15 July 1929) as quoted in English translation Attack: Essays from the Time of Struggle, RJG Enterprises (2010) p. 221

Never in world history has a new worldview—and socialism is such a thing—triumphed in capitulation, always only in resistance, in attack. In 1918 there was only one task for the German socialist: to keep the weapons and defend German socialism. One did not do that. One talked and made resolutions, and the German worker did not notice at all that in the process he just held the stirrups of his bitterest enemy, world money.

— Joseph Goebbels

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Never in world history has a new worldview—and socialism is such a thing—triumphed in capitulation, always only in resistance, in attack. In 1918 there was only one task for the German socialist: to keep the weapons and defend German socialism. One did not do that. One talked and made resolutions, and the German worker did not notice at all that in the process he just held the stirrups of his bitterest enemy, world money." in the context of "“Capitalism,” Der Angriff (The Attack) (15 July 1929) as quoted in English translation Attack: Essays from the Time of Struggle, RJG Enterprises (2010) p. 221" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Joseph Goebbels

About Joseph Goebbels

Paul Joseph Goebbels (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was Adolf Hitler's Propaganda Minister in Nazi Germany. He was a German Nazi politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler's closest and most devoted associates, and was known for his skills in public speaking and his deeply virulent antisemitism, which was evident in his publicly voiced views. He advocated progressively harsher discrimination, including the extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust.