Page "Werner Sombart" Paragraph 16

In 1934 he published Deutscher Sozialismus where he claimed a " new spirit " was beginning to " rule mankind ".

The age of capitalism and proletarian socialism was over and with " German socialism " ( National-Socialism ) taking over.

This German socialism puts the " welfare of the whole above the welfare of the individual ".

German socialism must effect a " total ordering of life " with a " planned economy in accordance with state regulations ".

The new legal system will confer on individuals " no rights but only duties " and that " the state should never evaluate individual persons as such, but only the group which represents these persons ".

German socialism is accompanied by the Volksgeist ( national spirit ) which is not racial in the biological sense but metaphysical: " the German spirit in a Negro is quite as much within the realm of possibility as the Negro spirit in a German ".

The antithesis of the German spirit is the Jewish spirit, which is not a matter of being born Jewish or believing in Judaism but is a capitalistic spirit.

The English people possess the Jewish spirit and the " chief task " of the German people and National Socialism is to destroy the Jewish spirit.