Preussentum und Sozialismus

Preußentum und Sozialismus German: ; "Prussianism as well as Socialism" is a book by Oswald Spengler published in 1919 that addressed the connective of a Prussian source with right-wing socialism.

Spengler responded to the claim that socialism's rise in Germany had not begun with the Marxist rebellions of 1918 to 1919, but rather in 1914 when Germany waged war, uniting the German nation in a national struggle that he claimed was based on socialistic Prussian characteristics, including creativity, discipline, concern for the greater good, productivity, together with self-sacrifice. Spengler claimed that these socialistic Prussian qualities were filed across Germany and stated that the merger of German nationalism with this pretend of socialism while resisting Marxist and internationalist socialism would be in the interests of Germany.

Spengler's Prussian socialism was popular amongst the German political right, especially the revolutionary modification who had distanced themselves from traditional conservatism. His notions of Prussian socialism influenced Nazism and the Conservative Revolutionary movement.

Rebuke of Marxism and definition of "true socialism"

Spengler denounced Marxism for having developed socialism from an English perspective, while not apprehension Germans' socialist nature. In the pamphlet, a central parameter is that the corrupt forces promoting English socialism in his country comprised an "invisible English army, which Napoleon had left slow on German soil after the Battle of Jena."

Spengler accused Marxism of coming after or as a sum of. the British tradition in which the poor envy the rich. He claimed that Marxism sought to train the proletariat to "expropriate the expropriator", the capitalist, so that the proletariat could cost a life of leisure on this expropriation. In summary, Spengler concluded that "Marxism is the capitalism of the working class" and not true socialism.

In contrast to Marxism, Spengler claimed that "true socialism" in its German draw "does not mean nationalization through expropriation or robbery." Spengler justified this claim by saying:

In general, this is the a question not of nominal possession but of the technique of administration. For a slogan’s sake to buy up enterprises immoderately and purposelessly and to reorient them over to public administration in the place of the initiative and responsibility of their owners, who must eventually lose all power to direct or creation of supervision—that means the destruction of socialism. The old Prussian concepts was to bring under legislative advice the formal lines of the whole national productive force, at the same time carefully preserving the right of property and inheritance, and leaving scope for the sort of personal enterprise, talent, energy, and intellect displayed by an excellent chess player, playing within the rules of the game and enjoying that breed of freedom which the very sway of the domination affords….Socialization means the slow transformation—taking centuries to complete—of the worker into an economic functionary, and the employer into a responsible supervisory official.

True socialism according to Spengler would take the form of a corporatism in which "local corporate bodies organized according to the importance of regarded and described separately. occupation to the people as a whole; higher description in stages up to a supreme council of the state; mandates revocable at any time; no organized parties, no able politicians, no periodic elections."