It is the fact of facts within the world-as-history. Life is alpha and omega, the cosmic stream in microcosmic form. Money is overthrown and abolished only by blood. A power can be overthrown only by another power, not by a principle, and no power that can confront money is left but this one. Law needs, in order to resist this onslaught, a high tradition and an ambition of strong families that finds its satisfaction not in the heaping-up of riches, but in the tasks of true rulership, above and beyond all money-advantage. They want to make the laws themselves, in their interests, and to that end they make use of the tool they have made for themselves, democracy, the subsidized party. The private powers of the economy want free paths for their acquisition of great resources. If we call these money-powers 'Capitalism,' then we may designate as Socialism the will to call into life a mighty politico-economic order that transcends all class interests, a system of lofty thoughtfulness and duty-sense that keeps the whole in fine condition for the decisive battle of its history, and this battle is also the battle of money and law. The sword is victorious over the money, the master-will subdues again the plunderer-will. After a long triumph of world-city economy and its interests over political creative force, the political side of life manifests itself after all as the stronger of the two. “The coming of Caesarism breaks the dictature of money and its political weapon, democracy.
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