Joseph Goebbels

“ Why Are We Socialists?

We are socialists because we see in socialism,that is the union of all citizens, the only chance to maintain our racial inheritance and to regain our political freedom and renew our German state.

Socialism is the doctrine of liberation for the working class.

— Joseph Goebbels, “Those Damned Nazis”

“ Sozialist sein: das heißt, das Ich dem Du unterordnen, die Persönlichkeit der Gesamtheit zum Opfer bringen. Sozialismus ist im tiefsten Sinne Dienst.

To be a socialist means to subordinate the I to the You, to sacrifice individuality for the benefit of the whole. Socialism is in the deepest sense service.

— Joseph Goebbels, Michael: ein Deutsches Schicksal in Tagebuchblattern, 1926, p. 25

See also

• National Socialism