• bigbologna [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Marxism has no right to disguise itself as socialism. Socialism, unlike Marxism, does not repudiate private property.

    • Interview with George Sylvester Viereck, 1923

    We National Socialists see in private property a higher level of human economic development that according to the differences in performance controls the management of what has been accomplished enabling and guaranteeing the advantage of a higher standard of living for everyone.

    • Speech made at the Reichstag (21 May 1935)

    I absolutely insist on protecting private property. It is natural and salutary that the individual should be inspired by the wish to devote a part of the income from his work to building up and expanding a family estate. Suppose the estate consists of a factory. I regard it as axiomatic, in the ordinary way, that this factory will be better run by one of the members of the family that it would be by a State functionary—providing, of course, that the family remains healthy. In this sense, we must encourage private initiative.

    • A private statement made on March 24, 1942

    These admittedly aren't like perfect "I am pro-capitalist" quotes but this is as close to that as you can get.