If anything this is just an indication of how Feudal pre-WW1 Germany still was. Like capitalism challenges the old landed aristocracy by creating a new aristocracy around the control of capital, most of the landed nobility is going to do just fine but they resent the rise of this new class of people whose power is not (strictly) tied to being in the old noble caste.
Also, 1000% when he says capitalism is immoral and corrupting he was thinking about the Jews.
One of my favorite historical interludes is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Forgotten today, it was the peace treaty that won the war for the Germans on the Eastern Front. On one side you have aristocratic Prussian Junkers, complete with spiked helmets and monocles. On the other, the Bolsheviks, who tbh resemble a lot of today's comrades. Seeing these two sides collide was really entertaining. They didn't just have stale diplomacy, they had socials, dinners together and everything.
Count Ottokar Czernin, Former Austro-Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, was there and wrote about it in his book "In the World War" (1920). Here's a choice comment:
They are strange creatures, these Bolsheviks. They talk of freedom and the reconciliation of the peoples of the world, of peace and unity, and withal they are said to be the most cruel tyrants history has ever known. They are simply exterminating the bourgeoisie, and their arguments are machine-guns and the gallows. My talk to-day with Joffe has shown me that these people are not honest, and in falsity surpass all that cunning diplomacy has been accused of, for to oppress decent citizens in this fashion and then talk at the same time of the universal blessing of freedom - it is sheer lying.
He literally can't see that they're eliminating those like him, and to him, the rest of the population aren't people like he is. One still sees this attitude in today's ruling class, that they're the only ones who are real people, the rest of us aren't really equivalent except perhaps biologically being the same species.
They are simply exterminating the bourgeoisie, and their arguments are machine-guns and the gallows
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Critical support for Kaiser Wilhelm II in his heroic struggle against the genocidal American, British and Russian empires.
Cringe ultra "socialism button" Rosa wanted to sabotage the anti-imperialist war effort
you know you have it bad when the fucking KAISER is dunking on you
The Nazis went to the American South to study segregation and concluded that it would be too extreme to implement in Nazi Germany.
Communism killed not only a certain number of people (specifics irrelevant), but it also killed every person who could ever potentially have descended from those people. Considering that one of those people could theoretically have discovered a way to prevent the universe from eventually ending, communism literally killed the entire universe and everything in it. That's a death toll of infinity.
Still think communism is cool? Didn't think so.
Isn't this the guy who believed so hard in blood quantum that he believed he was genetically predisposed to being a naval superpower because he had British ancestry, which then led him to pour a shit ton of money into building up a German Naval force that he almost immediately sunk?
but maybe his reason for hating capitalism was sis? Like did he consider it too "liberating" or "equal" or something?
issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the imperialist monarch Wilhelm I. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to him"
Sometimes I think that germany was the closest thing to good guys in ww1.
I like to think that somswhere on a qeird website there are a bunch of weird guy that like ww1 germany and look down on ww2 germany fans.
Well, in WW1 a big part of the population of Germany weren't cheering genocide, not that they wouldn't, but they weren't.
