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''The suspect that in reality a people never has to choose between different forms of government. Only the disguise can be chosen, not the spirit nor the essence. Although public opinion constantly confuses the two. What one writes into a constitution is always unessential. What the general instinct gradually makes out of it is what matters''

Spenglers admiration for Bebel is fascinating.

Instead of battles against capitalism, they won the battles against storehouses, window panes and state coffers.

''Where one expected heroes, one found freed convicts, literati, deserters, screaming and stealing, due to lack of danger drunk with their importance, wandering about, deposing, ruling, beating, writing poetry.''

They haven't changed, that pompous literati and their ignorant followers.