That democracy and universal suffrage are reliable tools of capitalism has been

That democracy and universal suffrage are reliable tools of capitalism has been proved in all countries that have adopted these methods on the English model.

While the liberal professor hails the Constitution of Weimar as the fulfilment of his dreams, the capitalist liberal welcomes it as the simplest and probably cheapest way to subject politics to the business office and the state to the grafters.

All this characterises the hegemony of the Viking spirit over Western civilisation, which up to now has been largely English civilisation.

—Oswald Spengler 1919

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