{{cquote|The worker in a capitalist state — and that is his deepest misfortune — is no longer a living human being, a creator, a maker. He has become a machine. A number, a cog in the machine without sense or understanding. He is alienated from what he produces.<ref>Joseph Goebbels and Mjölnir, ''[http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/haken32.htm Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken] [“The cursed swastika. Something to think about”]'' (Munich: Verlag Frz. Eher, 1932), trans. Randall Bytwerk, Calvin College</ref>}}
{{cquote|The worker in a capitalist state — and that is his deepest misfortune — is no longer a living human being, a creator, a maker. He has become a machine. A number, a cog in the machine without sense or understanding. He is alienated from what he produces.<ref>Joseph Goebbels and Mjölnir, ''[http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/haken32.htm Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken] [“The cursed swastika. Something to think about”]'' (Munich: Verlag Frz. Eher, 1932), trans. Randall Bytwerk, Calvin College</ref>}}
As Nazi ideologist Gregor Strasser put it:
As Nazi ideologist Gregor Strasser put it:
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{{cquote|''We are Socialists,'' are enemies, mortal enemies of the present capitalist economic system with its exploitation of the economically weak, with its injustice in wages, with its immoral evaluation of individuals according to wealth and money instead of responsibility and achievement, and we are determined under all circumstances to abolish this system! And with my inclination to practical action it seems obvious to me that we have to put a better, more just, more moral system in its place, one which, as it were, has arms and legs and better arms and legs than the present one!<ref>Gregory Strasser, "Thoughts about the Tasks of the Future" (1926), reprinted in Barbara Miller Lane and Leila J. Rupp (eds.), ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=_JghDQAAQBAJ Nazi Ideology Before 1933: A Documentation]'' (University of Texas Press, 2014) ISBN 1477304452, p. 89</ref>}} [Emphasis in original]
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{{cquote|''We are Socialists,'' are enemies, mortal enemies of the present capitalist economic system with its exploitation of the economically weak, with its injustice in wages, with its immoral evaluation of individuals according to wealth and money instead of responsibility and achievement, and we are determined under all circumstances to abolish this system! And with my inclination to practical action it seems obvious to me that we have to put a better, more just, more moral system in its place, one which, as it were, has arms and legs and better arms and legs than the present one! [Emphasis in original]<ref>Gregory Strasser, "Thoughts about the Tasks of the Future" (1926), reprinted in Barbara Miller Lane and Leila J. Rupp (eds.), ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=_JghDQAAQBAJ Nazi Ideology Before 1933: A Documentation]'' (University of Texas Press, 2014) ISBN 1477304452, p. 89</ref>}}