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It was said that what really matters is not how some class, how some individual person thinks about what should actually happen socially, but that it matters that one turns to those people in whose egoism, in whose entirely natural, elementary egoism it lies to shape the world as it must be shaped – and that is the proletarian demand. I would like to say that, precisely because of the modern spirit of science, every moral principle, every social view not based on egoism, has been eliminated. And as long as we do not realize what this means for the whole course of the world in modern times, and as long as we do not want to see how our social needs arise from the feelings and thoughts of human beings, we will not be able to approach what our time particularly needs in this respect.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"4. 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Man sagte, auf das komme es ja gar nicht an, wie irgendeine Klasse, wie irgendein einzelner Mensch denke darüber, was eigentlich sozial geschehen soll, sondern darauf komme es an, daß man sich an diejenigen Menschen wendet, in deren Egoismus, in deren ganz naturgemäßem elementaren Egoismus es liegt, die Welt so zu gestalten, wie sie eben gestaltet werden muß — und das ist die proletarische Forderung. Damit war, ich möchte sagen, gerade aus dem modernen Wissenschaftsgeiste heraus jegliches Moralprinzip, jegliche nicht auf den Egoismus gebaute soziale Anschauung ausgeschieden. 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