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> It was invented by a Nazi over 120 years ago That'd be a good trick, given that there were no Nazis until 1920.

• dragonwriter 5y ago
  > That'd be a good trick, given that there were no Nazis until 1920. It was in a work published starting in 1902 (though the part concerning late-stage capitalism was published in 1927) by a German Marxist [0] (at the time he wrote coined the term) who became a nationalist in the Weimar era to the point that some of his writings later in the early 1930s apparently aligned to a certain extent with Nazi ideology, but who was putting out anti-Nazi writings (actively suppressed by the Nazis) by the late 1930s. So, while “by a Nazi over 120 years ago” is not really accurate at all, it has some recognizable connection to facts. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Sombart https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Sombart