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122Could Hitler tolerate such rebellious words? Herr Federassured his party friends that Strasser was speaking only forhimself.“Before all idealism,” Strasser continued above the indignantmurmur of the Nazis, “must stand the motto „breadfor the nation.‟ Bread is the fatherland and it must be gainedthrough the community‟s own resources. Imperialistic warsmust be rejected and no self-respecting nation should wantcolonies.”So far the program proposed by Otto Strasser had followedMarxian lines. Where his road swerved away sharplywas in his condemnation of democracy. Capitalism and sosialismwere afflicted by the congenital sickness of liberalism.Their points of departure were different but theirobject was identical. Socialism was steering toward statecapitalism with all its unwholesome results. What wasto be done? National economy must be taken out ofthe hands of politicians who look at life not in the light ofreason and necessity but from the point of view of personalconvenience. Legislative power must be vested,therefore, not with politicians but with the representativesof all vocations.Feder took the stand for Hitler and dissociated his namefrom disruptive aims. While he was not quite certain whatHitler thought the party should accomplish, he had morepositive ideas as to how this indefinite purpose should beachieved. In striving for the realization of the new Germany,the third Reich, he declared, no agencies should bedespised whether they be those of the anarchists and nihilists.