Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters (4) – Underrated Silence

Written, produced and recorded by Ulrich Schnauss and Mark Peters at home.
Thanks to emil for the title.

Fascism has opened up the depths of society for politics. Today, not only in peasant homes but also in
city skyscrapers, there lives alongside of the twentieth century the tenth or the thirteenth. A hundred million
people use electricity and still believe in the magic power of signs and exorcisms. The Pope of Rome broadcasts over
the radio about the miraculous transformation of water into wine. Movie stars go to mediums. Aviators who pilot
miraculous mechanisms created by man's genius wear amulets on their sweaters. What inexhaustible reserves they
possess of darkness, ignorance, and savagery! Despair has raised them to their feet fascism has given them a banner.
Everything that should have been eliminated from the national organism in the form of cultural excrement in the
course of the normal development of society has now come gushing out from the throat; capitalist society is puking
up the undigested barbarism. Such is the physiology of National Socialism.

Leon Trotsky, What Is National Socialism? (1933)