Johann Plenge
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Johann Plenge (June 7, 1874 - 11 September, 1963) was a German Hegelian sociologist. He was professor of political economy at the University of Munster. In his book 1789 and 1914 he contrasted the 'Ideas of 1789' (liberty) and the 'Ideas of 1914' (organisation). Plenge argued: "under the necessity of war socialist ideas have been driven into German economic life, its organisation has grown together into a new spirit, and so the assertion of our nation for mankind has given birth to the idea of 1914, the idea of German organisation, the national unity of state socialism". [1]
[edit] Books
- Johann Plenge, Marx and Hegel (1911)
- Johann Plenge, 1789 and 1914. The Symbolic Years in the History of the Political Mind (1916)
