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According to the 1938 book Der Bolschewismus (Bolshevism), “such social conditions facing the German worker were the product of liberalism. Like the Renaissance, it glorified the freedom of action and development of the individual, which means the same thing as unscrupulously advancing one’s personal interests. In his 1935 work Odal, Dr. Johannes von Leers added, “Liberalism’s preaching about the unconditional rights of the economically more powerful is so blinding, that de facto economic slavery is considered progress. Leers described the impressions of a typical German farm hand entering the industrial work force, in order to demonstrate the susceptibility to Marxist preaching: “Everywhere he encounters a merciless system of capitalist commerce. His only value is as the seller of himself as a 'labor commodity.'... From poorly compensated work to unemployment and then back to work again for low wages, despised by the educated class, watched suspiciously by the police, it’s no wonder he becomes indignant.

Der Bolschewismus related a further source of resentment as labors' standard of living compared with that of people in affluent neighborhoods: “The man of the stock exchange and factory owners build villas in exceptional, well laid-out sections of the growing cities. The contrast to their own wretched quarters in overcrowded lodging houses, near the smoking chimneys of the factories, becomes ever more apparent to the masses of workers.In Odal, Leers wrote that only because German society turned a blind eye to the distress of the working people were the Communists able to recruit them: “The country’s propertied and educated strata, in contrast to the English upper class which was far more responsible about this, blocked any genuine, concrete social reform. It was their selfish belief in the laws of free trade, their heartlessness and callousness."

- Richard Tedor, Hitler's Revolution