Social security was fascism’s one truthful propaganda slogan and its strongest weapon.

Evidence

Unemployment assistance, health and accident insurance, invalidity and old-age pensionsthat is how National Socialism wins the passive toleration of the masses for the time being. Social security is its one propaganda slogan built on the truth, perhaps the one powerful weapon in its whole propagandistic machinery. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 310

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School’s culture-industry account of how material provision buys consent rather than genuine loyalty.