You cannot give something without first taking it. Love is not free, people need to eat in order to have a beating heart.
All is not a conflict though. I think the lipstick you wear has oozed chemicals in that mind of yours, unable to see the truth that clearly. For instance, if a woman gets off to being cut in half, and she sacrifices herself willingly, where is the conflict?
I dunno about you, but I’m gettin’ money. Somebody had to give me that money, as well as build the thing to print the money, which was taken from steel inside the Earth.
Both giving (for example in order to get peace) and taking (for example in order to get peace) are two sides of the same thing: on the one hand war is behind you and peace in front of you, on the other hand peace is behind you and war in front of you. There is always the same or at least a similar situation; the duration is different, but the question is always merely: what is next?
That’s the discredited Malthusian/game theory (“zero sum”) viewpoint, which is just an illusion created by capitalism*, rather than a necessary fact of life.
I’ve read his book Decline Of The West. It is of course his most popular book.
Other books of his that I haven’t read yet but are on my list eventually would be Man And Technics along with Problem Of World-History And The Destiny Of Mankind.
I also recommend: “Preußentum und Sozialismus” (translation: “Prussiandom and Socialism”), 1919. This book can be read as a the direct continuation of his most popular book.
The book can be interpreted as a continuation of his most popular book, as I already said before, and about the comparision resp. the juxtaposition of Prussiandom and socialism. According to Spengler Prussiandom is just the opposite of socialism in a Marxistic sense. Spengler debunks Marx and says for example, that the Marxism betrays itself by any sentence that it stems from a theological and not political mindset, and that Marxism has internalized the “Manchestertum” (“Manchesterdom”) in spite of denying it. In another chapter of the book Spengler compares Prussians and Englishmen as well as Prussians and Spaniards by interpreting their history, comnig to the conclusion that they are the most “socialistic” (not meant in a Marxistic but in a Spenglerian or Goethean sense, namely in a “morphological” sense, as a way of life) peoples of the Occident, whereas Frenchmen and Italians are their antipodes. In order to understand Spengler rightly, one has to know that his method is a Goethean one, mostly based on contrastive pairs.
The chapters:
“Einleitung” (“Introduction”).
“Die Revolution” (“The Revolution”).
“Sozialismus als Lebensform” (“Socialism as Way of Life”).
“Engländer und Preußen” (“Prussians and Englishmen”).
“Marx” (“Marx”).
“Die Internationale” (“The International”).
There is, for example, an internet version of the book as it has been translated by Donald O. White. Note: The appropriate translation of “Preußentum” or “Preussentum” is not “Prussianism” (as it is translated by Donald O. White) but “Prussiandom”, because it was never meant as an “ism”. That also is important for the right understanding.