In Neurath’s view, the end of the war and the subsequent November Revolution in Germany offered a splendid opportunity to get full socialization underway. The main job had already been done, he claimed: now all that was needed was to turn the centrally planned war economy, which was already in place, into a system that was geared to peacetime needs.

— Exact thinking in demented times by Karl Sigmund (Page 85 - 86)