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Jun 14, 2009 8:32 AM
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I have seen discussion stiffled by both sides refusing to consider the points put forward by the other and instead addressing the point they wish to claim is put forward, or simply raising other points of their own with no attempt to address the origninal point.
Of course, but Hitler's point is finer than that. By 'playing stupid' he doesn't mean ignoring points, he means acting like a stupid person, name calling, s**tology (not allowed on history.com or you'd see it big time from the usual suspects), etc. That's Zionism to a T.
The Nazi party employed propaganda and played the masses very well
Hitler's analysis was perfect. His enemy was Marxism and its concomitants, Communism, Social Democracy, Trade Unions, and Jews. He correctly realized that you can't fight an idea with force alone, and he developed/revived the philosophy that came naturally to him, nationalism.
In the broad perspective, we can see Hitler vs. the communists as right vs. left, and since the left finally won altogether, as the old way of thinking, nationalism, versus the new way, internationalism.
Nationalism like Hitler knew it is now dead I think. Now we live with the leftist/communist ideals as a given, not open to question. There are holdouts I suppose, but they're destined for extinction.
For example, Hitler took racism as a given, obvious to any cognizant being. Now, racism is illegal. Hitler presumed survival of the fittest in society, now the nanny state is the rule. I think it was inevitable that eventually nationalism would have to go, and it went, big time.
The amazing thing is not Ch. 7, but Ch. 8, and his identification of international finance as the real culprit. A visionary, just from having his eyes open !
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The ideas that Mein Kampf is a racist rant, or turgid polemics, or poorly written, are not accurate. The book is for the most part, excluding the intricacies of the German/Austrian/Bavarian relationship, very clearly written, devoid of racism or polemics, and at least to me, relevant to today.
On to Ch. 8 - The German Worker's Party
This is Hitler's account of how he came to be member No. 7 in the German Worker's Party. It is after the war is lost, and Hitler is still in the Army.
" The revolution had given the soldiers the right of political activity, .....Not until the moment when the Center and the Social Democracy were forced to recognize, to their own grief, that the sympathies of the soldiers were beginning to turn away from the revolutionary parties toward the national movement and reawakening, did they see fit to deprive the troops of suffrage again and prohibit their political activity.
It was illuminating that the Center and the Marxists should have taken this measure, for if they had not undertaken this curtailment of ' civil rights '-as the political equality of the soldiers after the revolution was called-within a few years there would have been no revolution, and hence no more national dishonor and disgrace."
Hitler attends a lecture by G. Feder, and receives a small pamphlet. That is the beginning ...
"Since I regularly woke up before five o'clock in the morning, I had gotten in the habit of putting a few left-overs or crusts of bread on the floor for the mice which amused themselves in my little room, and watching the droll little beasts chasing around after these choice morsels. I had known so much poverty in my life that I was well able to imagine the hunger, and hence also the pleasure, of the little creatures.
At about five o'clock in the morning after this meeting, I thus lay awake in my cot, watching the chase and bustle. Since I could no longer fall asleep, I suddenly remembered the past evening and my mind fell on the booklet which the worker had given me. I began to read. "
Hitler describes the shortcomings of the "German Workers' Party", which has exaclty seven marks and fifty pfennigs in the treasury, no organization, no plan ..
"I now began to ask questions-but, aside from a few directives, there was nothing, no program, no leaflet, no printed matter at all, no membership cards, not even a miserable rubber stamp, only obvious good faith and good intentions."
Nonetheless, the pros outweigh the cons, and finally ...
"After two days of agonized pondering and reflection, I finally came to the conviction that I had to take this step.
It was the most decisive resolve of my life. From here there was and could be no turning back.
And so I registered as a member of the German Workers' Party and received a provisional membership card with the number 7."
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Ch. 10 - Causes of the Collapse, this is a long and tortuous chapter. Hitler rails against the political and social ills of the day, the decay, that he believes led to the loss of the war.
"Unfortunately, the military defeat of the German people is not an undeserved catastrophe, but the deserved chastisement of eternal retribution. We more than deserved this defeat. It is only the greatest outward symptom of decay amid a whole series of inner symptoms, which perhaps had remained hidden and invisible to the eyes of most people, or which like ostriches people did not want to see."
The defeat is bitter for Hitler -
"This (somberly, resolutely, S.) is how a defeat for which only fate was responsible would have been received. Then people would not have laughed and danced, they would not have boasted of cowardice and glorified the defeat, they would not have scoffed at the embattled troops and dragged their banner and cockade in the mud. But above all: then we should never have had the terrible state of affairs which prompted a British officer, Colonel Repington, to make the contemptuous statement: 'Of the Germans, every third man is a traitor.'"
The army was not responsible -
"It required the whole bottomless falsehood of the Jews and their Marxist fighting organization to lay the blame for the collapse on that very man who alone, with superhuman energy and will power, tried to prevent the catastrophe he foresaw and save the nation from its time of deepest humiliation and disgrace By branding Ludendorff as guilty for the loss of the World War they took the weapon of moral right from the one dangerous accuser who could have risen against the traitors to the fatherland. "
The decay - industrialization and commercialism instead of expansion
"When they renounced the acquisition of new soil and replaced it by the lunacy of world economic conquest, the result was bound to be an industrialization as boundless as it was harmful.
The first consequence of gravest importance was the weakening of the peasant class. Proportionately as the peasant class diminished, the mass of the big city proletariat increased more and more, until finally the balance was completely upset.
Now the abrupt alternation between rich and poor became really apparent. Abundance and poverty lived so close together that the saddest consequences could and inevitably did arise. Poverty and frequent unemployment began to play havoc with people, leaving behind them a memory of discontent and embitterment.
In proportion as economic life grew to be the dominant mistress of the state, money became the god whom all had to serve and to whom each man had to bow down.
The internationalization of the German economic life had been begun even before the War through the medium of stock issues To be sure, a part of German industry still attempted with resolution to ward off this fate. At length, however, it, too, fell a victim to the united attack of greedy finance capital which carried on this fight, with the special help of its most faithful comrade, the Marxist movement."
The decay - Hitler recognizes that the monarch is typically of a middling sort, but Germany suffered because the men around the monarch were
" miserable crawlers and sneaks-in short, all the decadents who have always felt more at ease around the highest thrones than sincere, decent, honorable souls-can regard this (compliance, S.) as the sole proper form of intercourse with the bearers of the crown!"
The decay - the press
"But what food did the German press (Jew dominated, S.) of the pre-War period dish out to the people? Was it not the worst poison that can even be imagined? Wasn't the worst kind of pacifism injected into the heart of our people at a time when the rest of the world was preparing to throttle Germany, slowly but surely?"
The decay - syphilis and prostitution !
"Particularly with regard to syphilis, the attitude of the leadership of the nation and the state can only be designated as total capitulation. "
Hitler continues at length. ( I must interject an editorial comment - think about the capitulation in the US to gays on the AIDS 'confidentiality' issue ... we have for the last 20 years had a completely preventable epidemic thanks to who, the Marxists, the politically correct crowd. Complete insanity, cultural and national suicide.)
The decay - the collapse of culture
"The truth of this is by no means limited to the field of general culture, but applies to politics as well. Revolutionary new movements will hate the old forms in proportion to their own inferiority.
Thus, the saddest thing about the state of our whole culture of the pre-War period was not only the total impotence of artistic and cultural creative power in general, but the hatred with which the memory of the greater past was besmirched and effaced."
(Think about that the next time you heard the names Noam Chomsky or Howard Zinn, S.)
The decay - cultural sites - the cultural monuments of the past were state buildings, churches, that belong to society. Now they are banks, hotels, commercial enterprises belonging to individuals.
The decay - spiritual
"For the political man, the value of a religion must be estimated less by its deficiencies than by the virtue of a visibly better substitute. As long as this appears to be lacking, what is present can be demolished only by fools or criminals."
(Again, Hitler is EXACTLY right, S.)
The decay - Parliament
"The regime of compromise seemed to be most in keeping with Bismarck's conception that 'politics is an art of the possible.' But between Bismarck and the later German chancellors there was a slight difference which made it permissible for the former to let fall such an utterance on the nature of politics while the same view from the mouths of his successors could not but take on an entirely different meaning. For Bismarck with this phrase only wanted to say that for the achievement of a definite political goal all possibilities should be utilized, or, in other words, that all possibilities should be taken into account; in the view of his successors, however, this utterance solemnly released them from the necessity of having any political ideas or goals whatever. "
The decay - poor planning on the part of the navy
Hitler briefly disccusses three strengths of the Reich - the stability of the monarchy and its independence from international finance, the army, and the civil service.
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Ch. 11 - Race and Nation
Hitler makes a strong argument for separation, that is, no interbreeding, between the races.
"Thus men without exception wander about in the garden of Nature; they imagine that they know practically everything and yet with few exceptions pass blindly by one of the most patent principles of Nature's rule: the inner segregation of the species of all living beings on this earth."
Beyond that, the races are not 'created equal', and
"Everything we admire on this earth today-science and art, technology and inventions-is only the creative product of a few peoples and originally perhaps of one race. On them depends the existence of this whole culture. If they perish, the beauty of this earth will sink into the grave with them."
"It is idle to argue which race or races were the original representative of human culture and hence the real founders of all that we sum up under the word 'humanity.' It is simpler to raise this question with regard to the present, and here an easy, clear answer results. All the human culture, all the results of art, science, and technology that we see before us today, are almost exclusively the creative product of the Aryan."
Hitler doesn't go further in defining who is and is not an Aryan, so the concept is not clear to me. Does it include slavs? If not, Tchaikovsky isn't included, so, that won't work. Equivalent to Caucasians? I don't know.
Why is the Aryan so great? I don't think Hitler's answer would withstand too much critical scrutiny.
"This self-sacrificing will to give one's personal labor and if necessary one's own life for others is most strongly developed in the Aryan. The Aryan is not greatest in his mental qualities as such, but in the extent of his willingness to put all his abilities in the service of the community. In him the instinct of self-preservation has reached the noblest form, since he willingly subordinates his own ego to-the life of the community and, if the hour demands, even sacrifices it."
So, Hitler is kind of an anti Ayn Rand. He continues ...
"As soon as egoism becomes the ruler of a people, the bands of order are loosened and in the chase after their own happiness men fall from heaven into a real hell."
This takes us right into part II of this chapter ....
"The mightiest counterpart to the Aryan is represented by the Jew. In hardly any people in the world is the instinct of self-preservation developed more strongly than in the so-called 'chosen.' "
Hitler assesses the characteristics of the Jews.
"The mental qualities of the Jew have been schooled in the course of many centuries. Today he passes as 'smart,' and this in a certain sense he has been at all times. But his intelligence is not the result of his own development, but of visual instruction through foreigners."
"Since the Jew-for reasons which will at once become apparent-was never in possession of a culture of his own, the foundations of his intellectual work were always provided by others. His intellect at all times developed through the cultural world surrounding him."
Now Hitler get's into some mental gymnastics, as he wants to show that in spite of the Jews survival as a group for three thousand years they are nonetheless individually supreme egoists.
"In the Jewish people the will to self-sacrifice does not go beyond the individual's naked instinct of self-preservation.
His sense of sacrifice is only apparent. It exists only as long as the existence of the individual makes it absolutely necessary. However, as soon as the common enemy is conquered, the danger threatening all averted and the booty hidden, the apparent harmony of the Jews among themselves ceases, again making way for their old causal tendencies. The Jew is only united when a common danger forces him to be or a common booty entices him; "
"So it is absolutely wrong to infer any ideal sense of sacrifice in the Jews from the fact that they stand together in struggle, or, better expressed, in the plundering of their fellow men.
Here again the Jew is led by nothing but the naked egoism of the individual."
This doesn't sound convincing to me. Hitler is zunwilling/unable to assign any positive attribute to the Jews, and this leads him to some necessarily tortured logic.
Hitler contrasts nomads and Jews.
"Since the Jew never possessed a state with definite territorial limits and therefore never called a culture his own, the conception arose that this was a people which should be reckoned among the ranks of the nomads. This is a fallacy as great as it is dangerous."
Nomadism results when a cultures technology does not allow it to exist in one place for too long, it must move to survive. Technology gave rise to more or less permanent settlements. These settlements preceded the advent of the Jews. Nomadism doesn't drive the wandering of the Jews, instead -
"His extension to ever-new countries occurs only in the moment in which certain conditions for his existence are there present, without which- unlike the nomad-he would not change his residence. He is and remains the typical parasite, a sponger who like a noxious bacillus keeps spreading as soon as a favorable medium invites him. And the effect of his existence is also like that of spongers: wherever he appears, the host people dies out after a shorter or longer period."
The reality of the Jews existence as a foreign element in a society leads to the Jews' fundamental character.
"The Jew's life as a parasite in the body of other nations and states explains a characteristic which once caused Schopenhauer, as has already been mentioned, to call him the 'great master in lying.' Existence impels the Jew to lies and to lie perpetually, just as it compels the inhabitants of the northern countries to wear warm clothing.
His life within other peoples can only endure for any length of time if he succeeds in arousing the opinion that he is not a.people but a 'religious community,' though of a special sort. And this is the first great lie."
Hitler regards the Jews 'religion' as a sham, not a religion but a means to and end, a ruse.
"The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion; only in order to get ahead he early sought for a means which could distract unpleasant attention from his person. And what would have been more expedient and at the same time more innocent than the 'embezzled' concept of a religious community? For here, too, everything is borrowed or rather stolen. Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks idealism in any form, and hence belief in a hereafter is absolutely foreign to him. And a religion in the Aryan sense cannot be imagined which lacks the conviction of survival after death in some form. Indeed, the Talmud is not a book to prepare a man for the hereafter, but only for a practical and profitable life in this world."
The chapter isn't finished - Hitler discusses the historical integration of Jews into German society - (to be continued)
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Re: Summer reading suggestion - Mein Kampf
Jun 22, 2009 2:29 PM
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Saggy,
There is certainly some very strange babbling in the book about race that was not understood properly - especially the part about Aryans, in Indo-Irainian people IIRC?
From your previous post;
The army was not responsible -
"It required the whole bottomless falsehood of the Jews and their Marxist fighting organization to lay the blame for the collapse on that very man who alone, with superhuman energy and will power, tried to prevent the catastrophe he foresaw and save the nation from its time of deepest humiliation and disgrace By branding Ludendorff as guilty for the loss of the World War they took the weapon of moral right from the one dangerous accuser who could have risen against the traitors to the fatherland. "
Whilst a nice popular view, it was deeply flawed by the simple fact it was the military that had failed. They certainly sold a good myth of the war though, from the wonderful plan that nobody could quite describe when the war finished even though they agreed it existed (the full details only appear far later) to the part about the war not being lost if the civilian government had not given in (ignoring it was the military who asked for an armistice after a military defeat, not shortages etc).
Whilst Ludendorff would probably have been a better leader than any of the Nazi's (maybe even Hindenburg), he was far from what Germany needed if a further war was to be avoided. Germany in the early years after the war needed stability and less extremists.
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Jun 23, 2009 7:05 AM
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There is certainly some very strange babbling in the book about race
In today's climate of political correctness, it is easy to characterize Hitler's writing on race as strange babbling. Whereas in reality, it is the simplest statement of what is in accordance with abundant and overwhelming evidence. Yesterday, racism was obvious to all, today it is almost illegal.
Whilst a nice popular view, it was deeply flawed by the simple fact it was the military that had failed.
Ultimately the military failed, but Hitler points out that the communists/Jews/SDs were undermining the war effort in Germany to the point of strikes against arms suppliers. And, there is also the question of the Jewish bankers getting the US into the war. Unfortunately, my knowledge of the history of the era is non-existent ... so I can't evaluate the arguments.
One aside is that after reading Hitler I have no idea why WW I was fought. He was so happy to go to war that no explanation was required !
Ch. 11 - Race and Nation - continued
Hitler analyzes the role of Jews in society.
"(a) With the appearance of the first fixed settlement, the Jew is suddenly 'at hand.' He comes as a merchant and at first attaches little importance to the concealment of his nationality.
(b) Gradually he begins slowly to become active in economic life, not as a producer, but exclusively as a middleman.
(c) The Jew has now become a steady resident; that is, he settles special sections of the cities and villages and more and more constitutes a state within a state.
(d) Finance and commerce have become his complete monopoly."
Now the problems begin for the Jew.
"His usurious rates of interest finally arouse resistance, the rest of his increasing effrontery indignation, his wealth envy.
At times of the bitterest distress, fury against him finally breaks out, and the plundered and ruined masses begin to defend themselves against the scourge of God."
The response of the Jews is to affiliate with the powerful in the society, historically, princes.
"(e) Now the Jew begins to reveal his true qualities. With repulsive flattery he approaches the governments, puts his money to work, and in this way always manages to secure new license to plunder his victims.
(f) Proportionately as the power of the princes begins to mount, he pushes closer and closer to them. He begs for ' patents ' and 'privileges,' which the lords, always in financial straits, are glad to give him for suitable payment.
(g) And so, his ensnarement of the princes leads to their ruin. "
With the collapse of the established hierarchy, the Jews must and is able to assert himself. Up to this point the Jew has not attempted to disguise his Jewishness.
"(h) The reason why the Jew decides suddenly to become a 'German ' is obvious. He feels that the power of the princes is slowly tottering and therefore tries at an early time to get a platform beneath his feet. Furthermore, his financial domination of the whole economy has advanced so far that without possession of all 'civil' rights he can no longer support the gigantic edifice"
Now things get interesting.
"(i) So from the court Jew there-gradually develops the people's Jew, which means, of course: the Jew remains as before in the entourage of the high lords; in fact,-he tries to push his way even more into their circle; but at the same time another part of his race makes friends with the ' beloved people.
But even more: all at once the Jew also becomes liberal and begins to rave about the necessary progress of mankind.
Slowly he makes himself the spokesman of a new era.
Also, of course, he destroys more and more thoroughly the foundations of any economy that will really benefit the people.
Finally, the Jewish influence on economic affairs grows with terrifying speed through the stock exchange. He becomes the owner, or at least the controller, of the national labor force.
To strengthen his political position he tries to tear down the racial and civil barriers which for a time continue to restrain him at every step. "
Hitler identifies Freemasonry as a vehicle for the Jews, and the press.
"To this end he fights with all the tenacity innate in him for religious tolerance-and in Freemasonry, which has succumbed to him completely, he has an excellent instrument with which to fight for his aims and put them across. The governing circles and the higher strata of the political and economic bourgeoisie are brought into his nets by the strings of Freemasonry, and never need to suspect what is happening
Thus Freemasonry is joined by a second weapon in the service of the Jews: the press. With all his perseverance and dexterity he seizes possession of it.
In this he always represents himself personally as having an infinite thirst for knowledge, praises all progress, mostly, to be sure, the progress that leads to the ruin of others; for he judges all knowledge and all development only according to its possibilities for advancing his nation, and where this is lacking, he is the inexorable mortal enemy of all light, a hater of all true culture."
The ultiimate tool of the Jews. Lookout ! Democracy.
"His ultimate goal in this stage is the victory of ' democracy,' or, as he understands it: the rule of parliamentarianism. It is most compatible with his requirements; for it excludes the personality-and puts in its place the majority characterized by stupidity, incompetence, and last but not least, cowardice."
(to be continued)
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> Ultimately the military failed, but Hitler points out
> that the communists/Jews/SDs were undermining the war
> effort in Germany
Apparently both the Germans and the Austrians thought that the "Jews" were not adequately supporting the war effort in WWI. To prove it they launched studies on the percentage of Jews in the military vs other groups. The studies were quietly burried when it turned out that Jews were over reprented in the military compared to other groups.
> Hitler analyzes the role of Jews in society.
But the analysis below is falwed in fact, logic, and because it fails to address some of the underlying elemetns such as why Europes banksers were Jews at least up until the reformation.
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> Also, of course, he destroys more and more thoroughly
> the foundations of any economy that will really
> benefit the people.
This is one of the greatest fallacies ever. Indeed the economy of Europe would have been a complete disaster without the Jews.
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> Hitler identifies Freemasonry as a vehicle for the
> Jews, and the press.
This is just plain wierd.
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In today's climate of political correctness, it is easy to characterize Hitler's writing on race as strange babbling. Whereas in reality, it is the simplest statement of what is in accordance with abundant and overwhelming evidence. Yesterday, racism was obvious to all, today it is almost illegal.
Considering the entire idea of the Aryan race was a hotchpotch of mysticism and incorrect historical ideas, Mein Kamph is far from the worst offender, for that see Rosenburg!
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Jun 23, 2009 8:16 AM
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I did try to read it in high school. Got terminally board part way through the table of contents.
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Considering the entire idea of the Aryan race was a hotchpotch of mysticism and incorrect historical ideas
Suppose we replace 'Aryan race' with 'European culture'. Then Hitler's arguments seem to be more or less correct to me. The Greeks changed everything, and European culture, and ultimately technology, based on the framework developed by the Greeks, has transformed the world.
> Also, of course, he destroys more and more thoroughly
> the foundations of any economy that will really
> benefit the people.
Pick up a newspaper and read about the de-industrialization of the US. Who is responsible? Who benefited? The 'finanicial sector', i.e. Goldman Sachs, Lehmann, etc. They ain't Irish.
> Hitler identifies Freemasonry as a vehicle for the
> Jews, and the press.
I don't know anything about the Freemasons, but I suspect Hitler is right. Surely he is right about the press, as it is even true in the US today we can verify by checking the ownership of the NYT, Washington Post, etc. Even Walt Disney Co., for crying out loud, and look what they've done to that !!!
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> Suppose we replace 'Aryan race' with 'European
> culture'. Then Hitler's arguments seem to be more or
> less correct to me. The Greeks changed everything,
> and European culture, and ultimately technology,
> based on the framework developed by the Greeks, has
> transformed the world.
Which in turn was based on other Mediterraneon cultures. By the way much the same could be said for the Arabs or the Chinese or the Mongols or ....
> Pick up a newspaper and read about the
> de-industrialization of the US. Who is responsible?
> Who benefited? The 'finanicial sector', i.e.
> . Goldman Sachs, Lehmann, etc. They ain't Irish.
Are you sure? My guess is that there is substantial penetration of the financial sector by the Irish in particular and Celts in general. Probably even greater penetration by those of Germanic heritage.
Here's a clue. In the US names are got a great clue to someones ethnicity.
> > Hitler identifies Freemasonry as a vehicle for
> the
> > Jews, and the press.
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> I don't know anything about the Freemasons,
You should have stopped there. You would have been correct and not gone out on a rather fragile limb.
> but I suspect Hitler is right. Surely he is right about
> the press, as it is even true in the US today we can
> verify by checking the ownership of the NYT,
> Washington Post, etc. Even Walt Disney Co., for
> crying out loud, and look what they've done to that
> !!!
OK what's your verification show?
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It had much the same effect on even the senior Nazis apparently! Cannot say it was a book I finished, but worth a look for curiousity.
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Ch. 11 - Race and Nation - continued
Hitler analyzed the effects of industrialization, and the Jews' role.
"(j) The tremendous economic development leads to a change in the social stratification of the people. The small craftsman slowly dies out, and as a result the worker's possibility of achieving an independent existence becomes rarer and rarer; in consequence the worker becomes visibly proletarianized. There arises the industrial ' factory worker ' whose most essential characteristic is to be sought in the fact that he hardly ever is in a position to found an existence of his own in later life. He is propertyless in the truest sense of the word. His old age is a torment and can scarcely be designated as living."
Industrialization leads to a division in society, which the Jew exploits. While the Jewish financiers are directing the capital, the Jews also gain control of the trade unions to fight the captialists'.
"While the bourgeoisie is not at all concerned about this all-important question, but indifferently lets things slide, the Jew seizes the unlimited opportunity it offers for the future; while on the one hand he organizes capitalistic methods of human exploitation to their ultimate consequence, he approaches the very victims of his spirit and his activity and in a short time becomes the leader of their struggle against himself.
In this the Jew keeps up an outcry against international capital and in truth he means the national economy which must be demolished in order that the international stock exchange can triumph over its dead body.
Here the Jew's procedure is as follows:
He approaches the worker, simulates pity with his fate, or even indignation at his lot of misery and poverty, thus gaining his confidence. He takes pains to study all the various real or imaginary hardships of his life-and to arouse his longing for a change in such an existence. With infinite shrewdness he fans the need for social justice, somehow slumbering in every Aryan man, into hatred against those who have been better favored by fortune, and thus gives the struggle for the elimination of social evils a very definite philosophical stamp. He establishes the Marxist doctrine."
The trade unions played a much more important role in the early 20th century than they do now, and their tactics were more violent.
"And so he inevitably drives every competitor in this sphere from the field in a short time. In keeping with all his inner rapacious brutality, he at once teaches the trade-union movement the most brutal use of violence. If anyone by his intelligence resists the Jewish lures, his defiance and understanding are broken by terror. The success of such an activity is enormous.
Actually the Jew by means of the trade union, which could be a blessing for the nation, shatters the foundations of the national economy."
At the same time, the press is used to attack any opponent of the Jews.
"It is this press, above all, which wages a positively fanatical and slanderous struggle, tearing down everything which can be regarded as a support of national independence, cultural elevation, and the economic independence of the nation.
Above all, it hammers away at the characters of all those who will not bow down to the Jewish presumption to dominate, or whose ability and genius in themselves seem a danger to the Jew.
While from innate cowardice the upper classes turn away from a man whom the Jew attacks with lies and slander, the broad masses from stupidity or simplicity believe everything. The state authorities either cloak themselves in silence or, what usually happens, in order to put an end to the Jewish press campaign, they persecute the unjustly attacked, which, in the eyes of such an official ass, passes as the preservation of state authority and the safeguarding of law and order.
Slowly fear of the Marxist weapon of Jewry descends like a nightmare on the mind and soul of decent people."
When their power is complete, the Jews feel free to proclaim their Jewishness. Hitler gives a concise characterization of Zionism.
"The Jew's domination in the state seems so assured that now not only can he call himself a Jew again, but he ruthlessly admits his ultimate national and political designs. A section of his race openly owns itself to be a foreign people, yet even here they lie. For while the Zionists try to make the rest of the world believe that the national consciousness of the Jew finds its satisfaction in the creation of a Palestinian state, the Jews again slyly dupe the dumb Goyim. It doesn't even enter their heads to build up a Jewish state in Palestine for the purpose of living there; all they want is a central organization for their international world swindle, endowed with its own sovereign rights and removed from the intervention of other states: a haven for convicted scoundrels and a university for budding crooks."
Now the end game, Hitler has the case of Russia before him.
"(e) Now begins the great last revolution. In gaining political power the Jew casts off the few cloaks that he still wears. The democratic people's Jew becomes the blood-Jew and tyrant over peoples. In a few years he tries to exterminate the national intelligentsia and by robbing the peoples of their natural intellectual leadership makes them ripe for the slave's lot of permanent subjugation.
The most frightful example of this kind is offered by Russia, where he killed or starved about thirty million people with positively fanatical savagery, in part amid inhuman tortures, in order to give a gang of Jewish journalists and stock exchange bandits domination over a great people."
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Re: Summer reading suggestion - Mein Kampf
Jun 24, 2009 1:16 PM
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Now the end game, Hitler has the case of Russia before him.
"(e) Now begins the great last revolution. In gaining political power the Jew casts off the few cloaks that he still wears. The democratic people's Jew becomes the blood-Jew and tyrant over peoples. In a few years he tries to exterminate the national intelligentsia and by robbing the peoples of their natural intellectual leadership makes them ripe for the slave's lot of permanent subjugation.
Rather a double standard as Hitler also thought the Russian people (Slavs) were only fit to act in the role of slaves for the Germanic people.
The most frightful example of this kind is offered by Russia, where he killed or starved about thirty million people with positively fanatical savagery, in part amid inhuman tortures, in order to give a gang of Jewish journalists and stock exchange bandits domination over a great people."
Stalin was not a Jew although many of the leading communists in the original revolution were, he had them executed too!
For all Hitler obsessed over Jews and Communists, these thoughts are little better than ill thought out conspiricy theories today, and his idea of how to solve the problem led to the most regretable events in German history.
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Re: Summer reading suggestion - Mein Kampf
Jun 25, 2009 8:38 AM
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I've read it,i found the small part at the begining about Britain to be interesting but the rest was so stupid it annoyed me. I was kind of hoping for an account of his ww1 experiences.
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