The thing that you need to understand about Hitler is that he's the Stalin of National Socialism.
Lenin, Trotsky, those were the legitimately dangerous communists. Stalin though, wasn't dangerous due to his ideas, he was dangerous because he commanded loyalty, engaged in demagoguery, and was brutal to those who opposed him.
Which brings us to Mein Kampff.
I recommend everyone read Mein Kampff because it puts a real perspective on the entire affair of Nazi Germany and also leads one to discover Gustav Le Bon (probably one of the greatest thinkers you've ever read.)
If I were to say one thing about Hitler, it's that the man could not write and the book is so bitter that one might think it to have been written by some indoctrinated Anti-Fa dumbass.
An Encounter with a Viennese Jew, as a chapter is particularly damning when given a modern context. Imagine watching a video where a millennial explains how he moved to Toronto to live on government benefits and his single mother's savings, only to get reject by OCAD twice, then return home in shame and blame the entire thing on being disgusted by some minority with whom he had a few conversations.
Hitler was an Austro-Hungarian who lived in a border region and Austro-Hungary was a dying empire made up of tons of disparate people, formed into a turbulent empire. The entire Ubermenschen-Untermenschen thing has to do with the fractitious Balkan Kingdoms.
All the "aryan race" bullshit was simply an attempt to pull an empire of disparate people together under some element of commonality with a common enemy.
You can't research this shit on wikipedia. It's a terrible source for this information and it's been polluted by idealogues.
The thing that you need to understand about China in 1948 is that it was made up of multiple regions who neither saw each other as being racially the same, nor did they speak the same language, and nor did they see themselves as being the same people. Han-Chinese as an ethnicity is a communist invention. It isn't about being of an ethnicity or race, it's about swearing that you are a part of an ethnicity or race.
As for weather true National Socialism has every actually been tried, I'd argue that it has and that it's been successful in a few places.
Notably, Canada. When the government was promoting Canadians heavily as a people they were exceptionally successful at integrating people and giving them a common culture and the strong federalism that is required in such a massive country made us uncommonly suited for the system.
It was only once we started doing the "diversity is our strength" bullshit that we crossed the line into international socialism and that system certainly does not work.
The thing that you need to understand about Hitler is that he's the Stalin of National Socialism.
Lenin, Trotsky, those were the legitimately dangerous communists. Stalin though, wasn't dangerous due to his ideas, he was dangerous because he commanded loyalty, engaged in demagoguery, and was brutal to those who opposed him.
Which brings us to Mein Kampff.
I recommend everyone read Mein Kampff because it puts a real perspective on the entire affair of Nazi Germany and also leads one to discover Gustav Le Bon (probably one of the greatest thinkers you've ever read.)
If I were to say one thing about Hitler, it's that the man could not write and the book is so bitter that one might think it to have been written by some indoctrinated Anti-Fa dumbass.
An Encounter with a Viennese Jew, as a chapter is particularly damning when given a modern context. Imagine watching a video where a millennial explains how he moved to Toronto to live on government benefits and his single mother's savings, only to get reject by OCAD twice, then return home in shame and blame the entire thing on being disgusted by some minority with whom he had a few conversations.
Hitler was an Austro-Hungarian who lived in a border region and Austro-Hungary was a dying empire made up of tons of disparate people, formed into a turbulent empire. The entire Ubermenschen-Untermenschen thing has to do with the fractitious Balkan Kingdoms.
All the "aryan race" bullshit was simply an attempt to pull an empire of disparate people together under some element of commonality with a common enemy.
You can't research this shit on wikipedia. It's a terrible source for this information and it's been polluted by idealogues.
The thing that you need to understand about China in 1948 is that it was made up of multiple regions who neither saw each other as being racially the same, nor did they speak the same language, and nor did they see themselves as being the same people. Han-Chinese as an ethnicity is a communist invention. It isn't about being of an ethnicity or race, it's about swearing that you are a part of an ethnicity or race.
As for weather true National Socialism has every actually been tried, I'd argue that it has and that it's been successful in a few places.
Notably, Canada. When the government was promoting Canadians heavily as a people they were exceptionally successful at integrating people and giving them a common culture and the strong federalism that is required in such a massive country made us uncommonly suited for the system.
It was only once we started doing the "diversity is our strength" bullshit that we crossed the line into international socialism and that system certainly does not work.