If Social Democracy is opposed by a doctrine of greater truth, but equal brutality of methods, the latter will conquer, though this may require the bitterest struggle.
Before two years had passed, the theory as well as the technical methods of Social Democracy were clear to me.
I understood the infamous spiritual terror which this movement exerts, particularly on the bourgeoisie, which is neither morally nor mentally equal to such attacks; at a given sign it unleashes a veritable barrage of lies and slanders against what-ever adversary seems most dangerous, until the nerves of the attacked person break down and, just to have peace again, they sacrifice the hated individual.
However, the fools obtain no peace.
The game begins again and is repeated over and over until fear of the mad dog results in suggestive paralysis.
Since the Social Democrats best know the value of force from their own experience, they most violently attack those in whose nature they detect any of the substance which is so rare. Conversely, they praise every weakling on the opposing side, sometimes cautiously, sometimes loudly, depending on the real or supposed quality of his intelligence.
They fear an impotent, spineless genius less than a forceful nature of moderate intelligence.
I was told Mein Kampf was bad. This was a lie
Whomever says that Mein Kampf is a bad book is either a shill or an alt-right contrarian.
The criticisms I have heard are that "it's boring" (that's obviously a jewish criticism) "it makes no sense" (that's what a marxist would say because they are employing the marxist techniques) "it's meaningless rants of a crazy man" (lol)
"But with the greatest enthusiasm they commend weaklings in both mind and force.
They know how to create the illusion that this is the only way of preserving the peace, and at the same time, stealthily but steadily, they conquer one position after another, sometimes by silent blackmail, sometimes by actual theft, at moments when the general attention is directed toward other matters, and either does not want to be disturbed or considers the matter too small to raise a stir about, thus again irritating the vicious antagonist.
This is a tactic based on precise calculation of all human weaknesses, and its result will lead to success with almost mathematical certainty unless the opposing side learns to combat poison gas with poison gas.
It is our duty to inform all weaklings that this is a question of to be or not to be.
I achieved an equal understanding of the importance of physical terror toward the individual and the masses.
Here, too, the psychological effect can be calculated with precision.
Terror at the place of employment, in the factory, in the meeting hall, and on the occasion of mass demonstrations will always be successful unless opposed by equal terror.
In this case, to be sure, the party will cry bloody murder; though it has long despised all state authority, it will set up a howling cry for that same authority and in most cases will actually attain its goal amid the general confusion: it will find some idiot of a higher official who, in the imbecilic hope of propitiating the feared adversary for later eventualities, will help this world plague to break its opponent."
A. Which translation is this?
And
B. "But with the greatest enthusiasm they commend weaklings in both mind and force"
This is EXACTLY what they do to this day. That's what they're doing right now! And this could be a Trump quote if I didn't know any better hahahaha
I too have heard from numerous people on Sup Forums that 'Mein Kampf isn't even worth reading' which was strange for me to hear, since it's pretty tough for me to find something that I can't derive any true knowledge from, especially considering this is Sup Forums we are talking about. Why not just tell people to read it and decide for themselves?
I'm thinking its German propaganda, because I have heard that from a lot of German people. I bet in their country this meme that the book is bad is passed around all the time, to make the reader frame the book in a certain light as they are reading it.
Yep. It is definitely worth reading.
The translation is Ralph Manheim. I know I know, "it has a foreward from the ADL." Whatever. It doesn't matter. What matters is that the translation is good. And this one IS good. Sure, there are negative footnotes, but would you rather have a true-to-form translation with a bunch of negative footnotes, or for the translation to have the negativity built in?
'The art of reading as of learning is this; to retain the essential, to forget the non-essential'
this is a great quote because it goes along with my method of learning. There is knowledge, and then there is understanding. Many people have seemingly endless knowledge of useless facts, but lack even the shallowest understanding. Many people have the deepest understanding, and require no knowledge to do so. (see: rednecks)
'Only when an epoch ceases to be haunted by the shadow of its own consciousness of guilt will it achieve the inner calm and outward strength brutally and ruthlessly to prune off the wild shoots and tear out the weeds'
HOW MUCH MORE ACCURATE TO THE CURRENT YEAR COULD YOU POSSIBLY BE
"Hitler is one of the greatest men, the old trust him, the young idolize him. It is the worship of a national hero who has served his country.... Within a few years, Adolf Hitler will emerge from the hatred which surrounds him as one of the most significant figures that ever lived"
-President Mush for Brains
It's terrifying how prophetic mein kampf is. 1984 is a meme compared to it
I guess nobody cares about the Hitler quotes anymore.
For being Naziboos, Sup Forums is astonishingly lacking in knowledge when it comes to Mein Kampf.
Anyway, it's a great book, I hope y'all read it sometime. It is not any of the bad things that people say it is.
I found it at a used book store, I looked up the translation, and Stormfront said that it was a bretty good translation except for the footnotes and forward, which I can deal with.
But yea, if you want a perfect diagnoses of Marxism that still rings true to this day, and you want an incite into the only man who successfully stopped it in a country for any real amount of time, please, read it, and then you can come back to me and thank me for opening your eyes and contradicting what all the shills and contrarians (half of whom I would bet haven't even read the book) would say.
To be fair, I've only read the first volume
why do you think it is that Sup Forums disparages it?
is it because most of them haven't read it, but they want to sound like they have an opinion?
after having read it.. I really think that there is a reason for people telling Sup Forums not to read it. I mean, it is far too accurate for people to say it's a bad book. The only reason I can think of is that when Marxists read it, they kind of start getting a trickle of sweat down their ass cracks, I don't know.
It has a ton of really inciteful quotes that have nothing to do with politics too.
Why is it that people tell Sup Forums not to read it? I mean, the worst form of criticism I have heard is that "it's boring," which, to me, sounds like THE MOST Jewish possible criticism.
I mean. "read Plato's Republic" 'No! don't do that goyim, it's boring!'
How fucking stupid do you have to be to derive from this great book 'it's boring'? Is this a solely Marxist critizism? Do you think that contrarians (especially Germans) realize that they are propagating a marxo-jewish meme when they talk crap about the book, having not read it, because they think they already know what it will be about, which they think is just "blind ranting about jews??"
I'm surprised that b&n even sells it. You can't find the protocols or Kevin macdonald books at any mainstream bookseller
The main reason people tell you not to read Mein Kampf is because "muh Hitler" "Muh six gorillion" and "it'll turn you in to a nazi".
Some of it takes time to understand, mostly because it's a translation. But there is some truth in it, as with everything.
Nah, I didn't get it from barnes and noble. I got it from a used book store.
I was surprised that the used book store had it. Too be honest, I was in the heart of the feminist jew's lair: I mean, literally most girls that work at used book stores are green or blue haired feminist jews
So it was pretty funny when I plopped Mein Kampf onto the counter, the only copy I had ever seen, along with Machiavelli's 'The Prince', 'The Way of Life' by Lao Tzu, and 'Man and His Symbols' by Carl Jung. Got em all for about $27 dollars. Would have been wayyyyyy cheaper, except for some reason, Mein Kampf was more expensive than most books there; it was 11 bucks.
yea it's a little wordy, as people say it's 'boring' but whatever. Maybe this is also because I jsut got done reading 'The Art of the Deal,' basically my method is to read a super wordy, long book (before Art of the Deal I read Being and Time (Heidegger) which was something like 600 pages and probably the hardest book i've ever read in terms of grammar and rhetoric) But I think that the criticisms are purely from a high-time preference, no patients standpoint.
THE SIX GAZILLIONS
Nice pic. Funny how the "Jesse Owens btfo hitler" meme is still espoused even though Germany won the most medals
I was surprised they would make a movie about him, considering his quotes about how Hitler treated him better than Eisenhower? is that who it was?
But anyway, such is the scourge of the modern day. Everyone has limitless information at their fingertips, and contrary to my initial preconception that this would make everybody more knowledgeable, instead we have this phenomenon:
>"If that were true, we would already know about it."
(they assume that any knowledge that is contrary to their narrative would have been already brought up, and then struck down by the power of their narrative, because of the seemingly available information. As a result, all people are even more ignorant than they were before, because they are able to completely Confirmation Bias themselves into oblivion)
>"Jesse Owens btfo hitler"
I don't know why people parrot that. Jesse Owens said he was treat with more dignity in Germany than he was in the US.
I hope every copy of Mein Kampf will be eventually destroyed.
This book has never done any good to humanity.
All it ever did was to fuel latent nazis into becoming more racist and hating towards jewish people.
wow, that's true. That is pretty much the exact reason that people dislike the book and say don't read it, isn't it!
We also should, while we are at it, destroy the Bible, because of the latent anti semintism within it.
Anyway, not gonna happen, I am in the business of saving PDFs and printing them into books already, so i think that you are too late with that.
>he fell for the Nazi meme
>I'm surprised that b&n even sells it.
Holy fuck
Slightly tempted, around here you're sure to be listed on the Security Services' list of interesting people for simply borrowing it from the library
>I'm thinking its German propaganda, because I have heard that from a lot of German people.
this is probably true
bashing anything nazi related is the ultimate form of german virtue signaling. it's ingrained in germans from childhood, and reinforced throughout adolescence.
none of the people doing this have actually read it. at most they have been presented with distorted quotes ripped out of context.
Fucking hell OP, thanks to you I now have a women in Nazi uniform fetish
>if you want a perfect diagnoses of Marxism that still rings true to this day
mises.org
read this if you want a real diagnose of Marxism, not another socialist drivel like MK
He didn't fall for the Nazi meme. Why4 has Sup Forums become so anti-intellectual lately? They literally have problems with reading books now.
Yea that's marxism from an oven-middle class perspective. Not from a worker's, on the ground perspective, like Mein Kampf gives.
Plus, protip:
>socialism has it's benefits when applied to an ethno-nationalist country, because complete free trade puts power above ethics (the ethics of homogenous race)
who doesn't?
yea, that's what I noticed as well. Even most of the people in this thread are 'experts' on Mein Kampf, and I guarantee you none of them read it.
Got a DDL to Ralph Manheim's translation then? epub, lit, pdf, txt, doesn't matter, do you have a link?
Interrested too. I mean, I could buy it now it's finally reprinted but I dont trust the translation. My parents have an old copy, somewhere, but they're in the other side of the country.
Also, I'm actually a librarian, not a girl, no dyed hair, not leftist. I'm an endangered specie
I don't think this is the full book, but
sjsu.edu
This is the beginning chapters, so you can decide for yourself if it's worth buying.
Thanks.
I'm not scared of the lenght or grammar or whatever, being an avid reader since I'm able to. Plus I think this is an important book so I'll be buying it anyway