MAN OF THE PRINZIP. PART II.

An important note. Although the difference between Hitler’s Mein Kampf One and Mein Kampf Two gets a comprehensive treatment in my History section, a short reminder is certainly advisable. The reader must by no means confuse Mein Kampf One and Mein Kampf Two with the 1^st and 2^nd volumes of Hitler’s infamous book. In my treatment, Mein Kampf One is the first edition of Mein Kampf (1925), consisting of a single volume. The later second edition (1926) consisting of volume 1 and the newly written volume 2 presents a radically revised version of the original book. For this reason I call both volume 1 and volume 2 of the second edition “Mein Kampf Two.”

The following are a few instructive details on the sorely confused political beliefs of Germany’s Man of the Prinzip, which obviously belong to his “Mein Kampf Two” period, when his motivated anti-Soviet and pro-Western handlers put him on a collision course with the USSR... I am condensing here a modern Western source in Wikipedia, which ought not to be completely trusted, not because it is Wikipedia, but because all Western sources (and the Russians assist them by keeping silent on this crucial matter) do not seem, or do not wish to understand the key difference between Mein Kampf One and Mein Kampf Two amply discussed in the History section.

In a nutshell, Hitler originally regarded international capitalism as the greatest enemy of German national-socialism. On the other hand, he believed that Russian socialism could be an ally of German socialism, but only on the condition of its purification from the “communists.” The question of Lebensraum, a glaring contradiction, was not an issue in Mein Kampf One, but became a compelling issue in Mein Kampf Two.

In Hitler’s mind, Communism is the primary enemy of Germany. (Western capitalism had been the actual enemy in Mein Kampf One, but this fact is habitually disregarded by Western historians. What really unites MKI and MKII, what rides strong through them despite their otherwise diametrical opposition, is Hitler’s morbid anti-Semitism. In both cases, financial capitalism in the first, and “Marxist communism” in the second, are attributed to Jewish influence. Try to figure that one out!) The following is quoted from Mein Kampf Two:

“…In the years 1913 and 1914, I expressed my opinion for the first time in various circles, some of which have now become members of the National Socialist Movement, that the problem of how the future of the German nation can be secured is the problem of how Marxism can be exterminated… In this manner, the struggle against the present State had been placed on a higher plane than that of petty revenge and small conspiracies. It was elevated to the level of a spiritual struggle, on behalf of a Weltanschauung, for the destruction of Marxism in all its shapes and forms…” (Clearly, to Hitler, Western financial capitalism is the most distinctive “shape and form” of Marxism. Let’s keep that in mind before we carelessly equate Hitler’s anti-Marxism with anti-Sovietism. In fact, the only issue putting Hitler on a collision course with Russia is Lebensraum!)

“In view of the complete subordination of the present State to Marxism, the National Socialist Movement feels all the more bound not only to prepare the way for the triumph of its idea by appealing to the reason and understanding of the public, but also to take upon itself the responsibility of organizing its own defense against the terror of the International, which is intoxicated with its own victory.”

According to Hitler, Marxism is a Jewish strategy to subjugate Germany and the World:

“For this purpose French armies would first have to invade and overcome the territory of the German Reich until a state of international chaos would set in, and then the country would have to succumb to Bolshevik storm troops in the service of Jewish international finance. (Communism in the service of capitalism?! Isn’t that a little bit confusing?. But we can clearly see from this weird sentence where MKI meets MKII.) Hence it is that at the present time the Jew is the great agitator for the complete destruction of Germany. Whenever we read of attacks against Germany that take place in any part of the world, the Jew is always the instigator. In peacetime, as well as during the War, the Jewish-Marxist stock-exchange Press had systematically stirred up hatred against Germany, until one State after another abandoned its neutrality and placed itself at the service of the world coalition, even against the real interests of its own people. The Jewish way of reasoning thus becomes perfectly clear. The Bolshevization of Germany, that is to say the extermination of patriotic and national German intellectuals, thus making it possible to force German Labor to bear the yoke of the international Jewish finance-- that is only the overture to the movement for expanding Jewish power on a wider scale and finally subjugating the world to its rule.” (Observe how Hitler makes indistinguishable “communism” and financial capitalism. This is obviously not exactly the raving of a lunatic, since most of the German nation would eventually embrace this kind of “Weltanschauung.” Take notice, however, that Hitler’s rhetoric here, a strong echo of Mein Kampf One, is decidedly more anti-capitalist than anti-Soviet, for what it’s worth.)

To be continued…