[quote]Schwarzfahrer wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
Actually, if you see Hitler as someone who took the ideas of Fichte, Hegel (and Marx), Kant, and Nietzsche (in a bad mood) seriously…
What do you think socialism, communism, welfare-statism were invented for? To help the masses? LMAO!!
Actually, it is not that easy, dear Headhunter.
Hitler took more than just some philosopher’s words and turned them skillfully around.
His whole era was full of exotic and bizarre ideas.
Much of his philosophy, for example, was certainly based on Wagner and his fiction. And not to forget Madame Blavatsky and her creepy Ideology, which by the way , was symptomatic for his generations’s fascination of occult mysteries.
Hitler didn’t really carefully invent his Tolkien like pagan-fantasy-fiction ideology. Theories like that do only more in making Hitler some evil genius, who played around with people’s minds.
You may not like Communism. Still most intellectuals in the first half of 20th Century felt strong sympathy for it. Nobody would’ve thought it turned out to be such crap. Engels, Marx and the others didn’t know. I plead not guilty for them. [/quote]
Sure, Hitler was influenced by the occult. He also got a lot of money from old man Ford. The minister of Interior (I think) of Bavaria was bitching about a ‘rich, american capitalist’ funding the Nazis. Read ‘Henry Ford and the Jews’ (google it).
I still think my premise is sound: Hitler recognized that he could use statism/socialism to control the masses. He says in the book that an ‘elite’ is ‘building itself up’ to do just that. This elite will be ‘beyond good and evil’.
This is the danger of ANY powerful government; someone will figure out how to abuse it. This is one reason why I oppose Socialism, Communism, and any sort of welfare-state. Should we give a government managerial control over ourselves and/or our economy? It’s a death wish.
Also, Engels, Marx, and co. should have anticipated what someone with evil intent might do with their system. They had the capacity to know. GUILTY.