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MEIN KAMPF

Book Review by: pj143    

Original Author: Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler one of the most powerful and forcing personality relates
his experiences in a manner that match stroke
for stroke his character.A
true genius as he ,was misplaced in history . When the whole world
,after the era imperialism and racism ,was trying
to move into a new era devoid of these two he stuck to the principle
of race preservation.Hitler was against Marxism ,then prevalent in the
eastern Europe, and Jews.According to him Marxism was all set to
destroy Germany in his days and Jews were pestilence which pulled the
state into decrepitude.Hitler insists throughout that state or
an authority in charge of the state is a means to achieve the end of
race preservation.It is the iron will of nature that allows the strong
to survive and weak to perish and onus is on the survivors or winners
against the struggle to carry on the process of evolution in order to
achieve highest degree of human life and race.In this struggle
individual should sacrifice for the common weal and preserve his race
against all odds.Individual interest should not meddle with the
interest of state , this he calls idealism and if individual interest
dominate that of the state he calls it a self preservation which is a
sin . Every species has instinct of self preservation , it at a higher
level turns into idealism which is the sole reason for the survival of
a species.Jews is a race which does not possess these qualities
and are parasites who do not have a civilization or state of their own
according to Hitler.During his stay in Viena Hitler comes in contact
with the press which is mostly under the control of Jews or Marxist.The
state authority of Austria- Hitlers home state- was full of Jews.Owing
to their inefficiency to look after the affairs of state further decays
the state . He calls Austrian parliament a set of simpletons who know
nothing better than squabbling among themselves and shirking
responsibility.Hitler accuses the Jews press of deliberately misleading
the masses by contorting the facts.The press of the Germany leads
people astray and spoils the spirit of the nation.Here Hitler expresses
his intent of controlling the press or to be simple considers freedom
of press to have adverse affects on the masses who lack the intellect
to discern between farce and fact.The more Hitler studied the
situation around him the more he  was convinced about the dictatorial
role a person of genius should assume in controlling the state authorityHitler
was a person who read world from every perspective .He leads a life of
absolute poverty in Vienna this gave him this opportunity.He talks of
how masses are important for the success of any social movement.In his
words they should be lead in only one direction to produce the most
desired results.Hitler studied the affairs of state as
it is but drew wrong conclusions from it .He detested whole of the
democratic system .In understanding the political and economic
situation of the Germany he reveals a spark of genius.He wanted to
destroy the cause of the problems in trying do so terminated people
whose ideas were wrong.He had no sympathy towards races he considered
inferior to his .He succumbed to his ideas of racial discrimination.He
wanted to replace Marxism with Nazism .When he wanted to replace an
idea by idea and a philosophy by another he used force against all
those who opposed him .He endeavors upon exterminating a complete
race which was an abominable crime.He wanted to remove the race from
the face of the earth which he called a pest.I could not
personally construe his idea of removing a race.He forms an idea and
just does not look at anything which refutes it.This was very true in
his idea about Jews.And regarding Marxism he was more than correct when
he says a philosophy needs another philosophy to be replaced.But he
does not understand or consider the fact that the new philosophy should
be a better one and   broadly acceptableone.He never considers world
peace an important fact in taking a decision which makes or breaks it
.He portrays pacifists or peace mongers as cowards.Peace was an
unnecessary element in Hitlers pursuit.So was his philosophy devoid of
peace.And never it could be a suitable substitute.In trying to
expurgate other ideas and ideals Nazism was demolished to the roots.He
wanted national solidarity but he also wanted a nation which had no
other people except Germans.Hitler was more of a monarch.He led Germany
headlong into though he had achieved what was necessary for the Germany
he dreamed of.He conquered Austria , Hungary and Czech when he plunged Germany into a war and he conquered Poland when he declared war on the
world . He made a blunder plunging a nation which he pulled out of
economic and political crisis into the darkness of the dreaded war.He
created a great state and destroyed it within a span of 20 years reason
being preservation and expansion of race which was "THE IRON WILL OF
NATURE " as he claimed.
Published: January 05, 2008
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