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Zea_mays

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Re: National Socialists were socialists
« on: January 16, 2022, 10:57:54 pm »
For the speeches, here is the book I am taking the quotes from. It does not seem to specify the translator, and it does not include all of Hitler's speeches (although it is probably most of them). I am posting very large excerpts from the speeches, because I think it is useful for discussion and understanding to see the context.
https://archive.org/details/AdolfHitlerCollectionOfSpeeches19221945/mode/2up


To give a broad summary, in the earliest dated speeches included in the book, Hitler basically says his goal is to provide an ideology which combines statism (represented by the ideal found in Nationalism) and Socialism's ideal of selflessly serving the welfare of society as a whole. This is consistent in later speeches during the war as well. Instead of dividing and pitting the "blue collar workers" and "white collar workers" against each other, as Communists wanted to, Hitler wanted to unite all laborers, transcend the existing False Left-Right political false dichotomy, and instead base the struggle on innate biological qualities to actually achieve a radically new society. Instead of the disorganized "international" and theoretically democratic struggle of Communism, Hitler embraced the unifying power of the nation and the centralized power of the state to achieve Socialism (which even Stalin was forced to do with his absolute rule and "Socialism in one country" policy contradicting the Communist world revolution idea.)