Originally published at: Mark Robinson: Mein Kampf a "good read" and "a real eye opener"
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I agree with Mark Robinson.
I read Mein Kampf in my edgelord teens – I especially found it eyeopening that the translator saw fit to note they were not a bad translator, they were just accurately relaying Hitler’s words, which often were not particuarly uh… literary, grammatical, cohesive… what’s the word I’m looking for? Well as they say: why not both?
I guess the main point we differ on is if he had good ideas?
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Oh find us one republican who is as much (let alone ‘more so’) offended by the nazi love as the porn kinks. Most of them probably wouldn’t even manage a wince at the admiration of mein kampf -sigh-
(tis even earlier on the west coast - yet at least the coffee is in abundance [eye rub emoji])
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Daily Show said the Hitler love cancels out the trans porn in the eyes of the Rebubs so no biggie
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This is probably what he means:
‘Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.’
Empty words without any substance.
I feel like this guy is being used as lighting rod for certain deranged president candidate.
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I know there’s a lot of ridiculous, edgelord shit-talking on the internet, and I presume the chat areas of porn sites are orders of magnitude more so (because they’re places of pure - and more extreme - fantasies), but still… there seems to be more than enough evidence in this case to conclude that Robinson does actually more or less mean this shit.
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OWN it, GOP.
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When you come to the idea of exterminating entire multiple ethnic groups, it’s best to err on the side or caution, assume the dude is serious, and obliterate his entire party, at the polling booth.
The worst adverse consequences to them are they need to find new jobs.
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Ugh, I wish these maga folks would get into therapy rather than politics.
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I set out to read Mein Kampf a couple years ago, as I was curious to see what Hitler said in it. I was only able to make it through a couple chapters, as I found it the least eyeopening drivel I’ve read in a long time. It wasn’t that I disagreed with Hilter’s conclusions, which I did, but rather that his arguments were such poorly supported rambling nonsense. I honestly just got exceedingly bored, as none of it was compelling or interesting in the least.
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An older friend of mine told me that when he was in high school in the ‘70’s he started reading Mein Kampf in the lunchroom to shock people. By the time he told me this he admitted it was a stupid, juvenile thing to do and added “My being a juvenile is no excuse.”
Two things convinced him to put it down. The first was that it was so unbelievably boring and pointless.
The second thing is it made him uncomfortable that no one criticized or even questioned him about reading it.
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Who knew that Vance and Robinson could have anything in common.
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So that’s why TFG likes it so much. He could have written it himself. /s
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Mein Kampf was, after Hitler came to power, described as a book that everyone owned and nobody read. It’s infamous for being really badly written.
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I’ve never been tempted but, because of this thread, I looked it up on Wikipedia and found it was 700 pages.
Nope.
I mean I haven’t read Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. Why would I waste whatever days are left me by reading the diarrhoea of a racist mass murderer? If I want to see “How fascists think”, and I don’t, I can just walk up to one and ask them. Not that I would, as I have a hand problem that would make punching a Nazi in the face painful for me.
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My senior year in HS, many, many years ago, I took an Honors English class (we didn’t have AP, but this was equivalent) and one of the first books we read was Uncle Tom’s Cabin. This was a hugely important book at a critical point in our nation’s history and had an essential message condemning slavery. It was probably one of the most important popular American novels in history due to its impact on the abolitionist movement. It is also terribly written; absolute garbage by modern standards and, to a certain extent, by standards at the time. Think of pulp harlequin romance novels you see in the bookstore-level quality. We read many other books that semester (1 per week, with an essay on Friday) that were varying levels of how to write the Great American Novel (Norris, Fitzgerald, McMurty), but all lacked the importance of that book.
Comparing and contrasting the context and importance of a novel with its quality was ultimately one of the main goals of that class (thank you Mr. VanGoey).
We don’t need to read things like Mein Kampf because we agree or disagree with their points. Nor do we need to ignore them because they are poorly written drivel. We do, however, need to acknowledge their importance in society and recognize that they are what was important in the past, and may be important in the future. Know thy enemy.
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Good book if you’re a disgruntled World War 1 veteran on the losing end of the Treaty of Versailles. Lots of complaining, rambling, and whinging.
Google says “81% liked this book” … I seriously doubt even half of those people read the whole thing. I certainly couldn’t be bothered to finish it.
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I don’t think a detailed knowledge of this book is likely to hugely illuminate our understanding of the fascist movement now.
If you are to read something from that time which might do so, perhaps some Walter Benjamin might be better? He was a lot more perceptive than Hitler appears to have been.
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You could have ended that sentence right there. I’m not in favor of censorship, but there’s no value to be gained for most people in reading that book. Historians and maybe German literature scholars, sure. For the rest of us? No. And it certainly shouldn’t be read without also reading some objective history of WWII and the events leading up to it, so the reader understands that Hitler was full of shit.
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