'Mein Kampf' - Hitler's book returns to German bookshelves

[Meryuma]

Sounds like the annotations have a definite critical/anti-fascist slant that could actually be very relevant and informative in the current fucked-up political climate. Anyways they straight-up sell Mein Kampf in the history section of the Barnes & Noble where I live (Seattle) and the far-right here is miniscule.

In my opinion, Germany has already completed its penance for the horrors committed by the Nazi regime, and so this is fine.

It's not a matter of "penance", because that's taking it as a foregone conclusion that fascism could never happen again. That's a really dangerous assumption to make. Nazis unfortunately still exist, they just go by euphemisms in Germany.

[Mefpan]

Sounds like the annotations have a definite critical/anti-fascist slant that could actually be very relevant and informative in the current fucked-up political climate. Anyways they straight-up sell Mein Kampf in the history section of the Barnes & Noble where I live (Seattle) and the far-right here is miniscule.

In my opinion, Germany has already completed its penance for the horrors committed by the Nazi regime, and so this is fine.

It's not a matter of "penance", because that's taking it as a foregone conclusion that fascism could never happen again. That's a really dangerous assumption to make. Nazis unfortunately still exist, they just go by euphemisms in Germany.

There are no Nazis here in Germany. We only have "concerned citizens". Who are afraid of race-mixing, foreign cultures, the West, to lesser extents dislike capitalism and socialism, have a love for the contemporary Russian way of internal and foreign politics and- wait, fuck.

[Internationalist Bastard]

So? I may disagree with Nazi ideals, but if spmeone really wants to read it, they should be allowed

[Quokkastan]

So? I may disagree with Nazi ideals, but if spmeone really wants to read it, they should be allowed

I actually recommend reading it.

Not that it's a good read, mind you, but familiarizing yourself with Hitler's views is advantageous when others try to tell you "what Hitler thought."

[Vassenor]

So? I may disagree with Nazi ideals, but if spmeone really wants to read it, they should be allowed

I actually recommend reading it.

Not that it's a good read, mind you, but familiarizing yourself with Hitler's views is advantageous when others try to tell you "what Hitler thought."

I would but I'm afraid of ending up on some sort of watchlist.

[The Hobbesian Metaphysician]

I actually recommend reading it.

Not that it's a good read, mind you, but familiarizing yourself with Hitler's views is advantageous when others try to tell you "what Hitler thought."

I would but I'm afraid of ending up on some sort of watchlist.

Got to love the governments of some countries.

[Vassenor]

I would but I'm afraid of ending up on some sort of watchlist.

Got to love the governments of some countries.

Considering this government is trying to force through surveillance bills that every expert is saying will not work and considers "buys a mobile phone without telling parents" or "questioned government policy" as signs of possible radicalisation, I would not be surprised.

[The Great state of Atlantis]

I've tried to read Mein Kampf once (an original, 1939 edition) and I found it to be long, winding, ranting and ultimately boring and not to the point. Even at times when he does get to the point i.e. the expansion of Lebensraum in the East, expelling of the Jews etc., I couldn't help but see it as utterly misguided. Even during Hitler's era, people found it boring. It was widespread and in many cases even mandatory, but that doesn't mean that it was well read. As for its redistribution: I don't mind. Better to redistribute it than adhere to some kind of well intended, yet flawed form of censorship. Those who intend to learn from history inclusing its mistakes, won't become Nazis merely because of his book and those who have such tendencies probably would have developed them anyway even without it. By comparison, one can read the Unabomber's manifesto or 2083, a declaration of European independence. (Breivik's manifesto) without any form of censorship or annotation at all. Personally, I think the latter's manifesto is not only more relevant and also more dangerous than Hitler's obsolete rant and his misguided, distorted views. 2083 is also distorted, but it addresses the modern problem of Muslim immigrants and their offspring and as such, its very nature is infinitely more divisive in our modern world than Hitler's prose.

[USS Monitor]

Sounds like the annotations have a definite critical/anti-fascist slant that could actually be very relevant and informative in the current fucked-up political climate. Anyways they straight-up sell Mein Kampf in the history section of the Barnes & Noble where I live (Seattle) and the far-right here is miniscule.

Almost like the book isn't magic and people won't turn Nazi just from being in the same store with a copy of it...

[Lancaster of Wessex]

I welcome the (re-)publishing of this book. I've never read it save for excerpts back in university, but people need to read for themselves and see what is written, in all its apparently crappily-written horror.

[Nickel Empire]

I'm glad that the book is being published again.

I would like to read it some time in the future.

[Prussia-Steinbach]

So? I may disagree with Nazi ideals, but if spmeone really wants to read it, they should be allowed

I actually recommend reading it.

Not that it's a good read, mind you, but familiarizing yourself with Hitler's views is advantageous when others try to tell you "what Hitler thought."

Exactly.

If you want to have a well-rounded and educated view on politics, you can't just stay within your own ideological box. Books like the Doctrine of Fascism, Mein Kampf, the Communist Manifesto, Man Economy and State, and What is Property (as a start), should all be required reading for anyone who wants to claim good and full knowledge of political theory.

There is no good excuse for banning books. I find censorship of literature to be horrific.

[Lancaster of Wessex]

I'm glad that the book is being published again.

I would like to read it some time in the future.

Unless you live in Germany (and perhaps Austria?) you could have read it even before now, and is found readily online. Even in the places where it had been banned I don't think there were any laws against reading it.

[Prussia-Steinbach]

I'm glad that the book is being published again.

I would like to read it some time in the future.

Be warned, it's not an easy or enjoyable read. Very long. Not concise or clear in any way.

Doctrine of Fascism was much better. Short, makes its point.

[Prussia-Steinbach]

I'm glad that the book is being published again.

I would like to read it some time in the future.

Unless you live in Germany (and perhaps Austria?) you could have read it even before now, and is found readily online. Even in the places where it had been banned I don't think there were any laws against reading it.

Oh, yeah. PDFs are only a Google search away and I know it's in most every Barnes and Noble here in America.

[Korhal IVV]

I approve. Only religious literature should be banned.

Only hentai should be banned

[Eol Sha]

I approve. Only religious literature should be banned.

Only hentai should be banned

Not that I believe that any literary or artistic work should ever be banned, but I'd sooner ban religious works than pornography. For personal and ideological reasons.

[Consortium of the Caigont]

Sounds like the annotations have a definite critical/anti-fascist slant that could actually be very relevant and informative in the current fucked-up political climate. Anyways they straight-up sell Mein Kampf in the history section of the Barnes & Noble where I live (Seattle) and the far-right here is miniscule.



It's not a matter of "penance", because that's taking it as a foregone conclusion that fascism could never happen again. That's a really dangerous assumption to make. Nazis unfortunately still exist, they just go by euphemisms in Germany.

There are no Nazis here in Germany. We only have "concerned citizens". Who are afraid of race-mixing, foreign cultures, the West, to lesser extents dislike capitalism and socialism, have a love for the contemporary Russian way of internal and foreign politics and- wait, fuck.

Free Democratic Party of Dictatorship for the GEWINN!

I'm glad that the book is being published again.

I would like to read it some time in the future.

Be warned, it's not an easy or enjoyable read. Very long. Not concise or clear in any way.

Doctrine of Fascism was much better. Short, makes its point.

You read it? Fuckin' trooper, mate!
No, seriously...I find that admirable. Apparently it's so boring that nobody wanted to read it when Hitler sent one to every German or something of that sort as mandatory reading...unless that's an urban legend.

[Atomic Utopia]

I'm glad that the book is being published again.

I would like to read it some time in the future.

Be warned, it's not an easy or enjoyable read. Very long. Not concise or clear in any way.

Doctrine of Fascism was much better. Short, makes its point.

Heck, even the Communist Manifesto was better than Mein Kampf. At least it was moderately orginized. The only decent part of Mein Kampf was the section on propaganda, and I heard that he had plagiarized that from a book he had. If anything will prevent you from supporting antiseminisim it is the terrible quality of that horrible book.

[TotallyNotEvilLand]

I'm sure it'll be a popular sell with all the idiotic Hitler worshippers that seem to be breeding like flies on a carcass nowadays.

[The Hobbesian Metaphysician]

I approve. Only religious literature should be banned.

Yes because encouraging the bans over things in which people have died to defend is such a grand fucking idea right?

What utter nonsense, and it is any wonder in why liberal arts studies is so restrictive over who the hell they invite to campus.

[Korhal IVV]

Only hentai should be banned

Not that I believe that any literary or artistic work should ever be banned, but I'd sooner ban religious works than pornography. For personal and ideological reasons.

No wonder Hezbollah, ISIS, and Al-qaeda calls America "The Great Satan"

[The Hobbesian Metaphysician]

Not that I believe that any literary or artistic work should ever be banned, but I'd sooner ban religious works than pornography. For personal and ideological reasons.

Pervert.

Given the rates of certain practices that humans commit when it comes to sex. Pornography is the least if sometimes most odd of everyone's worries.

[Eol Sha]

Not that I believe that any literary or artistic work should ever be banned, but I'd sooner ban religious works than pornography. For personal and ideological reasons.

No wonder Hezbollah, ISIS, and Al-qaeda calls America "The Great Satan"

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Interestingly enough, their sickening sex slavery and ancient moral codes are more than enough for me to not be particularly concerned about what they call the United States.

[The Hobbesian Metaphysician]

No wonder Hezbollah, ISIS, and Al-qaeda calls America "The Great Satan"

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Interestingly enough, their sickening sex slavery and ancient moral codes are more than enough for me to not be particularly concerned about what they call the United States.

To be fair I don't recall any sex slavery when it comes to Hezbollah. They do admit to prostitution, but again that isn't necessarily sex slavery unlike Daesh which pretty says "yes we breed women till they die".