Mentions of Marxism in Hitlers Mein Kampf

There are 233 mentions of Marxism (or Marxists, Marx) in Hitlers book My Struggle,
condemning the ideology strongly. Hitler wrote that it was the NSDAPs foremost duty to
fight Marxism. He wrote that the name of the NSDAP, calling it a German Workers Party,
was a way to show that an alternative was possible for the workers without being hostile to
their concerns. He wrote that making the party flag red was a way to provoke the Left. In
1920s Germany the workers were completely indoctrinated by the Left into believing that
only a party with the name socialist stood on their side. This was helped by the conservative
right-wing parties also adopting class politics as a response to the Lefts attacks. Hitler wrote
many times in Mein Kampf that no concession is too great to win the workers to our side as workers were used by the Marxists to attack conservative and nationalist party gatherings,
riot in the streets, beat up shopkeepers and loot their stores, and for general terror in
preparation for a communist takeover. In parliament, the NSDAP allied with the
Conservatives, siding with them in cultural issues. Their socialism consisted of approving
of basic labor laws, retirement funds, etc. But no anti-conservative transformation of society.
Their concessions to workers demands were less than the consessions of most Western
conservative parties today.
In 1933 the Conservatives voted with to give Hitler rule by decree to stop the Lefts terror,
and almost all Conservative members of parliament joined the NSDAP. The leaders for the
socialist parties were later arrested. Socialist leaders of labor unions were likewise arrested.
Germany under the NSDAP had a lower tax pressure than Britain, and its labor laws were far
less leftist than what the West has today. Gun laws from the Weimar time were relaxed, gun
ownership was widespread, and guns were only banned for communists, Jews and other nonGermans. (While the police would not carry guns or even truncheons, as Hitler considered
that demeaning to the public.) The most left-wing policy consisted of production quotas for
large corporations, but these were eventually abolished and recognized as a mistake. As Hitler
said, the party had no unchanging economic policy like the other parties, but would try
different policies and see what worked. Our socialism is not the socialism of the Left, he
said, and We will take the word socialism from the socialists. The word socialism was
used simply as a strategy to win over the voters, and changed to signify basic solidary with
ones own people, but without the Lefts worldview of oppressors vs. oppressed and anticonservatism. The NSDAP was arguably the most conservative party in Europe.
Below follow the quotes about Marxism from Mein Kampf.
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It was during this period that my eyes were opened to two perils, the
names of which I scarcely knew hitherto and had no notion whatsoever of
their terrible significance for the existence of the German people.
These two perils were Marxism and Judaism.
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It is impossible to say when I might have started to make a thorough

study of the doctrine and characteristics of Marxism were it not for the
fact that I then literally ran head foremost into the problem.
And so at the age of seventeen the word Marxism was very little known
to me, while I looked on Social Democracy and Socialism as
synonymous expressions. It was only as the result of a sudden blow from
the rough hand of Fate that my eyes were opened to the nature of this
unparalleled system for duping the public.
Hitherto my acquaintance with the Social Democratic Party was only that
of a mere spectator at some of their mass meetings. I had not the
slightest idea of the Social-Democratic teaching or the mentality of its
partisans. All of a sudden I was brought face to face with the products
of their teaching and what they called their Weltanschauung. In this
way a few months sufficed for me to learn something which under other
circumstances might have necessitated decades of study--namely, that
under the cloak of social virtue and love of ones neighbour a veritable
pestilence was spreading abroad and that if this pestilence be not
stamped out of the world without delay it may eventually succeed in
exterminating the human race.
The man who has come to know this race has succeeded in removing from
his eyes the veil through which he had seen the aims and meaning of his
Party in a false light; and then, out of the murk and fog of social
phrases rises the grimacing figure of Marxism.
Making an effort to overcome my natural reluctance, I tried to read
articles of this nature published in the Marxist Press; but in doing so
my aversion increased all the more. And then I set about learning
something of the people who wrote and published this mischievous stuff.
From the publisher downwards, all of them were Jews. I recalled to mind
the names of the public leaders of Marxism, and then I realized that
most of them belonged to the Chosen Race--the Social Democratic
representatives in the Imperial Cabinet as well as the secretaries of
the Trades Unions and the street agitators. Everywhere the same sinister
picture presented itself. I shall never forget the row of
names--Austerlitz, David, Adler, Ellenbogen, and others. One fact became
quite evident to me. It was that this alien race held in its hands the
leadership of that Social Democratic Party with whose minor
representatives I had been disputing for months past. I was happy at
last to know for certain that the Jew is not a German.

Thus I finally discovered who were the evil spirits leading our people
astray. The sojourn in Vienna for one year had proved long enough to
convince me that no worker is so rooted in his preconceived notions that
he will not surrender them in face of better and clearer arguments and
explanations. Gradually I became an expert in the doctrine of the
Marxists and used this knowledge as an instrument to drive home my own
firm convictions. I was successful in nearly every case. The great
masses can be rescued, but a lot of time and a large share of human
patience must be devoted to such work.
But a Jew can never be rescued from his fixed notions.
It was then simple enough to attempt to show them the absurdity of their
teaching. Within my small circle I talked to them until my throat ached
and my voice grew hoarse. I believed that I could finally convince them
of the danger inherent in the Marxist follies. But I only achieved the
contrary result. It seemed to me that immediately the disastrous effects
of the Marxist Theory and its application in practice became evident,
the stronger became their obstinacy.
Urged by my own daily experiences, I now began to investigate more
thoroughly the sources of the Marxist teaching itself. Its effects were
well known to me in detail. As a result of careful observation, its
daily progress had become obvious to me. And one needed only a little
imagination in order to be able to forecast the consequences which must
result from it. The only question now was: Did the founders foresee the
effects of their work in the form which those effects have shown
themselves today, or were the founders themselves the victims of an
error? To my mind both alternatives were possible.
Fate answered the question for me inasmuch as it led me to make a
detached and exhaustive inquiry into the Marxist teaching and the
activities of the Jewish people in connection with it.
The Jewish doctrine of Marxism repudiates the aristocratic principle of
Nature and substitutes for it the eternal privilege of force and energy,
numerical mass and its dead weight. Thus it denies the individual worth
of the human personality, impugns the teaching that nationhood and race
have a primary significance, and by doing this it takes away the very
foundations of human existence and human civilization. If the Marxist
teaching were to be accepted as the foundation of the life of the
universe, it would lead to the disappearance of all order that is
conceivable to the human mind. And thus the adoption of such a law would
provoke chaos in the structure of the greatest organism that we know,
with the result that the inhabitants of this earthly planet would

finally disappear.
Should the Jew, with the aid of his Marxist creed, triumph over the
people of this world, his Crown will be the funeral wreath of mankind,
and this planet will once again follow its orbit through ether, without
any human life on its surface, as it did millions of years ago.
Democracy, as practised in Western Europe today, is the forerunner of
Marxism. In fact, the latter would not be conceivable without the
former. Democracy is the breeding-ground in which the bacilli of the
Marxist world pest can grow and spread. By the introduction of
parliamentarianism, democracy produced an abortion of filth and fire
(Note 6), the creative fire of which, however, seems to have died out.
There, in Vienna, stark reality taught me the truths that now form the
fundamental principles of the Party which within the course of five years has
grown from modest beginnings to a great mass movement. I do not know
what my attitude toward Jewry, Social Democracy, or rather Marxism in
general, to the social problem, etc., would be today if I had not acquired a
stock of personal beliefs at such an early age, by dint of hard study
and under the duress of Fate.
Since a commercial and industrial policy had been adopted, no motive was
left for waging war against Russia. Only the enemies of the two
countries, Germany and Russia, could have an active interest in such a
war under these circumstances. As a matter of fact, it was only the Jews
and the Marxists who tried to stir up bad blood between the two States.
The force to which I refer was the Marxist teaching and Weltanschauung and
its organized action throughout the nation.
In delving again into the theoretical literature of this new world and
endeavouring to get a clear view of the possible consequences of its teaching,
I compared the theoretical principles of Marxism with the phenomena and
happenings brought about by its activities in the political, cultural, and
economic spheres.
For the first time in my life I now turned my attention to the efforts
that were being made to subdue this universal pest.

I studied Bismarcks exceptional legislation in its original concept,

its operation and its results. Gradually I formed a basis for my own
opinions, which has proved as solid as a rock, so that never since have
I had to change my attitude towards the general problem. I also made a
further and more thorough analysis of the relations between Marxism and
Jewry.
In my own mind and in my conversation with my small circle of
acquaintances I used to criticize Germanys foreign policy and the incredibly
superficial way, according to my thinking, in which Marxism was dealt with,
though it was then the most important problem in Germany. I could not
understand how they could stumble blindfolded into the midst of this peril,
the effects of which would be momentous if the openly declared aims of
Marxism could be put into practice. Even as early as that time I warned people
around me, just as I am warning a wider audience now, against that soothing
slogan of all indolent and feckless nature: NOTHING CAN HAPPEN TO US.
A similar mental contagion had already destroyed a mighty empire. Can
Germany escape the operation of those laws to which all other human
communities are subject?
In the years 1913 and 1914 I expressed my opinion for the first time in
various circles, some of which are now members of the National Socialist
Movement, that the problem of how the future of the German nation can be
secured is the problem of how Marxism can be exterminated.
But since no one recognized, or wanted to recognize, the real cause of the
disease this way of combating Marxism was no more effective than the
application of some quacks ointment.
Another thing which irritated me was the manner in which Marxism was
regarded and accepted. I thought that all this proved how little they
knew about the Marxist plague. It was believed in all seriousness that
the abolition of party distinctions during the War had made Marxism a
mild and moderate thing.
In the August of 1914 the German worker was looked upon as an adherent of
Marxist socialism. That was a gross error. When those fateful hours
dawned the German worker shook off the poisonous clutches of that
plague; otherwise he would not have been so willing and ready to fight.
And people were stupid enough to imagine that Marxism had now become
national, another apt illustration of the fact that those in authority
had never taken the trouble to study the real tenor of the Marxist

teaching. If they had done so, such foolish errors would not have been
committed.
Marxism, whose final objective was and is and will continue to be the
destruction of all non-Jewish national States, had to witness in those
days of July 1914 how the German working classes, which it had been
inveigling, were aroused by the national spirit and rapidly ranged
themselves on the side of the Fatherland. Within a few days the
deceptive smoke screen of that infamous national betrayal had vanished
into thin air and the Jewish bosses suddenly found themselves alone and
deserted. It was as if not a vestige had been left of that folly and
madness with which the masses of the German people had been inoculated
for sixty years.
It is only in the struggle between two Weltanschauungen that physical force,
consistently and ruthlessly applied, will eventually turn the scales in
its own favour. It was here that the fight against Marxism had hitherto
failed.
This was also the reason why Bismarcks anti-socialist legislation
failed and was bound to fail in the long run, despite everything. It
lacked the basis of a new Weltanschauung for whose development and
extension the struggle might have been taken up. To say that the serving
up of drivel about a so-called State Authority or Law and Order was
an adequate foundation for the spiritual driving force in a
life-or-death struggle is only what one would expect to hear from the
wiseacres in high official positions.
It was because there were no adequate spiritual motives back of this
offensive that Bismarck was compelled to hand over the administration of
his socialist legislative measures to the judgment and approval of those
circles which were themselves the product of the Marxist teaching. Thus
a very ludicrous state of affairs prevailed when the Iron Chancellor
surrendered the fate of his struggle against Marxism to the goodwill of
the bourgeois democracy. He left the goat to take care of the garden.
But this was only the necessary result of the failure to find a
fundamentally new Weltanschauung which would attract devoted champions
to its cause and could be established on the ground from which Marxism
had been driven out. And thus the result of the Bismarckian campaign was
deplorable.
During the World War, or at the beginning of it, were the conditions any
different? Unfortunately, they were not.
The more I then pondered over the necessity for a change in the attitude
of the executive government towards Social Democracy, as the
incorporation of contemporary Marxism, the more I realized the want of a
practical substitute for this doctrine. Supposing Social Democracy were

overthrown, what had one to offer the masses in its stead? Not a single
movement existed which promised any success in attracting vast numbers
of workers who would be now more or less without leaders, and holding
these workers in its train. It is nonsensical to imagine that the
international fanatic who has just severed his connection with a class
party would forthwith join a bourgeois party, or, in other words,
another class organization.
Nevertheless it only illustrates the mentality of our so-called intellectual
circles, that they have not yet grasped the fact that circumstances which are
incapable of preventing the growth of such a plague as Marxism are
certainly not capable of restoring what has been lost.
The bourgeois parties--a name coined by themselves--will never again be
able to win over and hold the proletarian masses in their train. That is
because two worlds here stand opposed to one another, in part naturally
and in part artificially divided. These two camps have one leading
thought, and that is that they must fight one another. But in such a
fight the younger will come off victorious; and that is Marxism.
In 1914 a fight against Social Democracy was indeed quite conceivable.
But the lack of any practical substitute made it doubtful how long the
fight could be kept up. In this respect there was a gaping void.
In watching the course of political events I was always struck by the
active part which propaganda played in them. I saw that it was an
instrument, which the Marxist Socialists knew how to handle in a
masterly way and how to put it to practical uses.
If this conspiracy could achieve its purpose the German front would have
collapsed and the wishes of the Vorwrts (the organ of the
Social-Democratic Party) that this time victory should not take the side
of the German banners, would have been fulfilled. For want of munitions
the front would be broken through within a few weeks, the offensive
would be effectively stopped and the Entente saved. Then International
Finance would assume control over Germany and the internal objective of
the Marxist national betrayal would be achieved. That objective was the
destruction of the national economic system and the establishment of
international capitalistic domination in its stead.
Emperor William II was the first German Emperor to offer the hand of
friendship to the Marxist leaders, not suspecting that they were

scoundrels without any sense of honour. While they held the imperial
hand in theirs, the other hand was already feeling for the dagger.
I began to study again and thus it was that I first came to understand
perfectly what was the substance and purpose of the life-work of the
Jew, Karl Marx. His Capital became intelligible to me now for the first
time. And in the light of it I now exactly understood the fight of the
Social Democrats against national economics, a fight which was to
prepare the ground for the hegemony of a real international and
stock-exchange capital.
The fact that the Centre and Marxism had adopted this policy was
instructive, because if they had not thus curtailed the rights of the
citizen--as they described the political rights of the soldiers after
the Revolution--the government which had been established in November
1918 would have been overthrown within a few years and the dishonour and
disgrace of the nation would not have been further prolonged.
The minds of the bourgeois middle classes had become so fossilized that
they sincerely believed the army could once again become what it had
previously been, namely, a rampart of German valour; while the Centre
Party and the Marxists intended only to extract the poisonous tooth of
nationalism, without which an army must always remain just a police
force but can never be in the position of a military organization
capable of fighting against the outside enemy. This truth was
sufficiently proved by subsequent events.
It was a small pamphlet of which this worker was the author. In his little
book he described how his mind had thrown off the shackles of the
Marxist and trade-union phraseology, and that he had come back to the
nationalist ideals. That was the reason why he had entitled his little book:
My Political Awakening. The pamphlet secured my attention the
moment I began to read, and I read it with interest to the end. The process
here described was similar to that which I had experienced in my own
case ten years previously.
But it remained for the Jews, with their unqualified capacity for
falsehood, and their fighting comrades, the Marxists, to impute
responsibility for the downfall precisely to the man who alone had shown
a superhuman will and energy in his effort to prevent the catastrophe

which he had foreseen and to save the nation from that hour of complete
overthrow and shame. By placing responsibility for the loss of the world
war on the shoulders of Ludendorff they took away the weapon of moral
right from the only adversary dangerous enough to be likely to succeed
in bringing the betrayers of the Fatherland to Justice. All this was
inspired by the principle--which is quite true in itself--that in the
big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the
broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper
strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and
thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall
victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often
tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to
large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to
fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others
could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though
the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their
minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that
there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always
leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact
which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire
together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use
falsehood for the basest purposes.
Before the War the internationalization of the German economic structure
had already begun by the roundabout way of share issues. It is true that
a section of the German industrialists made a determined attempt to
avert the danger, but in the end they gave way before the united attacks
of money-grabbing capitalism, which was assisted in this fight by its
faithful henchmen in the Marxist movement.
The persistent war against German heavy industries was the visible
start of the internationalization of German economic life as envisaged
by the Marxists. This, however, could only be brought to a successful
conclusion by the victory which Marxism was able to gain in the
Revolution. As I write these words, success is attending the general
attack on the German State Railways which are now to be turned over to
international capitalists. Thus International Social Democracy has
once again attained one of its main objectives.
The function of the so-called liberal Press was to dig the grave for the
German people and Reich. No mention need be made of the lying Marxist
Press. To them the spreading of falsehood is as much a vital necessity
as the mouse is to a cat.

While the Marxist newspaper, in the most despicable manner possible, reviled
everything that was sacred, furiously attacked the State and Government
and incited certain classes of the community against each other, the
bourgeois-democratic papers, also in Jewish hands, knew how to
camouflage themselves as model examples of objectivity. They studiously
avoided harsh language, knowing well that blockheads are capable of
judging only by external appearances and never able to penetrate to the
real depth and meaning of anything. They measure the worth of an object
by its exterior and not by its content. This form of human frailty was
carefully studied and understood by the Press.
For ten parliamentary mandates they would ally themselves with the
Marxists, who are the mortal foes of all religion.
By means of the Marxist and democratic Press, the Jews spread the
colossal falsehood about German Militarism throughout the world and
tried to inculpate Germany by every possible means, while at the same
time the Marxist and democratic parties refused to assent to the
measures that were necessary for the adequate training of our national
defence forces.
The Jew artfully enkindled that innate yearning for social justice which
is a typical Aryan characteristic. Once that yearning became alive it was
transformed into hatred against those in more fortunate circumstances of
life. The next stage was to give a precise philosophical aspect to the
struggle for the elimination of social wrongs. And thus the Marxist
doctrine was invented.
This Marxist doctrine is an individual mixture of human reason and
human absurdity; but the combination is arranged in such a way that only
the absurd part of it could ever be put into practice, but never the
reasonable part of it. By categorically repudiating the personal worth of
the individual and also the nation and its racial constituent, this doctrine
destroys the fundamental basis of all civilization; for civilization
essentially depends on these very factors. Such is the true essence of the
Marxist Weltanschauung, so far as the word Weltanschauung can be
applied at all to this phantom arising from a criminal brain.
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The very absurdity of the economic and political theories of Marxism

gives the doctrine its peculiar significance. Because of its
pseudo-logic, intelligent people refuse to support it, while all those
who are less accustomed to use their intellectual faculties, or who have
only a rudimentary notion of economic principles, join the Marxist cause
with flying banners.
To those two instruments of disintegration a third and still more ruthless
one was added, namely, the organization of brute physical force among
the masses. As massed columns of attacks, the Marxist troops stormed
those parts of the social order which had been left standing after the two
former undermining operations had done their work.
The combined activity of all these forces has been marvellously managed.
And it will not be surprising if it turns out that those institutions
which have always appeared as the organs of the more or less traditional
authority of the State should now fall before the Marxist attack.
Not satisfied with the economic conquest of the world, but also
demanding that it must come under his political control, the Jew
subdivides the organized Marxist power into two parts, which correspond
to the ultimate objectives that are to be fought for in this struggle
which is carried on under the direction of the Jew.
While the upper classes, with their innate cowardliness, turn away from
anyone whom the Jew thus attacks with lies and calumny, the common
people are credulous of everything, whether because of their ignorance
or their simple-mindedness. Government authorities wrap themselves up in
a robe of silence, but more frequently they persecute the victims of
Jewish attacks in order to stop the campaign in the Jewish Press. To the
fatuous mind of the government official such a line of conduct appears
to belong to the policy of upholding the authority of the State and
preserving public order. Gradually the Marxist weapon in the hands of
the Jew becomes a constant bogy to decent people.
In the field of politics he now begins to replace the idea of democracy
by introducing the dictatorship of the proletariat. In the masses
organized under the Marxist banners he has found a weapon which makes it
possible for him to discard democracy, so as to subjugate and rule in a
dictatorial fashion by the aid of brute force. He is systematically

working in two ways to bring about this revolution. These ways are the
economic and the political respectively.
At the elections to the Reichstag the growing number of Marxist votes
indicated that the internal breakdown and the political collapse were
then rapidly approaching. All the victories of the so-called bourgeois
parties were fruitless, not only because they could not prevent the
numerical increase in the growing mass of Marxist votes, even when the
bourgeois parties triumphed at the polls, but mainly because they
themselves were already infected with the germs of decay. Though quite
unaware of it, the bourgeois world was infected from within with the
deadly virus of Marxist ideas. The fact that they sometimes openly
resisted was to be explained by the competitive strife among ambitious
political leaders, rather than by attributing it to any opposition in
principle between adversaries who were determined to fight one another
to the bitter end.
Therefore it was not a solid national phalanx that, of itself and out of
its own feeling of solidarity, rushed to the battlefields in August
1914. But it was rather the manifestation of the last flicker from the
instinct of national self-preservation against the progress of the
paralysis with which the pacifist and Marxist doctrine threatened our
people.
Over against this class stood the broad masses of manual labourers who
were organized in movements with a more or less radically Marxist
tendency.
For it is not we ourselves alone who are aware of the handicap that
results from the existence of fifteen million Marxists, democrats,
pacifists and followers of the Centre, in our midst, but foreign nations
also recognize this internal burden which we have to bear and take it
into their calculations when estimating the value of a possible alliance
with us.
The millions, however, who are opposed to every kind of national
revival simply because of their political opinions, constitute an
insurmountable obstacle. At least the obstacle will remain insurmountable
as long as the cause of their opposition, which is international Marxism,

is not overcome and its teachings banished from both their hearts and heads.
Social Democracy and the whole Marxist movement were particularly
qualified to attract the great masses of the nation, because of the
uniformity of the public to which they addressed their appeal. The more
limited and narrow their ideas and arguments, the easier it was for the
masses to grasp and assimilate them; for those ideas and arguments were
well adapted to a low level of intelligence.
To secure name and fame for the movement and its leader it was necessary,
not only to give in this one town a striking example to shatter the belief
that the Marxist doctrine was invincible but also to show that a
counter-doctrine was possible.
The Marxist leaders, whose business consisted in deceiving and
misleading the public, naturally hated most of all a movement whose
declared aim was to win over those masses which hitherto had been
exclusively at the service of international Marxism in the Jewish and
Stock Exchange parties. The title alone, German Labour party,
irritated them. It could easily be foreseen that at the first opportune
moment we should have to face the opposition of the Marxist despots,
who were still intoxicated with their triumph in 1918.
One result of our tactics was to show up clearly the close political
fraternization that existed also here in Bavaria between the Marxists
and the Centre Party. The political party that held power in Bavaria,
which was the Bavarian Peoples Party (affiliated with the Centre Party)
did its best to counteract the effect which our placards were having on
the Red masses.
Above all, Phner was one of those people who, in contradistinction to
the majority of our so-called defenders of the authority of the State,
did not fear to incur the enmity of the traitors to the country and the
nation but rather courted it as a mark of honour and honesty. For such
men the hatred of the Jews and Marxists and the lies and calumnies they
spread, were their only source of happiness in the midst of the national
misery. Phner was a man of granite loyalty. He was like one of the
ascetic characters of the classical era and was at the same time that
kind of straightforward German for whom the saying Better dead than a
slave is not an empty phrase but a veritable hearts cry.

This force was destined to impede the triumphant advance of the Marxists
and bring the Chariot of Fate to a standstill just as it seemed about to reach
its goal.
Scarcely anything else can be so depressing as to watch this process in
sober reality and to be the eyewitness of this repeatedly recurring
fraud. On a spiritual training ground of that kind it is not possible
for the bourgeois forces to develop the strength which is necessary to
carry on the fight against the organized might of Marxism. Indeed they
have never seriously thought of doing so.
Democracy is exploited by the Marxists for the purpose of paralysing their
opponents and gaining for themselves a free hand to put their own methods
into action. When certain groups of Marxists use all their ingenuity for the
time being to make it be believed that they are inseparably attached to the
principles of democracy, it may be well to recall the fact that when critical
occasions arose these same gentlemen snapped their fingers at the principle
of decision by majority vote, as that principle is understood by Western
Democracy.
Democracy is exploited by the Marxists for the purpose of paralysing their
opponents and gaining for themselves a free hand to put their own methods
into action. When certain groups of Marxists use all their ingenuity for the
time being to make it be believed that they are inseparably attached to the
principles of democracy, it may be well to recall the fact that when critical
occasions arose these same gentlemen snapped their fingers at the principle
of decision by majority vote, as that principle is understood by Western
Democracy.
And international Marxism is nothing but the application--effected by the
Jew, Karl Marx--of a general conception of life to a definite profession of
political faith; but in reality that general concept had existed long before
the time of Karl Marx. If it had not already existed as a widely diffused
infection the amazing political progress of the Marxist teaching would
never have been possible. In reality what distinguished Karl Marx from
the millions who were affected in the same way was that, in a world
already in a state of gradual decomposition, he used his keen powers of
prognosis to detect the essential poisons, so as to extract them and
concentrate them, with the art of a necromancer, in a solution which

would bring about the rapid destruction of the independent nations on the
globe.
Thus the Marxist doctrine is the concentrated extract of the mentality
which underlies the general concept of life today. For this reason
alone it is out of the question and even ridiculous to think that what
is called our bourgeois world can put up any effective fight against
Marxism. For this bourgeois world is permeated with all those same
poisons and its conception of life in general differs from Marxism only
in degree and in the character of the persons who hold it. The bourgeois
world is Marxist but believes in the possibility of a certain group of
people--that is to say, the bourgeoisie--being able to dominate the
world, while Marxism itself systematically aims at delivering the world
into the hands of the Jews.
It selects individual values from the mass and thus operates as an
organizing principle, whereas Marxism acts as a disintegrating solvent.
But the fact that this conception of the world still maintains its independent
existence in face of all the others proves that their ways of looking at life are
quite difierent from this. Thus the Marxist conception, directed by a central
organization endowed with supreme authority, is opposed by a motley crew
of opinions which is not very impressive in face of the solid phalanx
presented by the enemy. Victory cannot be achieved with such weak
weapons. Only when the international idea, politically organized by
Marxism, is confronted by the folk idea, equally well organized in a
systematic way and equally well led--only then will the fighting energy in
the one camp be able to meet that of the other on an equal footing; and
victory will be found on the side of eternal truth.
But a general conception of life can never be given an organic
embodiment until it is precisely and definitely formulated. The function
which dogma fulfills in religious belief is parallel to the function
which party principles fulfill for a political party which is in the
process of being built up. Therefore, for the conception of life that is
based on the folk idea it is necessary that an instrument be forged
which can be used in fighting for this ideal, similar to the Marxist
party organization which clears the way for internationalism.
And this is the aim which the German National Socialist Labour Movement
pursues.
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Thus the Jew, Karl Marx, was able to draw the final conclusions from
these false concepts and ideas on the nature and purpose of the State.
By eliminating from the concept of the State all thought of the
obligation which the State bears towards the race, without finding any
other formula that might be universally accepted, the bourgeois teaching
prepared the way for that doctrine which rejects the State as such.
That is why the bourgeois struggle against Marxist internationalism is
absolutely doomed to fail in this field. The bourgeois classes have
already sacrificed the basic principles which alone could furnish a
solid footing for their ideas.
It would be absurd to appraise a mans worth by the race to which he
belongs and at the same time to make war against the Marxist principle,
that all men are equal, without being determined to pursue our own
principle to its ultimate consequences.
Marxism represents the most striking phase of the Jewish endeavour to
eliminate the dominant significance of personality in every sphere of
human life and replace it by the numerical power of the masses. In
politics the parliamentary form of government is the expression of this
effort.
Even if, on the basis of its mass theory, Marxism should prove itself
capable of taking over and developing the present economic system, that
would not signify anything. The question as to whether the Marxist
doctrine be right or wrong cannot be decided by any test which would
show that it can administer for the future what already exists today,
but only by asking whether it has the creative power to build up
according to its own principles a civilization which would be a
counterpart of what already exists. Even if Marxism were a thousandfold
capable of taking over the economic life as we now have it and
maintaining it in operation under Marxist direction, such an achievement
would prove nothing; because, on the basis of its own principles,
Marxism would never be able to create something which could supplant
what exists today.
And Marxism itself has furnished the proof that it cannot do this. Not
only has it been unable anywhere to create a cultural or economic system
of its own; but it was not even able to develop, according to its own
principles, the civilization and economic system it found ready at hand.
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The racial Weltanschauung is fundamentally distinguished from the

Marxist by reason of the fact that the former recognizes the
significance of race and therefore also personal worth and has made
these the pillars of its structure. These are the most important factors
of its Weltanschauung.
If the National Socialist Movement should fail to understand the
fundamental importance of this essential principle, if it should merely
varnish the external appearance of the present State and adopt the
majority principle, it would really do nothing more than compete with
Marxism on its own ground. For that reason it would not have the right
to call itself a Weltanschauung. If the social programme of the
movement consisted in eliminating personality and putting the multitude
in its place, then National Socialism would be corrupted with the poison
of Marxism, just as our national-bourgeois parties are.
Marxism too has had its aims to pursue and it also recognizes
constructive work, though by this it understands only the establishment
of despotic rule in the hands of international Jewish finance.
Nevertheless for seventy years its principal work still remains in the
field of criticism. And what disruptive and destructive criticism it has
been! Criticism repeated again and again, until the corrosive acid ate
into the old State so thoroughly that it finally crumbled to pieces.
Only then did the so-called constructive critical work of Marxism
begin.
The fact, which was always looked upon with indifference by our
middle-classes, that only the so-called uneducated classes joined Marxism
was the very ground on which this party achieved its success. For while the
bourgeois parties, because they mostly consisted of intellectuals, were only
a feckless band of undisciplined individuals, out of much less intelligent human
material the Marxist leaders formed a army of party combatants who obey
their Jewish masters just as blindly as they formerly obeyed their
German officers. The German middle classes, who never bothered their
heads about psychological problems because they felt themselves superior
to such matters, did not think it necessary to reflect on the profound
significance of this fact and the secret danger involved in it.
The disruptive work done by the Marxists and the poisonous propaganda of
the external enemy had robbed these people of their reason. And one had
no right to complain. For the guilt on this side was enormous. What had
the German bourgeoisie done to call a halt to this terrible campaign of
disintegration, to oppose it and open a way to a recognition of the
truth by giving a better and more thorough explanation of the situation

than that of the Marxists? Nothing, nothing.

It is useless to object here, as certain big Berlin papers of
German-National tendencies have attempted to do, that this statement is
refuted by the fact that the Marxists have exercised their greatest
influence through their writings, and especially through their principal
book, published by Karl Marx. Seldom has a more superficial argument
been based on a false assumption. What gave Marxism its amazing
influence over the broad masses was not that formal printed work which
sets forth the Jewish system of ideas, but the tremendous oral
propaganda carried on for years among the masses. Out of one hundred
thousand German workers scarcely one hundred know of Marxs book. It has
been studied much more in intellectual circles and especially by the
Jews than by the genuine followers of the movement who come from the
lower classes. That work was not written for the masses, but exclusively
for the intellectual leaders of the Jewish machine for conquering the
world. The engine was heated with quite different stuff: namely, the
journalistic Press. What differentiates the bourgeois Press from the
Marxist Press is that the latter is written by agitators, whereas the
bourgeois Press would like to carry on agitation by means of
professional writers. The Social-Democrat sub-editor, who almost always
came directly from the meeting to the editorial offices of his paper,
felt his job on his fingertips. But the bourgeois writer who left his
desk to appear before the masses already felt ill when he smelled the
very odour of the crowd and found that what he had written was useless
to him.
What won over millions of workpeople to the Marxist cause was not the
ex cathedra style of the Marxist writers but the formidable propagandist
work done by tens of thousands of indefatigable agitators, commencing
with the leading fiery agitator down to the smallest official in the
syndicate, the trusted delegate and the platform orator.
This kind of propaganda influenced men in such a way as to give them a
taste for reading the Social Democratic Press and prepare their minds
for its teaching. That Press, in its turn, was a vehicle of the spoken
word rather than of the written word. Whereas in the bourgeois camp
professors and learned writers, theorists and authors of all kinds, made
attempts at talking, in the Marxist camp real speakers often made
attempts at writing.
The masses of illiterate Russians were not fired to Communist
revolutionary enthusiasm by reading the theories of Karl Marx but by the
promises of paradise made to the people by thousands of agitators in the

service of an idea.
The National Socialist Movement should never forget this, and it should
never allow itself to be influenced by these bourgeois duffers who think
they know everything but who have foolishly gambled away a great State,
together with their own existence and the supremacy of their own class.
They are overflowing with ability; they can do everything, and they know
everything. But there is one thing they have not known how to do, and
that is how to save the German people from falling into the arms of
Marxism. In that they have shown themselves most pitiably and miserably
impotent.
The ordinary bourgeoisie were very shocked to see that we had also chosen
the symbolic red of Bolshevism, and they regarded this as something
unambiguously significant. The suspicion was whispered in German
Nationalist circles that we also were merely another variety of Marxism,
perhaps even Marxists suitably disguised, or better still, Socialists. The actual
difference between Socialism and Marxism still remains a mystery to these
people up to this day. The charge of Marxism was conclusively proved when
it was discovered that at our meetings we deliberately substituted the words
fellow countrymen and women for ladies and gentlemen and addressed
each other as party comrade. We used to roar with laughter at these
silly faint-hearted bourgeoisie and their efforts to puzzle out our
origin, our intentions and our aims.
We chose red for our posters after particular and careful deliberation,
our intention being to irritate the Left, so as to arouse their attention and tempt
them to come to our meetings--if only in order to break them up--so that in this
way we had a chance of talking to the people.
Those fifteen or twenty men would certainly have been overwhelmed in
the end had not the opponents known that three or four times as many of
themselves would first get their skulls cracked. Arid that risk they were
not willing to run. We had done our best to study Marxist and bourgeois
methods of conducting meetings, and we had certainly learned something.
The Marxists had always exercised a most rigid discipline so that the
question of breaking up their meetings could never have originated in
bourgeois quarters. This gave the Reds all the more reason for acting on
this plan. In time they not only became masters in this art but in
certain large districts of the Reich they went so far as to declare that
non-Marxist meetings were nothing less than a cause of provocation
against the proletariat.

Therefore, our methods of organization at National Socialist meetings

were something quite strange to the Marxists. They came to our meetings
in the belief that the little game which they had so often played could
as a matter of course be also repeated on us. Today we shall finish
them off. How often did they bawl this out to each other on entering
the meeting hall, only to be thrown out with lightning speed before they
had time to repeat it.
If time permitted and if it suited us, a discussion would be allowed to
take place. Our party colleague would now make his speech.... That kind
of talk was sufficient in itself to astonish the Marxists.
Secondly, we had at our disposal a well-trained and organized body of
men for maintaining order at our meetings. On the other hand the
bourgeois parties protected their meetings with a body of men better
classified as ushers who by virtue of their age thought they were
entitled to authority and respect. But as Marxism has little or no
respect for these things, the question of suitable self-protection at
these bourgeois meetings was, so to speak, in practice non-existent.
In Berlin, after the War, I was present at a mass demonstration of Marxists
in front of the Royal Palace and in the Lustgarten. A sea of red flags, red
armlets and red flowers was in itself sufficient to give that huge assembly of
about 120,000 persons an outward appearance of strength. I was now able
to feel and understand how easily the man in the street succumbs to the
hypnotic magic of such a grandiose piece of theatrical presentation.
The bourgeoisie, which as a party neither possesses or stands for any
Weltanschauung, had therefore not a single banner.
Of course, the black, red and gold of the German parties in the old Austria were
the colours of the year 1848: that is to say, of a period likely to be regarded as
somewhat visionary, but it was a period that had honest German souls as
its representatives, although the Jews were lurking unseen as
wire-pullers in the background. It was high treason and the shameful
enslavement of the German territory that first of all made these colours
so attractive to the Marxists of the Centre Party; so much so that
today they revere them as their most cherished possession and use them
as their own banners for the protection of the flag they once foully
besmirched.
It is a fact, therefore, that, up till 1920, in opposition to the

Marxists there was no flag that would have stood for a consolidated
resistance to them.
It was obvious that the symbol of a rgime which had been overthrown by
the Marxists under inglorious circumstances was not now worthy to serve
as a banner under which the same Marxism was to be crushed in its turn.
The Movement which is fighting Marxism today along these lines must
display on its banner the symbol of the new State.
Crowds gathered round our posters; the large meeting halls in the town
were always filled and tens of thousands of people, who had been led astray
by the teachings of Marxism, found their way to us and assisted in the
work of fighting for the liberation of the Reich.
At that time there was no party in Munich with the exception of the
Marxist parties--certainly no nationalist party--which was able to hold
such mass demonstrations as ours. The Munich Kindl Hall, which held
5,000 people, was more than once overcrowded and up till then there was
only one other hall, the Krone Circus Hall, into which we had not
ventured.
It was the first time that lorries had driven through the streets bearing flags
and not manned by Marxists. The public stared open-mouthed at these
red-draped cars, and in the outlying districts clenched fists were angrily
raised at this new evidence of provocation of the proletariat. Were not the
Marxists the only ones entitled to hold meetings and drive about in motor
lorries?
But it was very difficult to establish any abiding authority on the
popular support given to these Marxist freebooters.
The Independent Socialist Party and the Spartacist League were the storm
battalions of revolutionary Marxism. The objective assigned to them was to
create a fait accompli, on the grounds of which the masses of the Social
Democratic Party could take their stand, having been prepared for this event

long beforehand. The feckless bourgeoisie had been estimated at its just
value by the Marxists and treated en canaille. Nobody bothered about it,
knowing well that in their canine servility the representatives of an old and
worn-out generation would not be able to offer any serious resistance.
The German political bourgeoisie achieved the high honour of being able
to associate itself with the accursed Marxist leaders for the purpose of
combating Bolshevism.
Thus the following state of affairs took shape as early as December 1918
and January 1919:
A minority constituted of the worst elements had made the Revolution.
And behind this minority all the Marxist parties immediately fell into
step.
Gradually the barricade heroes in the Spartacist camp petered out, and
so did the nationalist patriots and idealists on the other side. As
these two groups steadily dwindled, the masses of the middle stratum, as
always happens, triumphed. The Bourgeoisie and the Marxists met together
on the grounds of accomplished facts, and the Republic began to be
consolidated.
When Marxism emerged in the world of bourgeois democracy, as a
consequence of that democracy itself, the appeal sent out by the
bourgeois democracy to fight Marxism with intellectual weapons was a
piece of folly for which a terrible expiation had to be made later on.
For Marxism always professed the doctrine that the use of arms was a
matter which had to be judged from the standpoint of expediency and that
success justified the use of arms.
This idea was proved correct during the days from November 7 to 10,
1918. The Marxists did not then bother themselves in the least about
parliament or democracy, but they gave the death blow to both by turning
loose their horde of criminals to shoot and raise hell.
When the law for the Protection of the Republic was introduced the
majority was not at first in favour of it. But, confronted with two
hundred thousand Marxists demonstrating in the streets, the bourgeois
statesmen were so terror-stricken that they voted for the Law against
their wills, for the edifying reason that otherwise they feared they
might get their heads smashed by the enraged masses on leaving the

Reichstag.
The only organizations which at that time had the strength and courage
to face Marxism and its enraged masses were first of all the volunteer
corps (Note 19), and subsequently the organizations for self-defence, the
civic guards and finally the associations formed by the demobilized
soldiers of the old Army.
The success which Marxism once attained was due to perfect cooperation
between political purposes and ruthless force.
In the consolidated Reichswehr Marxism gradually acquired the support of
force, which it needed for its authority. As a logical consequence it
proceeded to abolish those defence associations which it considered
dangerous, declaring that they were now no longer necessary. Some rash
leaders who defied the Marxist orders were summoned to court and sent to
prison.
The German State is intensely overrun by Marxism. In a struggle that
went on for seventy years the State was not able to prevent the triumph
of the Marxist idea. Even though the sentences to penal servitude and
imprisonment amounted in all to thousands of years, and even though the
most sanguinary methods of repression were in innumerable instances
threatened against the champions of the Marxist Weltanschauung, in the
end the State was forced to capitulate almost completely. The ordinary
bourgeois political leaders will deny all this, but their protests are
futile.
Seeing that the State capitulated unconditionally to Marxism on November
9th, 1918, it will not suddenly rise up tomorrow as the conqueror of
Marxism. On the contrary. Bourgeois simpletons sitting on office stools
in the various ministries babble about the necessity of not governing
against the wishes of the workers, and by the word workers they mean
the Marxists. By identifying the German worker with Marxism not only are
they guilty of a vile falsification of the truth, but they thus try to
hide their own collapse before the Marxist idea and the Marxist
organization.
In view of the complete subordination of the present State to Marxism,
the National Socialist Movement feels all the more bound not only to
prepare the way for the triumph of its idea by appealing to the reason
and understanding of the public but also to take upon itself the

responsibility of organizing its own defence against the terror of the

International, which is intoxicated with its own victory.
Once we had begun to appear as a danger to Marxism the Marxists lost no
opportunity of trying to crush beforehand all preparations for the holding
of National Socialist meetings. When they did not succeed in this they
tried to break up the meeting itself.
It goes without saying that all the Marxist organizations, no matter of
what grade or view, blindly supported the policy and activities of their
representatives in every case. But what is to be said of the bourgeois
parties who, when they were reduced to silence by these same Marxists
and in many places did not dare to send their speakers to appear before
the public, yet showed themselves pleased, in a stupid and
incomprehensible manner, every time we received any kind of setback in
our fight against Marxism.The bourgeois parties were happy to think
that those whom they themselves could not stand up against, but had to
knuckle down to, could not be broken by us. What must be said of those
State officials, chiefs of police, and even cabinet ministers, who
showed a scandalous lack of principle in presenting themselves
externally to the public as national and yet shamelessly acted as the
henchmen of the Marxists in the disputes which we, National Socialists,
had with the latter. What can be said of persons who debased themselves
so far, for the sake of a little abject praise in the Jewish Press, that
they persecuted those men to whose heroic courage and intervention,
regardless of risk, they were partly indebted for not having been torn
to pieces by the Red mob a few years previously and strung up to the
lampposts?
Dagger and pistol and poison vial cannot clear the way for the progress
of the movement. That can be done only by winning over the man in the
street. We must overthrow Marxism, so that for the future National
Socialism will be master of the street, just as it will one day become
master of the State.
During 1919 and 1920 there was danger that the members of secret
organizations, under the influence of great historical examples and
overcome by the immensity of the nations misfortunes, might attempt to
wreak vengeance on the destroyers of their country, under the belief
that this would end the miseries of the people. All such attempts were
sheer folly, for the reason that the Marxist triumph was not due to the
superior genius of one remarkable person but rather to immeasurable
incompetence and cowardly shirking on the part of the bourgeoisie. The
hardest criticism that can be uttered against our bourgeoisie is simply

to state the fact that it submitted to the Revolution, even though the
Revolution did not produce one single man of eminent worth.
In this way the struggle against the present State was placed on a
higher plane than that of petty revenge and small conspiracies. It
was elevated to the level of a spiritual struggle on behalf of a
Weltanschauung, for the destruction of Marxism in all its shapes
and forms.
Adopting the typically Marxist and Jewish method of spreading
falsehoods, leaflets were distributed by hand on the streets, bearing
the caption: Comrades and Comradesses of the International
Proletariat. These leaflets were meant to arouse the wrath of the
populace. Twisting the facts completely around, they declared that our
bands of assasins had commenced a war of extermination against the
peaceful workers of Coburg.
Our contemporaries began to pay us special attention and for the first
time many recognized the National Socialist Movement as an
organization that in all probability was destined to bring the Marxist
folly to a deserving end.
Generally speaking, the bourgeois Press was partly distressed and partly
vulgar, as always. Only a few decent newspapers expressed their
satisfaction that at least in one locality the Marxist street bullies
had been effectively dealt with.
And in Coburg itself at least a part of the Marxist workers who must be
looked upon as misled, learned from the blows of National Socialist
fists that these workers were also fighting for ideals, because
experience teaches that the human being fights only for something in
which he believes and which he loves.
The Marxists, who had always derided and exploited the individual German
states and their princes, now suddenly appealed, as an Independent
Party to those sentiments and instincts which had their strongest roots
in the families of the reigning princes and the individual states.
The fight waged by the Bavarian Soviet Republic against the military
contingents that were sent to free Bavaria from its grasp was

represented by the Marxist propagandists as first of all the Struggle

of the Bavarian Worker against Prussian Militarism.
In recent years things have gone so far that patriotic circles, in
God-forsaken blindness of their religious strife, could not recognize
the folly of their conduct even from the fact that atheist Marxist
newspapers advocated the cause of one religious denomination or the
other, according as it suited Marxist interests, so as to create
confusion through slogans and declarations which were often immeasurably
stupid, now molesting the one party and again the other, and thus poking
the fire to keep the blaze at its highest.
This was the task assigned to it the moment it became a fighting weapon in
the hands of the Marxists. The trades union is not naturally an instrument of
class warfare; but the Marxists transformed it into an instrument for use in
their own class struggle.
There were two ways which might lead to such a development:
(1) We could establish our Trades Union and then gradually take up the
fight against the Marxist International Trades Union.
(2) Or we could enter the Marxist Trades Union and inculcate a new
spirit in it, with the idea of transforming it into an instrument in the
service of the new ideal.
The first way was not advisable, by reason of the fact that our
financial situation was still the cause of much worry to us at that time
and our resources were quite slender. The effects of the inflation were
steadily spreading and made the particular situation still more
difficult for us, because in those years one could scarcely speak of any
material help which the trades unions could extend to their members.
From this point of view, there was no reason why the individual worker
should pay his dues to the union. Even the Marxist unions then existing
were already on the point of collapse until, as the result of Herr
Cunos enlightened Ruhr policy, millions were suddenly poured into their
coffers. This so-called national Chancellor of the Reich should go
down in history as the Redeemer of the Marxist trades unions.
We could not count on similar financial facilities. And nobody could be
induced to enter a new Trades Union which, on account of its financial
weakness, could not offer him the slightest material benefit. On the
other hand, I felt bound absolutely to guard against the creation of
such an organization which would only be a shelter for shirkers of the

more or less intellectual type.

At that time the question of personnel played the most important role. I
did not have a single man whom I might call upon to carry out this
important task. Whoever could have succeeded at that time in
overthrowing the Marxist unions to make way for the triumph of the
National Socialist corporative idea, which would then take the place of
the ruinous class warfare--such a person would be fit to rank with the
very greatest men our nation has produced and his bust should be
installed in the Valhalla at Regensburg for the admiration of posterity.
The Marxist trade-unionist citadel may be governed today by mediocre
leaders, but it cannot be taken by assault except through the dauntless
energy and genius of a superior leader on the other side.
The movement and the nation can derive advantage from a National
Socialist trade unionist organization only if the latter be so
thoroughly inspired by National Socialist ideas that it runs no danger
of falling into step behind the Marxist movement. For a National
Socialist Trades Union which would consider itself only as a competitor
against the Marxist unions would be worse than none. It must declare war
against the Marxist Trades Union, not only as an organization but, above
all, as an idea.
Is it at all possible to conclude an alliance with Germany as it is
today? Can a Power which would enter into an alliance for the purpose
of securing assistance in an effort to carry out its own OFFENSIVE
aims--can such a Power form an alliance with a State whose rulers have
for years long presented a spectacle of deplorable incompetence and
pacifist cowardice and where the majority of the people, blinded by
democratic and Marxist teachings, betray the interests of their own
people and country in a manner that cries to Heaven for vengeance?
The internationalization of our German economic system, that is to say, the
transference of our productive forces to the control of Jewish
international finance, can be completely carried out only in a State
that has been politically Bolshevized. But the Marxist fighting forces,
commanded by international and Jewish stock exchange capital, cannot
finally smash the national resistance in Germany without friendly help
from outside. For this purpose French armies would first have to invade
and overcome the territory of the German Reich until a state of
international chaos would set in, and then the country would have to

succumb to Bolshevik storm troops in the service of Jewish international

finance.
Hence it is that at the present time the Jew is the great agitator for
the complete destruction of Germany. Whenever we read of attacks against
Germany taking place in any part of the world the Jew is always the
instigator. In peacetime, as well as during the War, the Jewish-Marxist
stock exchange Press systematically stirred up hatred against Germany,
until one State after another abandoned its neutrality and placed itself
at the service of the world coalition, even against the real interests
of its own people.
The prohibition of Freemasonry and secret societies, the suppression of the
supernational Press and the definite abolition of Marxism, together with
the steadily increasing consolidation of the Fascist concept of the
State--all this will enable the Italian Government, in the course of
some years, to advance more and more the interests of the Italian people
without paying any attention to the hissing of the Jewish world hydra.
If nationalist circles today grow enthusiastic about the idea of an alliance
with Bolshevism, then let them look around only in Germany and recognize
from what quarter they are being supported. Do these nationalists believe
that a policy which is recommended and acclaimed by the Marxist
international press can be beneficial for the German people? Since when has
the Jew acted as shield bearer for the militant nationalist?
Just as in 1918 we had to pay with our blood for the failure to crush
the Marxist serpent underfoot once and for all in 1914 and 1915, now we
have to suffer retribution for the fact that in the spring of 1923 we
did not seize the opportunity then offered us for finally wiping out the
handiwork done by the Marxists who betrayed their country and were
responsible for the murder of our people.
Only bourgeois minds could have arrived at the incredible belief
that Marxism had probably become quite a different thing now and that
the canaille of ringleaders in 1918, who callously used the bodies of
our two million dead as stepping stones on which they climbed into the
various Government positions, would now, in the year 1923, suddenly show
themselves ready to pay their tribute to the national conscience. It was
veritably a piece of incredible folly to expect that those traitors
would suddenly appear as the champions of German freedom. They had no

intention of doing it. Just as a hyena will not leave its carrion, a
Marxist will not give up indulging in the betrayal of his country. It is
out of the question to put forward the stupid retort here, that so many
of the workers gave their blood for Germany. German workers, yes, but no
longer international Marxists. If the German working class, in 1914,
consisted of real Marxists the War would have ended within three weeks.
Germany would have collapsed before the first soldier had put a foot
beyond the frontiers. No. The fact that the German people carried on the
War proved that the Marxist folly had not yet been able to penetrate
deeply. But as the War was prolonged German soldiers and workers
gradually fell back into the hands of the Marxist leaders, and the
number of those who thus relapsed became lost to their country.
The situation in 1923 was quite similar to that of 1918. No matter what
form of resistance was decided upon, the first prerequisite for taking
action was the elimination of the Marxist poison from the body of the
nation. And I was convinced that the first task then of a really
National Government was to seek and find those forces that were
determined to wage a war of destruction against Marxism and to give
these forces a free hand. It was their duty not to bow down before the
fetish of order and tranquillity at a moment when the enemy from
outside was dealing the Fatherland a death blow and when high treason
was lurking behind every street corner at home. No. A really National
Government ought then to have welcomed disorder and unrest if this
turmoil would afford an opportunity of finally settling with the
Marxists, who are the mortal enemies of our people. If this precaution
were neglected, then it was sheer folly to think of resisting, no matter
what form that resistance might take.
Of course, such a settlement of accounts with the Marxists as would be
of real historical importance could not be effected along lines laid
down by some secret council or according to some plan concocted by the
shrivelled mind of some cabinet minister. It would have to be in
accordance with the eternal laws of life on this Earth which are and
will remain those of a ceaseless struggle for existence.
At that time I often talked myself hoarse in trying to make it clear, at
least to the so-called national circles, what was then at stake and that
by repeating the errors committed in 1914 and the following years we
must necessarily come to the same kind of catastrophe as in 1918. I
frequently implored of them to let Fate have a free hand and to make it
possible for our Movement to settle with the Marxists.
And then also I recognized the fact that all the bourgeois

parties had been fighting Marxism merely from the spirit of competition
without sincerely wishing to destroy it.
At that time--I admit it openly--I conceived a profound admiration for
the great man beyond the Alps, whose ardent love for his people inspired
him not to bargain with Italys internal enemies but to use all possible
ways and means in an effort to wipe them out. What places Mussolini in
the ranks of the worlds great men is his decision not to share Italy
with the Marxists but to redeem his country from Marxism by destroying
internationalism.
The attitude adopted by the bourgeoisie in 1923 and the way in which
they dealt kindly with Marxism decided from the outset the fate of any
attempt at active resistance in the Ruhr.
For if the result of the German action in regard to the French invasion of
the Ruhr had been only the destruction of Marxism at home, success would
have been on our side. Once liberated from the deadly enemies of her
present and future existence, Germany would possess forces which no power
in the world could strangle again. On the day when Marxism is broken in
Germany the chains that bind Germany will be smashed for ever.
Of course they needed the Marxists for the strike, because the workers
would have to be the first to go on strike. Now, in the brain of a
bourgeois statesman such as Cuno, a Marxist and a worker are one and the
same thing. Therefore it was necessary to bring the worker into line
with all the other Germans in a united front.
At Stuttgart and other places he spoke to his people and this people became
lost in admiration for him. Of course they needed the Marxists for the strike,
because the workers would have to be the first to go on strike. Now, in the
brain of a bourgeois statesman such as Cuno, a Marxist and a worker are one
and the same thing. Therefore it was necessary to bring the worker into line
with all the other Germans in a united front. One should have seen how
the countenances of these party politicians beamed with the light of
their moth-eaten bourgeois culture when the great genius spoke the word
of revelation to them. Here was a nationalist and also a man of genius.
At last they had discovered what they had so long sought. For now the
abyss between Marxism and themselves could be bridged over. And thus it
became possible for the pseudo nationalist to ape the German manner and

adopt nationalist phraseology in reaching out the ingenuous hand of

friendship to the internationalist traitors of their country. The
traitor readily grasped that hand, because, just as Herr Cuno had need
of the Marxist chiefs for his united front, the Marxist chiefs needed
Herr Cunos money.