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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 08:34:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Howard Hastings <hhasting-AT-osf1.gmu.edu>
Subject: Re: PLC: Marxist Propaganda


On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, bob scheetz wrote:

> can't cite any speech (are hitler's speeches available in english?)
> but troy is right; the core of marxism, worker-class essence, and class war
> with capitalism, are identical.  and, fer sure, you can't read mein kampf
> without being struck by the comparison with lenin.

Er, wait a minute. I have read Mein Kampf very carefully.  I was not
struck by any comparison with Lenin.  Hitler was a racist idealist who
admired the catholic church and blamed jews for Germany's troubles and
thought life was a Darwinian struggle between races and hoped
Germans could enslave other races.  Lenin was an internationalist who 
opposed WWI, a dialectical materialist who extended Marxist analyses to
the practical problems of revolution and to 20th century imperialism.  He
was motivated by a belief in the fundamental equality of all humans and a
desire to end suffering and exploitation of one group by another.

Then there is the fact that Lenin was extremely well read and a very
careful thinker, while Hitler was rather ignorant and kind of a ranting
ignoramus whenever he talked about "history." 

If you say "Troy was right" then you are saying that Hitler claimed the
Nazi state was a realization of Marxism and, like him, you offer no proof
other than generalities which do not bear close exmaination.  In the
U.S.,all manner of nonsense about Marx and Lenin circulate in the press
and schools without being contested, so many come to "know" what Marx and
lenin did and said without actually having to read them ore hear from
Marxists and Marxist-leninists. 



hh
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