Can't reply (HN being silly as usual) but, regarding being scandalized at the American-capitalist essence of Nazism... I mean, didn't Hitler look to America for inspiration?
Didn't the term "Untermensch" come from "under man" in the works of Lothrop Stoddard, an American?
From Hitler’s infamous Mein Kampf [My Struggle], published in 1925:
>There is today one state in which at least weak beginnings toward a better conception [of citizenship laws] are noticeable. Of course, it is not our model German Republic, but the American Union, in which an effort is made to consult reason at least partially. By refusing immigration on principle to elements in poor health, by simply excluding certain races from naturalization, it professes in slow beginnings a view which is peculiar to the folkish state concept.
From Hitler's 1942 recollections:
>The struggle we are waging [in Crimea] against the Partisans resembles very much the struggle in North America against the Red Indians. Victory will go to the strong, and strength is on our side. At all costs we will establish law and order there. […] Saxony, for example, will enjoy an unprecedented trade boom, and we shall create for her a most profitable export market, which it will be the task of Saxon inventive genius to develop.
There's a whole book about it: Hitler's American Model.
I don't see anything wrong with the argument. A few good things are said about American efficiency, and that's what I think history will say in the end.
You can check this out, it says a few positive things about America near the end: https://redsails.org/what-is-capitalism/
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Can't reply (HN being silly as usual) but, regarding being scandalized at the American-capitalist essence of Nazism... I mean, didn't Hitler look to America for inspiration?
Didn't the term "Untermensch" come from "under man" in the works of Lothrop Stoddard, an American?
From Hitler’s infamous Mein Kampf [My Struggle], published in 1925:
>There is today one state in which at least weak beginnings toward a better conception [of citizenship laws] are noticeable. Of course, it is not our model German Republic, but the American Union, in which an effort is made to consult reason at least partially. By refusing immigration on principle to elements in poor health, by simply excluding certain races from naturalization, it professes in slow beginnings a view which is peculiar to the folkish state concept.
From Hitler's 1942 recollections:
>The struggle we are waging [in Crimea] against the Partisans resembles very much the struggle in North America against the Red Indians. Victory will go to the strong, and strength is on our side. At all costs we will establish law and order there. […] Saxony, for example, will enjoy an unprecedented trade boom, and we shall create for her a most profitable export market, which it will be the task of Saxon inventive genius to develop.
There's a whole book about it: Hitler's American Model.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172422/hi...
I don't see anything wrong with the argument. A few good things are said about American efficiency, and that's what I think history will say in the end.