Hitler, Adolf - Mein Kampf - The New Ford Translation by Hitler Adolf

Author:Hitler, Adolf [Hitler, Adolf]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

1. WORLD-CONCEPT AND PARTY

On the 24th of February, 1920, the first great public mass demonstration of our young movement took place. In the Banquet Hall of the Munich Hofbräuhaus (an extension of the famous beer maker Hofbräu brewery), the twenty-five points of our program were presented to a crowd of almost two thousand and every single point was received with enthusiasm.

We finally had an opportunity to make the first principles clear and explained our plan for action that would lead our struggle to clear away the chaos of traditional views and ideas and the vague even harmful aims that were ever present. A new force had appeared to split the corrupt and cowardly privileged-class world and this force would shatter the Marxists’ wave of conquest. This new movement would ride the chariot of Fate in front of the Marxists’ march to triumph and halt it at the last moment, before it reached its goal.

It was obvious that the new movement’s only hope to achieve the necessary significance and the required strength for the gigantic struggle ahead was if it succeeded from the beginning in filling the hearts of its followers with the sacred conviction that we were not simply spouting a new election slogan into the political arena, but this new movement was placing a new World-Concept , one of great importance, in front of the people. Think about how pitiful the programs of these other so-called “party platforms” are. They are usually stuck together and shined up or reshaped from time to time, but one platform is basically the same as the next. To understand them, we must look at the motives which drive their construction. These motives, especially of the privileged-class “platform committees”, must be put under the microscope so we can truly understand and judge how valuable these outrageous beliefs they call platforms are.

There is only one reason which leads to the re-writing of party platforms or the modification of existing ones: the concern over who will win the next election. Whenever it begins to dawn on these parliamentary craftsmen that the good old common people are about to abandon the party and slip out of the harness of the old party bandwagon, the leaders repaint the bandwagon’s wheels. Then, come the so-called “experienced” and “shrewd”, usually old, parliamentarians. These are the star-gazers, the party astrologers, who can recall a similar crisis, in their “long political apprenticeship”, when the people’s patience ended and mass defections loomed. They feel the same kind of calamity drawing dangerously near. So, they resort to the standard formulas: form a “committee”, listen to what the good old common people are saying, sniff at the newspapers and gradually smell out what the common people want, what they hate, and what they hope for. Every trade and business group and every class of employee is carefully studied as its most secret wishes are examined. Even the “empty catchwords”, which are used by the now dangerous opposition, are suddenly reexamined. Frequently, to the surprise of

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