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For those not too vapid or too entrenched in partisan ignorance to learn, I offer the twenty five points of the National Socialist German Workers Party. Note that these are available in many, many places.
1. We demand the union of all Germans in a Great Germany on the basis of the principle of self-determination of all peoples.
2. We demand that the German people have rights equal to those of other nations; and that the Peace Treaties of Versailles and St. Germain shall be abrogated.
3. We demand land and territory (colonies) for the maintenance of our people and the settlement of our surplus population.
4. Only those who are our fellow countrymen can become citizens. Only those who have German blood, regardless of creed, can be our countrymen. Hence no Jew can be a countryman.
5. Those who are not citizens must live in Germany as foreigners and must be subject to the law of aliens.
6. The right to choose the government and determine the laws of the State shall belong only to citizens. We therefore demand that no public office, of whatever nature, whether in the central government, the province, or the municipality, shall be held by anyone who is not a citizen.
We wage war against the corrupt parliamentary administration whereby men are appointed to posts by favor of the party without regard to character and fitness.
7. We demand that the State shall above all undertake to ensure that every citizen shall have the possibility of living decently and earning a livelihood. If it should not be possible to feed the whole population, then aliens (non-citizens) must be expelled from the Reich.
8. Any further immigration of non-Germans must be prevented. We demand that all non-Germans who have entered Germany since August 2, 1914, shall be compelled to leave the Reich immediately.
9. All citizens must possess equal rights and duties.
10. The first duty of every citizen must be to work mentally or physically. No individual shall do any work that offends against the interest of the community to the benefit of all.
Therefore we demand:
11. That all unearned income, and all income that does not arise from work, be abolished.
12. Since every war imposes on the people fearful sacrifices in blood and treasure, all personal profit arising from the war must be regarded as treason to the people. We therefore demand the total confiscation of all war profits.
13. We demand the nationalization of all trusts.
14. We demand profit-sharing in large industries.
15. We demand a generous increase in old-age pensions.
16. We demand the creation and maintenance of a sound middle-class, the immediate communalization of large stores which will be rented cheaply to small tradespeople, and the strongest consideration must be given to ensure that small traders shall deliver the supplies needed by the State, the provinces and municipalities.
17. We demand an agrarian reform in accordance with our national requirements, and the enactment of a law to expropriate the owners without compensation of any land needed for the common purpose. The abolition of ground rents, and the prohibition of all speculation in land.
18. We demand that ruthless war be waged against those who work to the injury of the common welfare. Traitors, usurers, profiteers, etc., are to be punished with death, regardless of creed or race.
19. We demand that Roman law, which serves a materialist ordering of the world, be replaced by German common law.
20. In order to make it possible for every capable and industrious German to obtain higher education, and thus the opportunity to reach into positions of leadership, the State must assume the responsibility of organizing thoroughly the entire cultural system of the people. The curricula of all educational establishments shall be adapted to practical life. The conception of the State Idea (science of citizenship) must be taught in the schools from the very beginning. We demand that specially talented children of poor parents, whatever their station or occupation, be educated at the expense of the State.
21. The State has the duty to help raise the standard of national health by providing maternity welfare centers, by prohibiting juvenile labor, by increasing physical fitness through the introduction of compulsory games and gymnastics, and by the greatest possible encouragement of associations concerned with the physical education of the young.
22. We demand the abolition of the regular army and the creation of a national (folk) army.
23. We demand that there be a legal campaign against those who propagate deliberate political lies and disseminate them through the press. In order to make possible the creation of a German press, we demand:
(a) All editors and their assistants on newspapers published in the German language shall be German citizens.
(b) Non-German newspapers shall only be published with the express permission of the State. They must not be published in the German language.
(c) All financial interests in or in any way affecting German newspapers shall be forbidden to non-Germans by law, and we demand that the punishment for transgressing this law be the immediate suppression of the newspaper and the expulsion of the non-Germans from the Reich.
Newspapers transgressing against the common welfare shall be suppressed. We demand legal action against those tendencies in art and literature that have a disruptive influence upon the life of our folk, and that any organizations that offend against the foregoing demands shall be dissolved.
24. We demand freedom for all religious faiths in the state, insofar as they do not endanger its existence or offend the moral and ethical sense of the Germanic race.
The party as such represents the point of view of a positive Christianity without binding itself to any one particular confession. It fights against the Jewish materialist spirit within and without, and is convinced that a lasting recovery of our folk can only come about from within on the pinciple:
COMMON GOOD BEFORE INDIVIDUAL GOOD
25. In order to carry out this program we demand: the creation of a strong central authority in the State, the unconditional authority by the political central parliament of the whole State and all its organizations.
The formation of professional committees and of committees representing the several estates of the realm, to ensure that the laws promulgated by the central authority shall be carried out by the federal states.
The leaders of the party undertake to promote the execution of the foregoing points at all costs, if necessary at the sacrifice of their own lives.
Way before Hillary Clinton announced her war against the cult of the individual, the National Socialist German Workers Party launched their own war against the individual. As one can easily read, it's roughly half nationalist creed and half Occupy Wall Street. To understand this, one need only educate oneself as to the forces within Germany at that time. The left was ascendant, in Germany as in other Western nations. The traditional right wing party, supporting the Kaiser, was virtually gone. The two strong forces within Germany were collectivism (socialism and Communism) and nationalism. On the left, the National Socialist German Workers Party competed with several groups, notably the Communists (who owed fealty to Moscow and aimed for one worldwide Communist government) and the SDP or Socialist Workers Party of Germany. The SDP was the amalgam of the General German Workers Association (Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein or ADAV) and the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei or SDAP), and the same 1875 conference that produced the merger produced the famous Gotha Program. (If one wishes to truly understand the political landscape of the time of Hitler's rise, one should research not only the Gotha Project but also Marx's criticisms of it and the more Marxist Erfurt Program into which the Gotha Project evolved.) By the establishment of the National Socialist German Workers Party circa 1920, socialism was THE dominant political philosophy in Germany as workers demanded abolition of the old class system and financial domination of the many by the few. The main differentiation was that the Socialist Workers Party of Germany and National Socialist German Workers Party were strongly centered on a Germans-first policy, whereas the Communists were centered on Moscow (by Hitler's time the center of Marxist philosophy) and one-world Communism or socialism (such as the International Workingmen's Association) and the Assembly of German Worker Associations (Verband Deutscher Arbeiterverein or VDAV) was apolitical. Right wing philosophy had most died out with the Kaiser's abdication (which in fact a member of the SPD, Social Democrat Philipp Scheidemann, had engineered by the simple fact of announcing that the Kaiser had abdicated before he had in fact agreed to do so - although I believe Prince Maximilian von Baden had already promised the Allies the abdication as a condition of a cease-fire. I'd have to look up who announced it first.) Regardless, Germany experienced a left wing revolution much as did Russia. The abdication pretty much destroyed the royalists, already a party and a philosophy very much in the minority. During the Wiemar Republic, conservatives were very much a minority, but were represented by four conservative parties (the German National People's Party or DNVP, the People's Right Party or VRP, the Christian Social People's Service or CSVD, and the Conservative People's Party or KVP) as well as by several agrarian-based parties. There were also several explicitly liberal (as in Western Liberalism, not socialism) parties and a Catholic Party. Monty Python's sketch is no doubt based on the plethora of political parties with very similar and almost interchangeable names which prospered during the Weimar Republic.
Even though the SDP party was officially banned, its members dominated the Landtag by the twenties. As socialism was by far the dominant political philosophy of the time, the SPD was the Nazis' primary opposition. What put Hitler on top was not his philosophy, but his prescience in forecasting economic doom. Germany was quite prosperous in the twenties, but on borrowed money, mostly from the United States. When Wall Street crashed, cash-strapped American financiers stopped reissuing loans to Germany and indeed, called many loans short, either because they desperately needed the cash or because they feared if they didn't take lesser payment then, they might not receive anything when the notes were actually due. Germany's economy crashed; unemployment soared, the value of labor plummeted, wages and hours dropped, tariffs were reinstated to protect domestic producers, prices increased . . . As Hitler had long been forecasting economic disaster from capitalism (especially Jewish capitalism), he looked smart, and Germans decided that if he could predict the crash, maybe he could fix it as well. The rest is history.
All this is readily available, although one will probably have to actually read books of the time rather than checking wikipedia. The choice is yours to be educated or be willfully, simplistically and comfortably stupid. Choose wisely.
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