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Adolf Hitler presents an autobiographical account of his life and the development of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. He outlines the foundational principles and aims of the movement while addressing his personal history and political objectives.

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Chapter IV

The political life of to-day alone has persistently turned its back on this principle of Nature. Whilst all human civilization is but the outcome of the creative force of personality, in the community as a whole, and especially amongst its leaders, the principle of the dignity of the majority makes a pretence of being the deciding authority, and it is beginning gradually to poison all life below it—and, in fact, to break it up. The destructive workings of Judaism in various parts of the nation can at bottom only be ascribed to the perpetual effort to undermine the importance of per¬ sonality throughout the nations who are their hosts, and to substitute the will of the multitude.

We now see that Marxism is the enunciated form of the Jewish attempt to abolish the importance of per¬ sonality in all departments of human life and to set the mass of numbers in its place. In politics the Parliamentary form of government is its expression, and that is what is working such mischief, from the smallest parish council up to the power controlling the entire Reich.

Marxism has never been able to found a culture or create an economic system by itself, but, moreover, it has never really been in a position to carry on an existing system in accordance with its own principles. But, after a very short time, it was forced to retrace its steps and grant concessions to the theory of the principle of personality ; even in its own organization it is unable to deny that principle.

The national theory of the world must therefore be completely differentiated from the Marxist theory ; it must pin its faith on race, and on the importance of personality also, and make them the pillars supporting the whole of its edifice. These are the basic factors of its view of the world.

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