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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 V

WORLD THEORY AND ORGANIZATION THE national State, of which I have attempted to draw a general picture, will not be brought into being by the mere knowledge of the requirements of that State. It is not enough to know what such a State ought to look like. The problem of its birth is a far more important one. We cannot wait until the present Parties, which draw their profits from the State as it is, change their attitude of their own initiative. This is all the less possible, since their real leaders are Jews, and Jews only.

The Jew pursues his object irresistibly in his dealings with the millions of German bourgeois and proletarians, who are sliding along to destruction chiefly owing to their indolence, stupidity and timidity. The Jew is fully conscious of his hnal aim. A party led by him has no choice but to fight for his interests and has nothing in common with the character of Aryan nations.

Thus, if an attempt is to be made to realize the ideal of a national State, we shall have to ignore the forces now controlling the life of the public and seek for another force, determined and able to take up the struggle for that ideal. For there is a struggle ahead of us, if our first task is not creation of a new conception of a State, but removal of the present Jewish conception.

The first weapon of a young doctrine, containing new and great principles, must, however much indivi¬ duals may dislike it, be the probe of sharp criticism.

Marxism possessed an objective and is aware of constructive ambition (even if this is merely creation of a despotism of Jewish world finance) ; but it neverthe¬ less gave itself up to shattering criticism for a whole

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