I've been reading Mein Kampf and I wanted to make a thread about it, posting excerpts I think are interesting or relevant along with a little commentary.
Maybe it's interesting for people who haven't read it, or maybe people who know more about this can intervene and discuss too

I don't consider myself a national socialist, at least in the German sense, but of course it's an important ideology for us in RW Twitter and a likewise relevant book. I agree with many of their ideas and would like to learn more about them.

The most common criticism of this book that I've read is that its style is incoherent, rambling, and repetitive.
There is a small truth to this, but it's exaggerated. AH himself says that he values good oratory over good writing, and it's a good read overall. Plenty of variety.

It only gets dry when he talks extensively about details that are very specific to a particular time and place, and gets a bit repetitive when talking about political ideas to get his point through, like a teacher.
The funniest thing is the way he casually insults his opponents.

Anyway I'll start. This is not meant to be a summary, just posting
certain paragraphs or pages. I read it in Spanish but this thread is in English for more reach.

In the 1st chapter AH talks about his early life and the situation of the country and common folk in everyday life.

For anyone reading, tell me if the excerpts are hard to read or badly cropped, it's the first time I do one of these threads.

Here AH complains how his father wanted him to be a civil servant like himself, and he was revolted at the very idea.

The difference between the faux patriotism ("dynastic" in that time) imposed from above and sometimes even intended to inflate meaningless conflict between peoples, and real nationalism born of the love of one's people.

AH hated the status quo of the artificial separation between Austria and Germany and saw the Austrohungarian empire and the Habsburgs at the top as a tool for the slavization (and thus degeneration) of the German peoples.

He echoes a familiar sentiment between nationalists here.

From a tender age AH started going to the opera and he loved Wagner's creations, which in turn made him even more disgusted at the idea of becoming a civil servant.

Chapter I ends with first his father's, then his mother's death, this latter one especially hard for AH. He goes to live to Wien with nothing but a suitcase with clothes.

Chapter II, his life in Wien. He talks about his artistic studies and how he wanted to become an architect.

IT BEGINS

He talks long about his time of misery in Wien, how he learned a lot both thanks to books and to life practically in the streets and the dynamics between the working classes and the petite bourgeois.

On the importance of understanding first hand the experience of the downtrodden instead of viewing it from above, detached.

AH hated the Big City.

It really is too long to post because he goes on for pages, but here's two small paragraphs detailing the miseries that workers and their families had to endure in the city.

Here comes the fascistic solution to these problems, which the leftist view considers unthinkable.
To be realistic, and realize that many of these people he wants to save are beyond saving.

Very interesting to see how this has changed. Today, rather, it is the bourgeois that claim how meaningless their nationality is, because cosmopolitanism is high status.

Continuing, AH paints the example of a kid raised in destitute conditions and how ultimately those will drag him down morally, and thus naturally make for a rebellious man who cares nothing for the Nation. And then the bourgeois have the nerve of criticizing this?

What would he think of media now?

In which AH talks about the avid reader who gets his knowledge purely from books, that is, der ewige R*dditor

He talks long about the social democrats (Marxists) and their success with the workers, and here about their propaganda and methods.

The masses are feminine and SUBMIT to power

Okay, today on AH's birthday let's keep reading some excerpts.

Remember, the bourgeoisie would be the "conservatives" of today in a sense, and social democracy more linked with Marxism (the Social Democratic Party was openly Marxist at this time).
Same tactics as today.

Fire must be fought with fire (or poison gas with poison gas as he says), appeasing and submitting like the cowardly conservatives do against the left does NOT work.

He considers the workers who fell for Marxist ideology victims, because they had to endure terrible conditions and the Marxists were the only ones who spoke in their favor.

But the Social Democratic Party cared not for the workers' welfare but for the destruction of the Nation, and whatever concession the bourgeoisie made was too little too late, which fed into the cycle

Now comes the interesting part. He says that one may only understand the real aims of Marxism by knowing the Jews. In his family home the word was never mentioned, few Jews in Linz (his school town)
He was uncomfortable at antisemitism, and only thought them different in religion

At first he preferred the more "dignified" press of Wien, compared to antisemitic tabloids, but the antigermanism of the former (praising France, criticizing the Kaiser, etc.) made him slowly drift toward smaller publications.
He was REASONED into antisemitism, like many of us.

This part in the quoted tweet also comes now
https://twitter.com/FonzarelliFash/status/1252308268908720129

DESPITE BEING 1% OF THE POPULATION

Sound familiar?

And so AH is finally and utterly knowledgeable of the JQ.

Every single time.

The part everyone enjoys and loves. Debating an honest white worker vs debating a Jew.

The masses are duped, they cannot be held responsible.

Related, it's always time to recommend the documentary "The Century of the Self", which shows how (((Freud)))'s double nephew (((Bernays))) practically invented modern propaganda. Keep an eye on the surnames while watching.

And so ends chapter 2, for when some r*tarded conservative or libertarian tells you that NS and Marxism are the same thing.