In Arab countries Hitler is really big, his book is the number 2 book translated in to their lang.
James Patterson: Oh, yeah. We’ll see how long that record stands.
(425 million copies sold as of this year.)
Ideas have consequences far and wide. Marx, Lenin, Hitler have an awful lot of blood on their hands. 100+ million in the 20th century alone. And that isn’t even counting the Wars.
Mao and the Chinese communists loved to read Marx, probably required for everybody at one point. Communist revolutions in Yugoslavia, Cuba, Vietnam etc. Pol Pot was “groomed” and attended fine universities in France before returning to Cambodia and setting about killing off about 20% of the population. Somebody once observed there are basically only two types of political systems - “Leave me alone” or “Give me all your stuff”. Everything is just a variation of that.