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To: darrellmaurina
"We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions."

~ Adolph Hitler, May 1, 1927

You should be able to find the full text in the online Propaganda Archive of Calvin College.

103 posted on 04/09/2013 4:40:20 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry; dfwgator
103 posted on 4/9/2013 6:40:20 PM by RegulatorCountry: “You should be able to find the full text in the online Propaganda Archive of Calvin College.”

Considering that I'm a Calvin College graduate, I probably need to spend more time reading that archive. I've read a fair amount and quoted from it periodically on Free Republic, but I don't know it as well as I should.

One caution, however — there is a difference between the earlier Hitler who worked with the avowedly socialist leaders of the SA and the later Hitler who authorized the SS purge of the SA. The fact that Hitler was attacking capitalism in 1927 does not necessarily mean he had the same views a decade later.

My read of Hitler is that he certainly believed the state should have a strong hand in organizing all parts of society, including business life. He certainly was not any supporter of “free enterprise” as we would understand it. But on the other hand, he seems to have moved from a strong opposition to the rich elites of Germany in his earlier days to co-opting those elites once the Nazi Party became a major factor in German politics, and especially after he became Chancellor and was in charge of the government and economic policy.

105 posted on 04/09/2013 4:56:36 PM PDT by darrellmaurina
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