Book shows how unreason & collectivism led the seemingly civilized German society to become a Nazi regime. #philosophy of #history #aynrand #objectivism
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The Cause of Hitler's Germany by Leonard Peikoff retweeted
"SOCIALISM" for the Nazis denotes the principle of COLLECTIVISM as such and its corollary, STATISM—in every field of human action, including but not limited to economics.
"To be a socialist," says Goebbels, "is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole."
— Leonard Peikoff,
THE OMINOUS PARALLELS @OminousParallel
"The nationalists, at heart, were socialists. The socialists, at heart, were nationalists."
— LEONARD PEIKOFF @OminousParallel
The Cause of Hitler's Germany by Leonard Peikoff retweeted
COUP D’ÉCOLE
"From Plato to the present, it has been the dream of social planners to...inject a controversial ideology directly into the plastic, unformed minds of children—by means of seizing a country’s educational system & turning it into a vehicle for indoctrination."
The Cause of Hitler's Germany by Leonard Peikoff retweeted
"The process of spreading a philosophy by means of free discussion among thinking adults is long and complex. From Plato to the present, it has been the dream of social planners to circumvent this process and, instead, to inject a controversial ideology directly into the plastic, unformed minds of children—by means of seizing a country’s educational system and turning it into a vehicle for indoctrination. In this way one may capture an entire generation without intellectual resistance, in a single coup d’école."
— Leonard Peikoff, @OminousParallel
The Cause of Hitler's Germany by Leonard Peikoff retweeted
"STATISM and the advocacy of REASON are philosophical opposites. They cannot coexist—neither in a philosophic system nor in a nation."
— Leonard Peikoff, The Ominous Parallels
The Cause of Hitler's Germany by Leonard Peikoff retweeted
“STATISM” means any system that concentrates power in the state at the expense of individual freedom. Among other variants, the term subsumes theocracy, absolute monarchy, nazism, fascism, communism, democratic socialism, and plain, unadorned dictatorship. —LEONARD PEIKOFF, OPAR
SOCIALISM IS NEVER DEMOCRATIC BUT ALWAYS TOTALITARIAN
"SOCIALISM cannot be ruled for very long except by TERROR."
"As soon as the terror is relaxed, resentment and hostility logically begin to well up against the rulers. The stage is thus set for a revolution or civil war. In fact, in the absence of terror, or, more correctly, a sufficient degree of terror, socialism would be characterized by an endless series of revolutions and civil wars, as each new group of rulers proved as incapable of making socialism function successfully as its predecessors before it."
"The inescapable inference to be drawn is that the terror actually experienced in the socialist countries was not simply the work of evil men, such as STALIN, but springs from the NATURE OF THE SOCIALIST SYSTEM. Stalin could come to the fore because his unusual willingness and cunning in the use of terror were the specific characteristics most required by a ruler of socialism in order to remain in power. He rose to the top by a process of socialist natural selection: the SELECTION OF THE WORST." — @GGReisman
The Cause of Hitler's Germany by Leonard Peikoff retweeted
Almost everyone acknowledges that Nazism was one of the greatest horrors of the 20th century, yet few understand its deepest cause.
How did a supposedly civilized country— the “land of poets and philosophers”—degenerate into a murderous, totalitarian dictatorship?
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The Cause of Hitler's Germany by Leonard Peikoff retweeted
THE ROOTS OF NAZISM
To this day, Nazism remains vivid in the public mind as the greatest evil in human history, and continues to be the subject or background of countless novels, films, and non-fiction analyses. But the artists and scholars of 2014 still have no real explanation; they are no closer than they were in 1982 to identifying the fundamental roots of Nazism.
This book does.
Those interested in the roots of Hitler's NATIONAL SOCIALISM should read THE OMINOUS CAUSE OF HITLERS GERMANY by Leonard Peikoff.
@CauseHitler
WHY NAZISM WAS SOCIALISM
"The basis of the claim that Nazi Germany was capitalist was the fact that most industries in Nazi Germany APPEARED to be left in private hands."
"What Ludwig Von Mises identified was that private ownership of the means of production existed in NAME only under the Nazis and that the ACTUAL substance of ownership of the means of production resided in the German government. For it was the German government and not the NOMINAL private owners that exercised all of the SUBSTANTIVE powers of ownership: it, not the nominal private owners, decided what was to be produced, in what quantity, by what methods, and to whom it was to be distributed, as well as what prices would be charged and what wages would be paid, and what dividends or other income the nominal private owners would be permitted to receive." — @GGReisman
The Cause of Hitler's Germany by Leonard Peikoff retweeted
In The Cause of Hitler’s Germany—previously published as part of his 1982 book The Ominous Parallels—Leonard Peikoff, Ayn Rand’s long-time associate, demonstrates how unreason and collectivism led the seemingly civilized German society to become a Nazi regime.
The Cause of Hitler's Germany by Leonard Peikoff retweeted
"While today’s philosophy departments make it a loud point to proclaim that philosophy has nothing to do with practical life or with reality…—Dr. Peikoff shows to their mangled victims what philosophy is, what it does, and how to recognize its influence all around us." —AYN RAND
The Cause of Hitler's Germany by Leonard Peikoff retweeted
"After the Democrats are through with America, America will be through. We will end like ancient Rome. The post-American era will be Dark Ages 2.0."
— LEONARD PEIKOFF
Author of OBJECTIVISM: THE PHILOSOPHY OF AYN RAND and THE OMINOUS PARALLELS: THE END OF FREEDOM IN AMERICA
ALT THE OMINOUS PARALLES: THE END OF FREEDOM IN AMERICA
The Cause of Hitler's Germany by Leonard Peikoff retweeted
"The genius of the Founding Fathers was their ability not only to grasp the revolutionary ideas of the period, but to devise a means of implementing those ideas in practice."—Leonard Peikoff, The Ominous Parallels
The Cause of Hitler's Germany by Leonard Peikoff retweeted
Today's NAZIs come out of the Ivy League as predicted in Objectivist Leonard Peikoff's 1970s philosophical thriller, THE OMINOUS PARALLELS: THE END OF FREEDOM IN AMERICA.
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The Cause of Hitler's Germany by Leonard Peikoff retweeted
"Philosophy is a human need as real as the need of food. It is a need of the mind, without which man cannot obtain his food or anything else his life requires."
— LEONARD PEIKOFF, @OPARAynRand
The Cause of Hitler's Germany by Leonard Peikoff retweeted
If you ever wondered how the Nazis went from rioting Brownshirts in the streets in 1938 to wielding state power to implement the Holocaust in 1941, you're seeing it now. When officials do not enforce laws against assault, harassment, property destruction, etc, the nihilists win.
No anti riot police were dispatched.
No arrests were made.
No repercussions.
This is YOUR failure @PhillyMayor
The Cause of Hitler's Germany by Leonard Peikoff retweeted
"I believe that totalitarianism in the form of some kind of national socialism is on its way. That the Democrats are pushing for it and the Republicans are impotent - they're not strong enough - they don't fight it the right way."
— Leonard Peikoff, 2022
Author of THE OMINOUS PARALLELS
capitalismmagazine.com/2022/…
The Cause of Hitler's Germany by Leonard Peikoff retweeted
"There was no 'I' in North Korea--only 'we."
@YeonmiParkNK showing off her signed copy of Leonard @Peikoff's "The Ominous Parallels: End of Freedom in America" #ocon2023 #aynrand
The Cause of Hitler's Germany by Leonard Peikoff retweeted
LEONARD PEIKOFF ON WHY DEMOCRATS SUPPORT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
In his latest opinion editorial, Leonard Peikoff, author of THE OMINOUS PARALLELS, explains why the Democratic Party under Biden opened the US border to any and all migrants, and why under Trump, they are fighting to keep illegal migrants in the US.
The Campaign Against ICE
The foremost authority on Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism, Leonard Peikoff, offers his observations on the partisan campaign of violence against U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE).
capitalismmagazine.com/2026/… #immigration #ICE
The Cause of Hitler's Germany by Leonard Peikoff retweeted
WHY STUDY AYN RAND'S PHILOSOPHY: OBJECTIVISM
Whether you are a scientist seeking to ground the principles of physics in reality,
The Cause of Hitler's Germany by Leonard Peikoff retweeted
“Until or unless I write a comprehensive treatise on my philosophy, Dr. Peikoff’s course is the only authorized presentation of the entire theoretical structure of Objectivism, i.e., the only one that I know of my own knowledge to be fully accurate.”
— Ayn Rand
