Nazism, Peikoff argues, was made possible by the German philosophers who advocated unreason and self-sacrifice—and whose ideas now rule American universities.
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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 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
"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 nationalists, at heart, were socialists. The socialists, at heart, were nationalists."
— LEONARD PEIKOFF @OminousParallel
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
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."
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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.
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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
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The Ayn Rand Center Groundbreaking
This month, the Ayn Rand Institute celebrated a historic milestone: the groundbreaking of the new Ayn Rand Center in Austin, Texas. @elanjourno and ARI CEO @taltsfany share footage from the ceremony and discuss the vision for this building as a lasting physical home for Rand's ideas.
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“Ayn Rand’s philosophy has changed thousands of lives, including my own, & has the power to change the course of history. ... The present book is the first comprehensive statement of her philosophy.”
ALT “Ayn Rand’s philosophy has changed thousands of lives, including my own, and has the power to change the course of history. Her views, however, are spread across more than a dozen books and hundreds of articles and speeches. The present book is the first comprehensive statement of her philosophy.” — Leonard Peikoff
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"Leonard Peikoff got it brilliantly in The Ominous Parallels fourty years ago. We're turning into Weimar America. The nationalist thugs and the Marxists thugs are fighting in the streets." youtube.com/watch?v=KI5N9bgD…
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"To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole." ~ Goebbels, National Socialist. "No one can claim they did not sacrifice enough individuals." ~ Leonard Peikoff, The Ominous Parallels
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"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
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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 greatest obstacle to U.S. victory is not Iran and its allies, but our own intellectuals." - LEONARD PEIKOFF
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"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
