Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

energetic elements. The overrefinements of so-called culture had not yet exerted their
disintegrating and destructive effects. The broad mass of the new class was not yet infected
with the poison of pacifist weakness; it was robust and if necessary even brutal.
While the bourgeoisie is not at all concerned about this all-important question, but
indifferently lets things slide, the Jew seizes the unlimited opportunity it offers for the future;
while on the one hand he organizes capitalistic methods of human exploitation to their
ultimate consequence, he approaches the very victims of his spirit and his activity and in a
short time becomes the leader of their struggle against himself. 'Against himself' is only
figuratively speaking; for the great master of lies understands as always how to make himself
appear to be the pure one and to load the blame on others. Since he has th gall to lead the
masses, it never even enters their heads that this might be the most in
famous betrayal of all times.
And yet it was.
Scarcely has the new class grown out of the general economic shift than the Jew, clearly and
distinctly, realizes that it can open the way for his own further advancement. First, he used
the bourgeoisie as a battering-ram against the feudal world, then the worker against the
bourgeois world. If formerly he knew how to swindle his way to civil rights in the shadow of
the bourgeoisie, now he hopes to find the road to his own domination in the worker's struggle
for existence.
From now on the worker has no other task but to fight for the future of the Jewish people.
Unconsciously he is harnessed to the service of the power which he thinks he is combating.
He is seemingly allowed to attack capital, and this is the easiest way of making him fight for
it. In this the Jew keeps up an outcry against international capital and in truth he means the
national economy which must be demolished in order that the international stock exchange
can triumph over its dead body.
Here the Jew's procedure is as follows:
He approaches the worker, simulates pity with his fate, or even indignation at his lot of
misery and poverty, thus gaining his confidence. He takes pains to study all the various real
or imaginary hardships of his life-and to arouse his longing for a change in such an
existence. With infinite shrewdness he fans the need for social justice, somehow slumbering
in every Aryan man, into hatred against those who have been better favored by fortune, and
thus gives the struggle for the elimination of social evils a very definite philosophical stamp.
He establishes the Marxist doctrine.
By presenting it as inseparably bound up with a number of socially just demands, he
promotes its spread and conversely the aversion of decent people to fulfill demands which,
advanced in such form and company, seem from the outset unjust and impossible to fulfill.
For under this cloak of purely social ideas truly diabolic purposes are hidden, yes, they are
publicly proclaimed with the most insolent frankness. This theory represents an inseparable
mixture of reason and human madness, but always in such a way that only the lunacy can
become reality and never the reason. By the categorical rejection of the personality and hence
of the nation and its racial content, it destroys the elementary foundations of all human
culture which is dependent on just these factors. This is the true inner kernel of the Marxist
philosophy in so far as this figment of a criminal brain can be designated as a 'philosophy.'
With the shattering of the personality and the race, the essential obstacle is removed to the
domination of the inferior being-and this is the Jew.
Precisely in political and economic madness lies the sense of this doctrine. For this prevents
all truly intelligent people from entering its service, while those who are intellectually less
active and poorly educated in economics hasten to it with flying colors. The intellectuals for
this movement-for even this movement needs intellectuals for its existence-are ' sacrificed '
by the Jew from his own ranks.