Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

the only remaining solution to the riddle became to an ever-increasing degree that power
which, from an entirely different viewpoint, I had come to know earlier in Vienna: the Marxist
doctrine and philosophy, and their organizational results.
For the second time I dug into this doctrine of destruction- this time no longer led by the
impressions and effects of my daily associations, but directed by the observation of general
processes of political life. I again immersed myself in the theoretical literature of this new
world, attempting to achieve clarity concerning its possible effects, and then compared it with
the actual phenomena and events it brings about in political, cultural, and economic life.
Now for the first time I turned my attention to the attempts to master this world plague.
I studied Bismarck's Socialist legislation 1 in its intention struggle, and success. Gradually I
obtained a positively granite foundation for my own conviction, so that since that time I have
never been forced to undertake a shift in my own inner view on this question. Likewise the
relation of Marxism to the Jews was submitted to further thorough examination.
Though previously in Vienna, Germany above all had seemed to me an unshakable colossus,
now anxious misgivings sometimes entered my mind. In silent solitude and in the small
circles of my acquaintance, I was filled with wrath at German foreign policy and likewise with
what seemed to me the incredibly frivolous way in which the most important problem then
existing for Germany, Marxism, was treated. It was really beyond me how people could rush
so blindly into a danger whose effects, pursuant to the Marxists' own intention, were bound
some day to be monstrous. Even then, among my acquaintance, just as today on a large
scale, I warned against the phrase with which all wretched cowards comfort themselves:
'Nothing can happen to us!' This pestilential attitude had once been the downfall of a gigantic
empire. Could anyone believe that Germany alone was not subject to exactly the same laws
as all other human organisms?
In the years 1913 and 1914, I, for the first time in various circles which today in part
faithfully support the National Socialist movement, expressed the conviction that the
question of the future of the German nation was the question of destroying Marxism.
In the catastrophic German alliance policy I saw only one of the consequences called forth by
the disruptive work of this doctrine; for the terrible part of it was that this poison almost
invisibly destroyed all the foundations of a healthy conception of economy and state, and
that often those affected by it did not themselves realize to what an extent their activities and
desires emanated from this philosophy srhich they otherwise sharply ejected.
The internal decline of the German nation had long since begun, yet, as so often in life,
people had not achieved clarity concerning the force that was destroying their existence.
Sometimes they tinkered around with the disease, but confused the forms of the
phenomenon with the virus that had caused it. Since they did not know or want to know the
cause, the struggle against Malsisrs was no better than bungling quackery.