Mein Kampf and thoughts

In this excerpt from Hitler's memoir Mein Kampf, Hitler spells out his political and social ideology to his desired audience. From behind bars he writes "My struggle" as an attempted plea and call to the people. He infuses nationalistic diction into his racist arguments to ward off any discomfort the extreme statements may cause.

He compares and contrasts the differences between categories of civilizations he refers to as "culture creating," "culture bearing," and "culture destroying". The Aryan, according to Hitler, is the single-handed source of all art, science and technology and therefore is superior to all races by far. They can attribute some claim to this superiority to fertile and bountiful lands, however it is the intellect of the people and the motivation that creates their prosperity. And how could they get there without exploiting the labor that inferior races provide (unwillingly)? Hitler compares these races- ones primarily sucked into slavery- to horses. Useful, yes, when building up countries but in this day and age, obsolete.

The correlation Hitler draws between slaves and horses perfectly illustrates his extremism. How bold he can be with his language. Hitler not only claims Aryans as the only source for culture in the world, but also the source for every other race's culture too, as exemplified in the statement "the first cultures originated in those places where the Aryan, by meeting lower peoples, subdued them and made them subject to his will." Of course, Hitler could get away with such fictitious statements granted his critical audience was too base to read Mein Kampf themselves, and his intellectual audience already bolstered his movement and ideals. The common folk easily accepted these beliefs in his rallies and demonstrations, where his verbose speaking skills persuaded many.

The decline of the Aryan race, Hitler continues to explain, is solely attributed to the lower races overcoming the master-slave dynamic and rightfully taking their places in Aryan society. The infiltration led to the mixing of races and the blood lines becoming impure. It is here that we can see Hitler's connection to Social Darwanism and the genome understanding. "He became submerged in the race-mixture. he gradually lost his cultural ability more and more, till at last not only mentally but also physically he began to resemble more the subjected and aborigines than his ancestors." Hitler's interpretation of Social Darwanism is so outlandish to we who finally understand evolution and its concepts on a molecular level, yet in a society where these ideas were still thrown around and given many inferences, Hitler's connections could more easily be accepted and believed. Especially so when the people wanted very much to believe it.

Hitler then begins his rant on the Jews. He bashes them for their alleged "self-preservation" and describes them as the "so-called 'chosen people'". To be facetious, I want to know what Jewish kid bullied Hitler in primary school to make him so butt hurt about their entire race. He literally carries no justification in any way shape or form to hate on them so ferociously. And how on earth he rallied so many people to act with such a hatred I can never personally comprehend.