Push to Reprint Mein Kampf

ONE of the great publishing taboos of modern Germany is beginning to buckle: historians are pressing the authorities to bring out a new edition of Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic manifesto, Mein Kampf.

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I've read it. It's rather a long rant, not unlike a lot of stuff you see on the internet these days. It doesn't make sense but repeats itself as if you'll eventually forget that it doesn't make sense.

I think it's worth reading just so that people can understand the thought process that creates really sick wackos (which is, incidentally, a very common condition).

Now, after reading it I didn't turn into a Nazi. If anything, it strengthened my resolve against the ideology. In that way, it was like reading "The Communist Manifesto", which put me off Communism, or reading "The Fountainhead", which put me off both Libertarianism and modern architecture (a two-fer).

It's very counter-productive to keep books like this out of print. People need to know exactly how droolingly stupid some ancient political philosophies were - if for no other reason than they can judge their own world a bit better.

Yah! What he said.

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Well if you're gonna read Marx, go for Das Kapital, it's highly relevant as a critique of capitalism, the econimic system Rand hails as nearly flawless.