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[–]MarkimusNational Socialist 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No but CT used them as sources for his video 'The Nazi Economy' so they . Here's a full list of books I've been told are good by someone (he runs this site) extremely well read on NS stuff:

  • Adam Tooze: Wages of Destruction

  • Guillebaud: The Economic Recovery Of Germany 1933-1938

  • Guillebaud: Social Policy Of Nazi Germany

  • Avraham Barkai: Nazi Economics: Ideology, Theory, and Policy

  • Noakes & Pridham: Nazism 1919-1945, vol. 2: State, Economy, and Society

  • J.E. Farquharson: The Plough and the Swastika: The NSDAP and Agriculture in Germany, 1928-45

  • R.J. Overy: The Nazi Economic Recovery: 1932-1938

  • Henry Ashby Turner, Jr: Big Business and the Rise of Hitler

[–]LookAtThatNose 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Hitler's Revolution is a fantastic book. Highly recommend. You can easily quote from it to btfo the 'Nazis are the real communists' boomer tier people who spread the 'Commies and Nazis are the same' memes. Here's an example from the book:

Well before taking power, Hitler combated a tendency toward Marxist socialism in his own movement. In November 1925, district party leaders in Hannover proposed dividing large farms and distributing the land among farmhands. The state would require everyone employed in the agrarian economy to join a cooperative. Independent sale of foodstuffs would be illegal. “Critical industries” such as power companies, banks and armaments manufacturers were to yield 51 percent of the shares as “property of the nation,” in other words become state controlled. The program also recommended that the government acquire 49 percent of other large business enterprises. In May 1930, Hitler met with a Berlin subordinate, Otto Strasser, who supported a similar program. Hitler told him his ideas were “pure Marxism” and would wreck the entire economy.73 He bounced Strasser out of the party that July, underscoring his intolerance of Marxist socialism. Hitler considered the opportunity to acquire wealth and property an incentive for “eternal, enterprising personal initiative. Enabling talented individuals to realize their full potential in life also elevated the society they belong to and serve"

[–]send_nasty_stuffNational Socialist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing. This book in on my reading list now for sure.

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Read Carl Schmitt.

[–]Nombre27 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Which one? Concept of the Political?

Care to provide any summary or review of his works that you've read?

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Concept of the Political?

Yes.

Care to provide any summary or review of his works that you've read?

This is a great discussion on it: https://www.counter-currents.com/2020/07/video-of-the-day-greg-johnson-frodi-midjord-on-the-concept-of-the-political/.

[–]ChancellorMershekel 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The first time I looked into Schmitt I came across this, which I thought was a well-written article, also by Johnson and published on his Counter-Currents site. It might be a good place for newcomers to start on Schmitt's ideas, particularly because Johnson writes in a way that shows their relevance to our situation:

https://www.counter-currents.com/2011/02/reflections-on-carl-schmitts-the-concept-of-the-political/

De Benoist's 'Carl Schmitt Today' might not be a bad starting point, either. I found it to be a well referenced work, though a bit drily written. It has its moments—De Benoist gets stuck into some of the Leftist 'neocons are Nazis' nonsense early on.

Basically:

  • Carl Schmitt taught the Jewish philosopher Leo Strauss. They shared letters for a few more years afterwards. For a short time Schmitt was also in the NSDAP.

  • Strauss eventually got to America after Schmitt helped him escape to Britain, there he taught philosophy to some Jews who became 'neocons' (like Wolfowitz).

  • These students of Strauss worked for the Bush Administration.

Conclusion: Therefore the Bush Administration are Nazis.

A hilariously idiotic argument even for an argumentum ad hitlerum (a term coined by Strauss himself, incidentally).

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

a term coined by Strauss himself, incidentally

I didn't know that.

[–]Nombre27 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Cool. I'll check it out, thank you.

[–]send_nasty_stuffNational Socialist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I have not. I've heard good things about wages of destruction though.

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

No but I plan to get Hitler's Revolution. Strike and Mike did a big review the other day and it sounded very interesting.

[–]Mr_Tee[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for telling me!

[–]cisheteroscumWhite Nationalist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Read Culture of Critique by MacDonald

I'm about halfways through my copy. At this point it's just preaching to the choir though. Came to my conclusions already through enough exposure. He puts everything very succinctly tho

[–]VarangianRasputin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The Fourth Political Theory by Alexander Dugin and For My Legionaries by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu are two of my favourites, and have had a pretty big influence on me.

[–]HellusENG 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've read Wages of destruction and it was a pretty good book, ofc there's some propaganda in aswell, but it was a pretty good read