• betelgeuse [comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    People don't realize that Mein Kampf is a really dense text, you have to make annotations and take notes.

    • jackmarxist [any]
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      11 months ago

      When I read it, it just felt like ramblings of an madman. Kind of like the shit basement dwellers who've not gone outside for a decade would write.

      • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
        hexagon
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        11 months ago

        This is what I've heard and I find the idea of treating it like a Wittgenstein text and extracting every coherent thought you can from it incredibly funny.

        • pooh [she/her, any]
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          edit-2
          11 months ago

          Yeah it’s basically a big long unhinged rant. Sort of like an early 20th century German version of some chud wearing Oakleys and sitting in his truck making a 3 hour long video about god knows what.

        • 🏳️‍⚧️ 新星 [she/they]@lemmygrad.ml
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          11 months ago

          To be fair, it does explain Jean Paul Sartre’s strange response of “Radical Freedom!” to the text — he thought it was just Wittgenstein

          Obligatory Existential Comic: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/393

        • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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          11 months ago

          Have a quick look through. It doesn't take long to realise it's mostly babble. Or to realise that modern politicians sound almost identical.

    • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      It is so bad it's kind of laughable. And then you realize people took that shit seriously.