is adolf hitler overrated or underrated?
| i mean, the guy sure did a lot of stuff but maybe he wasn’t that smart, etc and the team carried him most of the time
i am curious
| Not as bad as Trump.
| >>1117795 correct, hitler helped the world by forcing the jews out of Germany and trump is working for the jews
| >>1117793
The focus on "Hitler" as a person is typical for the western capitalist world from conservatives to liberals for various reasons.
- The strict individualist and yet hierarchic society ideal that makes history appear as a result of acts by strong individuals.
- To distcract from political failures and faults of non-fascist/moderate pro-capitalist "bourgeois" parties.
- To obfuscate the systemic mechanisms that led to fascism/nazism.
| >>1117813
To be fair I'd like to add that even system/capitalism critical left parties including communists, socialists or social democrats have an interest in demonizing hitler as a person to distract from their political faults and failures at the time (most important the failure to form a united front against the nazis and the blindness towards the fascistoid nature of stalinism).
| - Backwarded/rightist historical reception would be explaining the nazi rise with religion/supernatural phenomenons, morale or conspiracy theories.
- Modern/leftist receptions (including marxist ones) give more weight to rational social-economic circumstances and developments.
These two are more often found outside the liberal pro-capitalist western world, but in general within in right and left leaning movements everywhere.
| >>1117793
>but maybe he wasn’t that smart
One doesn't need to be smart to become popular, especially not in times where crisis follows crisis and where people are to lazy and/or exhausted to think straight. The absence of a common greater goal, the increasing complexity of reality and social-economic division and the disappointment about the discrepancy between what is/was promised and how reality looks like makes people easy prey for very stupid ideas.
| >>ba1742
the spd killed rosa luxembourg, sold out to the bourgeois kneecapping the republic as a result, and the failure to build anything resembling legitimate institutions led hitler to walk right in and take over
take heed: the above are concrete words grounded in concrete facts, not the academia-lickspittle drivel you insist on spouting online
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