Adolf Hitler revealed the origins of his preferred method for influencing public opinion. “I’ve learned a lot from Marxism,” Hitler said, adding: Fundamentally, these new means of political struggle can be traced back to the Marxists. I only needed to adopt and further develop them, and I essentially had what we needed. I just had to continue, with greater resolve, where the Social Democrats had failed ten times over because they insisted on trying to achieve their revolution within the framework of democracy. National Socialism is what Marxism could have been if it had freed itself from its
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