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'Mein Kampf' To Be Republished In Germany
Hugh Pickens writes "Jacob Heilbrunn reports in The Atlantic that Germany is taking a new step toward what is often called 'normalization' as the state of Bavaria has announced that in 2015 it will publish Hitler's Mein Kampf, banned in Germany since World War II. In announcing the publication of the book, Bavarian finance minister Markus Soeder says that he wants to contribute to the 'demystification' of it. In 2015, the Bavarian state's copyright to the book will expire and the idea is to publish a scholarly version that will help stem its appeal for commercial publishers. The book is not banned by law in Germany, but Bavaria has used ownership of the copyright to prevent publication of German editions since 1945. Copyright restrictions stop at the end of 2015, 70 years after Hitler's death. By publishing in 2015 before the expiry of the copyright, Bavaria hopes to make future German editions as 'commercially unattractive' as possible. 'We want to make clear what nonsense is in there,' says Soeder and to show 'what a worldwide catastrophe this dangerous body of thought led to.'"
Will there be a new forward by Rush Limbaugh and Michelle Malkin? :-)
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The long term damage done to the world by Marx's The Communist Manifesto and Capital probably far outweigh anything hitler wrote. Their legacy is still oppressing people today in places such as North Korea. Meanwhile Mein Kampf is now just a historical curiosity.
As cheap shots go, that's a fairly good one.
I do agree with Goldberg, though, that the Left is relatively more worrisome when it comes to fascism.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Hence, Lenin was a right wing communist, Rosa Luxemburg was left wing (Until her buddy Karl fucked up and kicked off the Spartacist Revolt, and forced her to join, resulting in the both of them being murdered by the German state, which was being run by the SPD)
Right v. left is very vague any more, but what I described above is one angle on it (and it's one I like.)
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