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I propose a secondary meaning for RTFM, Read The Fucking Marx (lemmy.ml)

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[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

You should unironically read Mein Kampf though, at least once. And a few other Fascist things, like The Coming American Fascism, anything by Aleksandr Dugin, and some good ol’ Fascist esoterica (Julian Evola is a good place to start), and so on.

You can never know and understand too much. Like, what Fascists think, how they come to believe and defend their conclusions, and so on.

Because they’re running things right now.

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

You should unironically read Mein Kampf though, at least once

The funny thing about that book is if you tell a neo-Nazi you've read it and have a criticism, they'll immediately ask which translation and claim most of them are a "Jewish trick".

Olivier Mannoni, who translated the 2021 French critical edition, said about the original German text that it was "An incoherent soup, one could become half-mad translating it", and said that previous translations had corrected the language, giving the false impression that Hitler was a "cultured man" with "coherent and grammatically correct reasoning". He added "To me, making this text elegant is a crime." [snip]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf#Criticism_by_translators

[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago

previous translations had corrected the language, giving the false impression that Hitler was a “cultured man” with “coherent and gramatically correct reasoning”.

Very interesting. That’s exactly what the media (even the traditional “liberal” media) does with Trump’s ramblings.

Today we call that “sane-washing.” And yes, it is a crime against humanity, and one we don’t complain about nearly enough.

Anyway, apparently I need to look into which translation I read.

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago

Evola is kinda fun, for how utterly batshit he was. He called himself a Super-Fascist, and would go on walks during bombing raids to, "test his fate". Like, buddy, your fate could be a lot different of you stayed the fuck inside?!

The bombs didn't kill him, sadly.