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George Orwell reviewed Hitler’s Mein Kampf in March 1940<\/a>. His last paragraph is particularly revealing:<\/p>\n

“Also he [Hitler] has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all \u2018progressive\u2019 thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain. In such a view of life there is no room, for instance, for patriotism and the military virtues. The Socialist who finds his children playing with soldiers is usually upset, but he is never able to think of a substitute for the tin soldiers; tin pacifists somehow won\u2019t do. Hitler, because in his own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don\u2019t only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life. The same is probably true of Stalin\u2019s militarised version of Socialism. All three of the great dictators have enhanced their power by imposing intolerable burdens on their peoples. Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a more grudging way, have said to people \u2018I offer you a good time,\u2019 Hitler has said to them \u2018I offer you struggle, danger and death,\u2019 and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet…..”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

David Wood suggests that society may have eliminated many of the challenges that they faced 80 years ago but this makes us even more vulnerable today. If people don’t have real struggles to overcome, or enemies to fight, they will invent them…..<\/p>\n

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George Orwell reviewed Hitler’s Mein Kampf in March 1940. His last paragraph is particularly revealing: “Also he [Hitler] has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all \u2018progressive\u2019 thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain. … <\/p>\n

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