Three Books that are Relevant to 2025

[jack45luis]

My three favorite Politics books are:
"Who Financed Hitler" By James Pool
"The Arms of Krupp" by William Manchester
and
"The True Believer" by Eric Hoffer
The first two discuss the reasons for promoting Dipshits for "Dear Leaders" and the third forwhy MAGAts follow the Fat Felonious Would-be Fascist who let Musk buy the election for him.

Also a little known book from the inter-war period that was the first published mention of the possibility of Atomic weapons!
"The Riddle of the Rhine: Chemical Strategy in Peace and War" is a book by Victor Lefebure, a French chemical liaison officer during World War I.

 

[Politruk]

The True Believer:

Part 1. The Appeal of Mass Movements​

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Hoffer states that mass movements begin with a widespread "desire for change" from discontented people who place their locus of control outside their power and who also have no confidence in existing culture or traditions. Feeling their lives are "irredeemably spoiled" and believing there is no hope for advancement or satisfaction as an individual, true believers seek "self-renunciation".[3] Thus, such people are ripe to participate in a movement that offers the option of subsuming their individual lives in a larger collective. Leaders are vital in the growth of a mass movement, as outlined below, but for the leader to find any success, the seeds of the mass movement must already exist in people's hearts.

While mass movements are usually some blend of nationalist, political and religious ideas, Hoffer argues there are two important commonalities: "All mass movements are competitive" and perceive the supply of converts as zero-sum; and "all mass movements are interchangeable".[4] As examples of the interchangeable nature of mass movements, Hoffer cites how almost 2000 years ago Saul, a fanatical opponent of Christianity, became Paul, a fanatical apologist and promoter of Christianity.[2] Another example occurred in Germany during the 1920s and the 1930s, when Communists and Fascists were ostensibly bitter enemies but in fact competed for the same type of angry, marginalized people; Nazis Adolf Hitler and Ernst Röhm, and Communist Karl Radek, all boasted of their prowess in converting their rivals.[2]

Part 2. The Potential Converts​

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The "New Poor" are the most likely source of converts for mass movements, for they recall their former wealth with resentment and blame others for their current misfortune. Examples include the mass evictions of relatively prosperous tenants during the English Civil War of the 1600s or the middle- and working-classes in Germany who passionately supported Hitler in the 1930s after suffering years of economic hardship. In contrast, the "abjectly poor" on the verge of starvation make unlikely true believers as their daily struggle for existence takes pre-eminence over any other concern.[5]

 

[Politruk]

My three favorite Politics books are:
"Who Financed Hitler" By James Pool

Who financed Trump? If it was the Wall Street guys, they sure must be regretting it now!

 

[jack45luis]

Who financed Trump? If it was the Wall Street guys, they sure must be regretting it now!

I heard it was Elon who wanted to control the agencies that were investigating him for "Shanagins"

 

[Politruk]

I heard it was Elon who wanted to control the agencies that were investigating him for "Shanagins"

And now he's already getting tired of it.