The Cause of Hitler's Germany by Leonard Peikoff

Book shows how unreason & collectivism led the seemingly civilized German society to become a Nazi regime.

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Leonard Peikoff “shows that a nation brought up to regard the principles of duty and self-sacrifice as cardinal virtues will be helpless when confronted by a gang of thugs who demand obedience and self-sacrifice.” — AYN RAND

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"Philosophy is a human need as real as the need of food. It is a need of the mind, without which man cannot obtain his food or anything else his life requires."

— LEONARD PEIKOFF, @OPARAynRand

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"It is wrong, Marx writes, to 'postulate an abstract—isolated—human individual.' 'My own existence is a social activity. For this reason, what I myself produce I produce for society, and with the consciousness of acting as a social being.'" — LEONARD PEIKOFF

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"Professor L. G. Tirala, a philosophically trained Nazi ideologist, sees beyond the obvious romanticist sources of this attitude. He traces the Nazi activism to the two-world philosophy of Kant (which in turn he ascribes to Kant’s “Aryan” nature).Kant’s view, he writes, is…"

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If you ever wondered how the Nazis went from rioting Brownshirts in the streets in 1938 to wielding state power to implement the Holocaust in 1941, you're seeing it now. When officials do not enforce laws against assault, harassment, property destruction, etc, the nihilists win.

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"The genius of the Founding Fathers was their ability not only to grasp the revolutionary ideas of the period, but to devise a means of implementing those ideas in practice."—Leonard Peikoff, The Ominous Parallels

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"I believe that totalitarianism in the form of some kind of national socialism is on its way. That the Democrats are pushing for it and the Republicans are impotent - they're not strong enough - they don't fight it the right way."

— Leonard Peikoff, 2022
Author of THE OMINOUS PARALLELS

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"There was no 'I' in North Korea--only 'we."

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"After the Democrats are through with America, America will be through. We will end like ancient Rome. The post-American era will be Dark Ages 2.0."

— LEONARD PEIKOFF

Author of OBJECTIVISM: THE PHILOSOPHY OF AYN RAND and THE OMINOUS PARALLELS: THE END OF FREEDOM IN AMERICA

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Today's NAZIs come out of the Ivy League as predicted in Objectivist Leonard Peikoff's 1970s philosophical thriller, THE OMINOUS PARALLELS: THE END OF FREEDOM IN AMERICA.

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In any process of cognition, according to Kant, whether it be sense experience or abstract thought, the mind automatically alters and distorts the evidence confronting it.

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"KANT is the first philosopher of self-sacrifice to advance this ethics as a matter of philosophic principle, explicit, self- conscious, uncompromised—essentially uncontradicted by any remnants of the Greek, pro-self viewpoint…."

— LEONARD PEIKOFF

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LEONARD PEIKOFF ON WHY DEMOCRATS SUPPORT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

In his latest opinion editorial, Leonard Peikoff, author of THE OMINOUS PARALLELS, explains why the Democratic Party under Biden opened the US border to any and all migrants, and why under Trump, they are fighting to keep illegal migrants in the US.

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* Testimonial from the previously published "The Ominous Parallels."

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“A fascinating weave of German history, philosophic determinism, and Objectivist polemic.” — CHICAGO TRIBUNE

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WHY STUDY AYN RAND'S PHILOSOPHY: OBJECTIVISM

Whether you are a scientist seeking to ground the principles of physics in reality,

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"I believe that totalitarianism in the form of national socialism is on its way. That @TheDemocrats are pushing for it and the Republicans are impotent - not strong enough - they don't fight it the right way." @Peikoff

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... authority above rights,
the group above the individual,
sacrifice above happiness,
nihilism above morality,
feelings above facts,
pliability above absolutes,
obedience above logic,
the Führer above the self—and they applied it. @Peikoff

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The Nazis preached a certain philosophy—and they carried it out in action.

They preached ...