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“The people in their overwhelming majority are so feminine by nature and attitude that sober reasoning determines their thoughts and actions far less than emotion and feeling. And this sentiment is not complicated, but very simple and all of a piece. It does not have multiple shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never half this way and half that way, never partially, or that kind of thing.”

Book:The Mass Psychology of Fascism

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Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler, born on April 20, 1889, and died on April 30, 1945, was a significant political figure in German history. He served as the Chancellor and Führer of Nazi Germany, playing a decisive role in the outbreak of World War II and having a profound impact on world history during his reign. more

“Yet alongside this rebellion against the father, a respect for and acceptance of his authority continued to exist. This ambivalent attitude toward authority—rebellion against it coupled with acceptance and submission—is a basic feature of every middle-class structure from the age of puberty to full adulthood and is especially pronounced in individuals stemming from materially restricted circumstances.”

Patriarchy Authoritarianism Trumpism 1969 Authoritarian Family Lower Middle Class

Book:The Mass Psychology of Fascism

Source: The Mass Psychology of Fascism

“In terms of "quiet" bourgeois democracy two fundamental possibilities are open to the industrial worker: identification with the bourgeoisie, which holds a higher position in the social scale, or identification with his own social class, which produces its own anti-reactionary way of life. To pursue the first possibility means to envy the reactionary man, to imitate him, and, if the opportunity arises, to assimilate his habits of life. To pursue the second of these possibilities means to reject the reactionary man's ideologies and habits of life. Due to the simultaneous influence exercised by both social and class habits, these two possibilities are equally strong. The revolutionary movement also failed to appreciate the importance of the seemingly irrelevant everyday habits, indeed, very often turned them to bad account. The lower middle-class bedroom suite, which the "rabble" buys as soon as he has the means, even if he is otherwise revolutionary minded; the consequent suppression of the wife, even if he is a Communist; the "decent" suit of clothes for Sunday; "proper" dance steps and a thousand other "banalities," have an incomparably greater reactionary influence when repeated day after day than thousands of revolutionary rallies and leaflets can ever hope to counterbalance. Narrow conservative life exercises a continuous influence, penetrates every facet of everyday life; whereas factory work and revolutionary leaflets have only a brief effect.”

Propaganda Materialism Class Struggle Banality 1969 Political Influence Authoritarian Family Reactionary Politics Authoritarian Ideology Domestication Bourgeois Indulgence Lower Middle Class

Book:The Mass Psychology of Fascism

Source: The Mass Psychology of Fascism

“We must remember that the more self-centered our life is, the more prone we are to unhappiness and frustration.”

Life Remember Frustration Unhappiness Self Centered More We Must Prone

Author:Dr Prem Jagyasi

“There are no chairs or tables in my tiny room. Vera says that only savages sit down. Only a prone position is beautiful and becoming to the body. She has spread carpets on mattresses along the walls and scattered pillows over them... ("Thirty-Three Abominations")”