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The problem with Hitler was not that people mistakenly voted for him but that Germany's democratic system was primed to produce a Hitler.https://twitter.com/ContraPoints/status/823297931788898304 …
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Do not allow the victory of far-right ideology to strike you as spontaneous. It is baked right into liberal capitalist democracy.
Well, Hitler wasn't spontaneous, nor is something about capitalist democracy the best explanation. Centuries of antisemitism...
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do not dismiss Hitler's rise as simply antisemitism. That shirks the duty to understand how it was allowed to happen.
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'they just hated Jews and were angry about economics' dismisses the most important mechanisms, hidden behind easy rhetoric
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combined with humiliation of Versailles and economic ruin. The latter you could say is an inevitable effect of capitalism...
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...but without the other factors it wouldn't have happened.
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