Does anyone know if the critical edition of Mein Kampf is only available in German for a reason ? (I'm not asking /pol/ because I didn't understand the second half of the book and it's been bothering me for a long time)
Because it's written in German and published in Germany? It's not rocket science, kid.
What do they mean by critical edition?
Is it censored or did they just comment certain things?
>>7612812
The critical edition has a lot of annotations and explanations. It's honestly poorly written and requires a lot of background knowledge to fully understand which is why this is published by a historical institution
>>7612812
The publishers are obligated by law to have at least five footnotes per page explaining how Hitler was evil and that everything in the book is a lie.
>>7612819
It's believed in academia to be ghost-written actually. Which is also another reason I want to reread it again
>>7612823
I haven't heard that theory before. It's supposedly badly enough written that Hitler himself probably wrote it, if it was a ghostwriter you'd think they'd hire someone competent.
>>7612770
Did the publishers go out of their way to make the design of the book as fucking ugly as possible?
I mean, fuck, just look at that thing. A fucking huge grey square against a white background and some fucking paragraphs of fuck knows what randomly placed.
>>7612834
post some passages you find "incompetent" i'm curious to see what a shitty writer hitler is, post your favorite bad parts so we can all chuckle at the german's stupidity
>>7612881
Pretty much all of volume 2: The National Socialist Movement is where you start getting lost. Volume 1: The Reckoning I honestly enjoyed.
>>7612876
Not very many books intended for research/intelligent crowds look very good (pic related -- current reading/christmas gift)
>>7612876
Hitler's full name isn't even on the cover either which is weird.
>>7612881
It's more or less confusing because imo it seems like the writer is just trying to sound smart. http://www.hitler.org/writings/Mein_Kampf/mkv2ch06.html
>>7612912
that book is gay as shit, you should have gotten something not 50 years old, Cormen's Algoritms for example
>>7612925
>it seems like the writer is just trying to sound smart.
so you mean it's like every marxist text written since the bolshevik revolution? cool
>>7612927
>christmas gift
I'm a Cyber Security Engineer, and my mom knows I like Python
yeah the only code in there is a machine language and the math isn't relatable to anything a developer does
>>7612925
you found that confusing? you must be seriously retarded
>>7612932
Found the butthurt /pol/ack
>>7612932
It literally is like Capital. Just one long rant that loses direction. I was in 9th grade when I read it and it made more sense than MK
>>7612950
>The chapter is supposed to be about how spoken word is powerful. Go to any paragraph to try to find that, because I sure as well can't.
then you must be a dumb mother fucker...every fucking paragraph is about that. you best be trolling, otherwise a chilling throught has filled my mind...that the people who said hitler is a bad writer are bad READERS!
What gave Marxism its amazing influence over the broad masses was not that formal printed work which sets forth the Jewish system of ideas, but the tremendous oral propaganda carried on for years among the masses. Out of one hundred thousand German workers scarcely one hundred know of Marx's book. It has been studied much more in intellectual circles and especially by the Jews than by the genuine followers of the movement who come from the lower classes. That work was not written for the masses, but exclusively for the intellectual leaders of the Jewish machine for conquering the world. The engine was heated with quite different stuff: namely, the journalistic Press. What differentiates the bourgeois Press from the Marxist Press is that the latter is written by agitators, whereas the bourgeois Press would like to carry on agitation by means of professional writers. The Social-Democrat sub-editor, who almost always came directly from the meeting to the editorial offices of his paper, felt his job on his finger-tips. But the bourgeois writer who left his desk to appear before the masses already felt ill when he smelled the very odour of the crowd and found that what he had written was useless to him.
What won over millions of workpeople to the Marxist cause was not the ex cathedra style of the Marxist writers but the formidable propagandist work done by tens of thousands of indefatigable agitators, commencing with the leading fiery agitator down to the smallest official in the syndicate, the trusted delegate and the platform orator. Furthermore, there were the hundreds of thousands of meetings where these orators, standing on tables in smoky taverns, hammered their ideas into the heads of the masses, thus acquiring an admirable psychological knowledge of the human material they had to deal with. And in this way they were enabled to select the best weapons for their assault on the citadel of public opinion. In addition to all this there were the gigantic mass-demonstrations with processions in which a hundred thousand men took part. All this was calculated to impress on the petty-hearted individual the proud conviction that, though a small worm, he was at the same time a cell of the great dragon before whose devastating breath the hated bourgeois world would one day be consumed in fire and flame, and the dictatorship of the proletariat would celebrate its conclusive victory.
>>7612964
Wow, a little bit heated up my dude?
>>7612983
>mods read that without reading the replies leading up to it
>another 30 day ban for me
e/lit/e
>>7612964
I simply put that link because that's right about where I started getting lost. I personally can't comprehend it and neither can most people which is why they are releasing a ultra-abridged version of it lol
>>7612964
>What gave Marxism its amazing influence over the broad masses was not that formal printed work which sets forth the Jewish system of ideas, but the tremendous oral propaganda carried on for years among the masses. Out of one hundred thousand German workers scarcely one hundred know of Marx's book. It has been studied much more in intellectual circles and especially by the Jews than by the genuine followers of the movement who come from the lower classes. That work was not written for the masses, but exclusively for the intellectual leaders of the Jewish machine for conquering the world. The engine was heated with quite different stuff: namely, the journalistic Press. What differentiates the bourgeois Press from the Marxist Press is that the latter is written by agitators, whereas the bourgeois Press would like to carry on agitation by means of professional writers. The Social-Democrat sub-editor, who almost always came directly from the meeting to the editorial offices of his paper, felt his job on his finger-tips. But the bourgeois writer who left his desk to appear before the masses already felt ill when he smelled the very odour of the crowd and found that what he had written was useless to him.
>What won over millions of workpeople to the Marxist cause was not the ex cathedra style of the Marxist writers but the formidable propagandist work done by tens of thousands of indefatigable agitators, commencing with the leading fiery agitator down to the smallest official in the syndicate, the trusted delegate and the platform orator. Furthermore, there were the hundreds of thousands of meetings where these orators, standing on tables in smoky taverns, hammered their ideas into the heads of the masses, thus acquiring an admirable psychological knowledge of the human material they had to deal with. And in this way they were enabled to select the best weapons for their assault on the citadel of public opinion. In addition to all this there were the gigantic mass-demonstrations with processions in which a hundred thousand men took part. All this was calculated to impress on the petty-hearted individual the proud conviction that, though a small worm, he was at the same time a cell of the great dragon before whose devastating breath the hated bourgeois world would one day be consumed in fire and flame, and the dictatorship of the proletariat would celebrate its conclusive victory.
I'm not getting heated, that is a quote from Mein Kampf where he discusses the importance of public speaking, which you asked about...I could have quoted any couple paragraphs really but that had some especially nice language with regard to our judaic comrades lol
>>7613026
the irony is contemporary marxists could learn from this why their movement today is so flaccid (besides the failure of the bolshevik revolution and world communism i mean) in the sense that you don't win over illiterate workers with tricky books of judaic wordgames, you have to go the masses and tell them what to do very clearly, since the working class clearly needs to be told what to do or they wouldn't be working class waiting around for some boss to enforce discipline on their aimless life
>>7612912
I know it's way old and not as relevant anymore but I've been wanting to give Knuth a spin anyway
>>7612916
>Hitler's full name isn't even on the cover either which is weird.
Hitler's like Hendrix man, he doesn't need a first name
>>7612770
>Does anyone know if the critical edition of Mein Kampf is only available in German for a reason ?
the reason: Jews
MK is a great book, but heavy reading too. Start by checking out the protocols of the elders of zion and liebenfels' Theozoology
>>7613309
>MK is a great book
lmao, it's basically just a meme and has no actual literary and political quality at all
>>7613321
thanks for your opinion, shlomo, but as a student of literature and shameless white cismale i beg to differ.
>>7612938
It's Don Knuth tho, that guy is based af.
>>7613309
The protocols are a severely retarded fake. I mean "we will build underground train systems so we can easily blow up entire cities". If you're gonna fake some shit, at least come up with something not super retarded,
>>7613334
Starting any argument with "as a" is the highest form of faggotry known to man.
>>7613334
why would you lie, heinrich...?
or are you an american who bases his knowledge of the prose on a translation?
>>7613349
whatever might be said about their authenticity or lack thereof, you can't deny the author of the protocols had great insights on the nature of the Jew and the treacherous methods common to that race.
>>7613366
Oh do go away, I enjoy observing /pol/ sperg out with their retarded antisemitism as much as the next guy, but bringing that faggotry up anywhere else is just sad.
>tfw you can own a controversial book without thousands of annotations and edits to make it acceptable to modern readers
>>7613309
>tfw you agree with most of the Protocols
>tfw not even jewish
>>7613309
>protocols of the elders of zion
excerpt from the protocols:
>In the year 1844, on the eve of the Jewish Revolution of 1848, Benjamin Disraeli, whose real name was Israel, and who was a "damped," or baptized Jew, published his novel, CONINGSBY, in which occurs this ominous passage:
> "The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."
>And he went on to show that these personages were all Jews.
anyone read that novel?
>>7612938
>math isn't relatable to anything a developer does
This is typically what shitty developers say
>>7613447
>Math is important to developers
this is what college kuks who are wasting a year of their life grinding through the calculus sequence doing a computer science degree tell themselves... "oh i'm sure all these continuous wave forms are going to be extremely helpful when i'm coding web apps on a digital computer, otherwise it wouldn't be a college requirement, after all colleges only teach you what is useful in the real world!"
>>7613416
>it is an advantage to NOT have a historical-critical edition of a book
>>7613473
>needing a jewish editor to fill in the basic details of the balfour declaration and the brest litovsk treaty
stay pleb shitling
>>7613416
My school's library has the same version as you.
The one I read
>>7613500
dude i've read TAoCP, it's not that it's not "applicable" or something, it's just a big book of algorithms, but it's written with some awful 1960s coding style that if you wrote code like that today would beconsidered "shitty code", moreover, all the shit in it is already implemented in most frameworks and libraries...despite what they tell you to get you to do your homework in CS101, no one is ever going to write any of sorts or data structures in real life, you're going to use the one built in and optimized for whatever platform you're using. of course a few people need to know that shit in order to do that systems level programming, but most programming projects are not and should not be systems level projects. they don't really teach you how to be a "good coder" in college, being a good coder means writing easily readable, maintainable, modular, well commented code that works correctly. squeezing an extra 2% of performance out of some sort with sneaky optimizations is not what good developers do, good developers deliver working code on time. that is all.
