One of Hitler's strongest points in Mein Kampf was his advocacy of educational aid for the gifted but loyal and lowborn. He even praised the American system for being more meritocratic than that in Europe. He seemed to recognize that nepotism was a problem with the traditional bourgeois conservatives, and this huge moral defect was driving otherwise loyal German workers to Marxism. Hitler was a leveler of the hierarchy of family connections that was leading to Germany's destruction in the context of universal suffrage and democracy in which Marxism was an option. No one can read Mein Kampf without remembering his very frequent condemnations of the useless bourgeois political parties who did absolutely nothing to stop the growth of Marxism in Europe.

As someone of Slav descent who has benefitted from the American system of somewhat meritocratic college admissions and financial aid, I have some sympathy for his concern for the lowborn Germans. But even here in the US we have people looking down their nose at the lowborn among us, calling us "white trash" openly and unapologetically in public and in front of children. You have to be a real piece of filth to make me sympathize with the famous Slav-hater Hitler, yet there you have it. I got the impression that he didn't want to abuse the weak, as long as they were loyal. But he had zero sympathy for the disloyal, the baselessly arrogant, and those who lacked all community spirit.

One of Hitler's strongest points in Mein Kampf was his advocacy of educational aid for the gifted but loyal and lowborn. He even praised the American system for being more meritocratic than that in Europe. He seemed to recognize that nepotism was a problem with the traditional bourgeois conservatives, and this huge moral defect was driving otherwise loyal German workers to Marxism. Hitler was a leveler of the hierarchy of family connections that was leading to Germany's destruction in the context of universal suffrage and democracy in which Marxism was an option. No one can read Mein Kampf without remembering his very frequent condemnations of the useless bourgeois political parties who did absolutely nothing to stop the growth of Marxism in Europe.

As someone of Slav descent who has benefitted from the American system of somewhat meritocratic college admissions and financial aid, I have some sympathy for his concern for the lowborn Germans. But even here in the US we have people looking down their nose at the lowborn among us, calling us "white trash" openly and unapologetically in public and in front of children. You have to be a real piece of filth to make me sympathize with the famous Slav-hater Hitler, yet there you have it.

One of Hitler's strongest points in Mein Kampf was his advocacy of educational aid for the gifted but loyal and lowborn. He even praised the American system for being more meritocratic than that in Europe. He seemed to recognize that nepotism was a problem with the traditional bourgeois conservatives, and this huge moral defect was driving otherwise loyal German workers to Marxism. Hitler was a leveler of the hierarchy of family connections that was leading to Germany's destruction in the context of universal suffrage and democracy in which Marxism was an option. No one can read Mein Kampf without remembering his very frequent condemnations of the useless bourgeois political parties who did absolutely nothing to stop the growth of Marxism in Europe.