Comments by "Comented onakeyboard" (@comentedonakeyboard) on "From Plato to Hitler: The Ideological Origins of National Socialism" video.

  1. Well since he published it at the end of the war (44 or 45 i think) it cant have helped much in the fight. But it certainly helps understand it. And it is a realy good book.
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  2.  @drstrangelove09  yes
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  3. A world messed up by nazism.
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  4. Somehow Altruism tends to promote the self(ish) Interest of those who promote it. What a coincidence!
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  5. Karl Popper allready did it in "The open society and it's enemys" ca 1945.
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  6. And can be (un) surprisingly selfish (i.e. self serving charities, aid Programms etc)
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  7.  @drstrangelove09  yes. The point that i'm trying to make is that selfdeclared selflesness of many (suposedly) benevolent movements, is nothing but the fassade for the selfishness of the leadership. And beeing based on a lie it cant work rational (soviet politics, both domestic and abroad, is a perfect example). And Rands (enlightened) selfishness has the benefit of being honestly.
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  8. Karl Popper saw the Plato to Hitler pipeline to.
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  9. I'm East German and i can asure you Socialism can look pretty, or rather ugly, much like Fascism light.
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