Have you read Mein Kampf?

[Stoat Boy]

Yep. Slogged my way through it whilst doing history A level.

 

[Geri]

No, I don't read boring political tomes.

 

[kained&able]

read bits of it.


dave

 

[zenie]

No, I don't read boring political tomes.

ahahaha

 

[Rod Sleeves]

No, I don't read boring political tomes.

What about dusty pamphlets?

I've flicked through Mein Kampf but never been arsed to read it properly though I might at some point.

I have read the whole of that book on workers' councils by Anton Pannekoek though, and I'm quite proud of that.

 

[chico enrico]

Tried to read The Communist Manifesto and that bored me to tears, so I can't imagine Mein Kampf to be any more rivetting.

but the communist manifesto is only something like 120 pages!

mein kampf is boring as fuck tho. i read it when i was at school but i did skim a lot of it as it was just boring with big clapters about the versailles treaty etc. and how hard done-by germany was.

to be honest, i was exting it to be one long deranged ranmt, like Goebbels used to write in Der Sturmer etc but it wasn't. it was just shite.

 

[chico enrico]

I've was given a copy and was urged on here to give it a go, started it, read a couple of chapters though as dire as you'd expect so gave up.... no sex or nothing...

is actually worth a bit.... goes for about 65 on ebay though something I like about old books that has stopped me selling

what? mein kampf? QUALITY!!

but surely you can still get it from any old bookshop or whatever?

 

[DotCommunist]

I imagine the older editions are worth some cash. Much like any old classic/political text

 

[Dr_Herbz]

Read it... it was shite. Kinda thing students read then try to make out they're all intellectual loike because they managed to traverse both covers without cutting their wrists.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

If one miraculously fell onto my stomach while I was lying on the couch, I'd probably pick it up and thumb through it. Barring that happening, it's unlikely that I'll expend the energy necessary to obtain a copy in any other way.

 

[dylans]

Tried to read The Communist Manifesto and that bored me to tears, so I can't imagine Mein Kampf to be any more rivetting.

The communist manifesto isn't boring at all. It's a great read "There is a spectre haunting Europe" etc etc. Great little book

I read Mein Kampf at Uni. it's badly written incoherent and crap.

I also read the holocaust denial toilet paper "did Six million really die." by I forget the scumbag who wrote it and can't be bothered to google him.

I took a marker pen and wrote "YES THEY DID" across the inside cover which was pretty juvenile I know but seemed like a good idea at the time

I was studying a module on sociology and Holocaust at the time and both books were in the Uni library. Reading them got me thinkiing about censorship etc cus I couldn't imagine the holocaust denial book being available at Waterstones for the general public but here It was available for a bunch of elitist students to read. Neither book will be on my christmas list needless to add.

 

[nightowl]

i've flicked over the first few pages at a bookshop but that's as far as i want to go

 

[Rod Sleeves]

Interestingly in Bolivia Mein Kampf and Henry Ford's big rant book about Jews (I forget the name of it), where sold on every single bookstall I saw, or if they weren't there 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' were. This is despite the fact that there are very few Jews in Bolivia despite it being one of the few countries to offer them refuge before and during WWII, and there being several Jewish funded charitable schools dotted around. I couldn't find any evidence of actual anti semitism, and there were quite a few Israeli tourists there.

 

[Pickman's model]

This is a poll.

so it is!

 

[Pickman's model]

The communist manifesto isn't boring at all. It's a great read "There is a spectre haunting Europe" etc etc. Great little book

I read Mein Kampf at Uni. it's badly written incoherent and crap.

I also read the holocaust denial toilet paper "did Six million really die." by I forget the scumbag who wrote it and can't be bothered to google him.

I took a marker pen and wrote "YES THEY DID" across the inside cover which was pretty juvenile I know but seemed like a good idea at the time

I was studying a module on sociology and Holocaust at the time and both books were in the Uni library. Reading them got me thinkiing about censorship etc cus I couldn't imagine the holocaust denial book being available at Waterstones for the general public but here It was available for a bunch of elitist students to read. Neither book will be on my christmas list needless to add.

right. so instead of the uni library only having to buy one copy of 'did six million...' you made sure they had to buy another. how considerate.

 

[dylans]

right. so instead of the uni library only having to buy one copy of 'did six million...' you made sure they had to buy another. how considerate.

Yeah well as I said it seems pretty juvenile in retrospect. It was 20 years ago, and there is something about defacing any book that makes me cringe now I look back. So yeah, you're right.

 

[Pickman's model]

let that be a lesson to you, young dylans.

do not deface library books unless you can be as funny as joe orton

 

[danny la rouge]

do not deface library books unless you can be as funny as joe orton