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Anton Drexler was a Munich locksmith who was unfit for service during World War I. He opposed trade unions, hated Marxism, believed that if Germany did not become mighty she would be ruined by international finance. In March 1918, he gathered 40 Germans into a Munich beer hall, formed the Committee of Independent Workmen. The next year they called themselves the German Workers' Party and Adolf Hitler was admitted as the seventh member of the inner cell. In 1920 the organization's name was again changed to the National Socialist German Workers' Party and Hitler began muscling...
...that Marshal Pétain might like to backtrack on collaboration, if he had the chance. But if the old Marshal was any less determined to make France a fascist-style totalitarian state, he did not say so. Instead, he said: "I do not want for my country either Marxism or liberal capitalism. The new order which is about to assume its place cannot be founded on anything but a severe internal order...
...Anti-Semitism-"The part played by the bourgeois in popular Marxism is played in popular Naziism by the Jew . . . the principle of these inventions must be sought ... in Marx and Sorel...
...Socialism-"Socialism has to come. I hope you will not misunderstand my rejection of doctrinaire Marxism and of the parties that have represented it politically. In a democratic order in Germany a socialistic labor party will be indispensable...
Though The Conservative Revolution makes an excellent book title, as a political slogan it leads Author Rauschning into all kinds of verbal quibblings. By it Rauschning means that against the Marxist revolutionary forces which are rending Europe (Naziism, he says, is Marxism rampant no less than Bolshevism), men like himself must fight to the death. But a struggle against revolution cannot be revolution: it is counterrevolution. Counterrevolution is what Rauschning wanted when he joined the Nazis, but they turned out to be part of the revolution. Conservative counterrevolution, preferably nonviolent, is what he still wants. It is bound to prevail...