The Führer versusFree Enterprise 179JewishIndustrialistsPortrayedas “TheMan”
Theparallelsin politicalrhetoricdo not stopthere.We haveexaminedthe Reich
chancellor’s rantsaboutthe machinationsof Jewishcapitalists.Nowmatchthemagainst
MichaelMoore’s diatribesabouta cabalof multinationalcorporatebillionaireswhoma-
nipulatethe public.See howsimilaror differenttheysound.Accordingto Moore,
Thereis a masterplan,... and the sooneryou can get overnot wantingto believeit,...
the soonerwe havea chanceof stoppingthem.Theirsingulargoalis to takeenough
controloverour livesso that,in the end,we’ll pledgeallegiance,not to a flag..., but to the
dictatesof Citigroup[a financialservicescompany],Exxon,Nike,GE [GeneralElectric],
GM[GeneralMotors],P&G [Procter& Gamble],andPhilipMorris[thecigarettemanu-
facturer].... and all that remainsis the day whenit will be codifiedontoa pieceof paper,
the Declarationof the CorporateStatesof America.... The takeoverhas happenedright
underour noses....
Andit is onlygoingto get worse.Whateverbenefitsyoumayhavenoware goingto be
whittleddownto nothing....
So youslavedyourlife away,youworkedlonghours,yougaveeverythingyouhadto
helpyourcompanyearnrecordprofits.Whenyou wentintothe votingboothyou voted
for theirRepublican(andDemocratic)candidatesjust like theyaskedyouto—andafter
you retired,thisis the thanksyougot.A seniordiscount...on yourlife [emphasis
Moore’s].^7Thatsoundsfamiliar.HenryAshbyTurnerelaboratesthatHitler’s antipathytowardthe
IndustrialRevolutionand InventivePeriod“echoedthe viewsof thosecriticsof German
industrialismwho,in the greatcontroversyat the end of the nineteenthcentury,opposed
increasedrelianceon commerceand manufacturingthroughfreertrade.... He deplored
the setbackssufferedby thatschoolof thought.He tracedto the inroadsmadeby the
advocatesof industrialismandfreetrademuchthathadgonewrongsincethen....
Throughoutthe 1920she repeatedin his writingsandspeechesthe viewpointsof the
turn-of-the-centurycriticsof industrialism.... Likeso manyothercriticsof industrialism,
he alsoharboreda profounddistastefor the hugeurbanconcentrationsof populationto
whichthat processhad givenrise.... Hitler’s negativeoutlooktowardindustryand cities
carriedoverinto his attitudetowardthe practitionersof big business.”^8
AndifMeinKampfcouldidentifyone especialgeographiclocusof Jewishcapitalist
greed,it wouldbe the sameone thatthe radicalLeftcontinuesto kvetchaboutas I type
thesewords.To quoteMeinKampf, “It is Jewswhogovernthe stockexchangeforcesof the
AmericanUnion.”^9 In a conversationwithWagenerin the 1930s,Hitlerannouncedthat
“a newgreatadversaryhas arisenacrossthe Atlantic—America.As a resultof excessive
industrialization,... Americahas no choicebut to wagean imperialpolicyall overthe
world.”^10 In otherconversations,the mustacheddemagoguecouldnot helpbut jeer at the
UnitedStatesfor beingwhathe called“a decayedcountry,withproblemsof raceand
socialinequality.. .” He sawit as a place“whereeverythingis builton the dollar.. .”^11
“Whatis America” he raged,“but millionaires,beautyqueens,stupidrecordsand Holly-
wood?” Nothing,he believed,sincethe countryhas longbeenafflictedby “the most
graspingmaterialism.”^12 The Nazis’ collaboratorsin Franceconcurred,mouthingthat the
USAwasa nationof monopoliesand“gangsterism,” andthateveryAmericanis a “vile
profiteerwhoonlyrespectsmoney.”^13
In yet anotherdiscussionwithWagener,the Führerwenton that the U.S.is a hotbedof
licentiousness.Suchdepravity,Hitlermaintained,resultedfromJewish industrialists
havingascendedto sucha highpositionin our nation,andthe influencethe USApro-
videsto the restof the Earth.“Hamburgappearsto me a modelof howthe highest
culturallife can be stifledanddestroyedby industrialism.. .” The erosionof publiclife