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willpersist“unlesswe opposeexcessiveindustrializationand Americanizationby offer-
ing somethingnew.” Oneof the resultsof WorldWarOneis “that,wherevercapitalism
reigns,Americahas supremacy.AndsinceAmericasuffersfromindustrialoverproduc-
tion,it will exploitthis supremacyto disposeof its overproduction.” Notethat this is part
of the anti-globalizationtheorythatLeninbolstersinImperialism,The HighestStageof
Capitalism, as we discoveredin BookTwo.AndHitlercontinuesthat the perilof industri-
alization“concernseveryone.... Onlywhencapitalismhas beenbroken,abolished,
replacedby somethingnewdoesAmerica’s powerstop.... Fromtherean anti-industrial
worldcan be erected.”^14
At this pointWageneraskedhimwhatsucha de-industrializedparadisewouldlook
like.^15 QuotingHitler’s answer,it wouldbe a societythatrecognizedthat“the econo-
my...mustbe placedat the serviceof the Volk.Thatwe willachievethrougha structure
of...supervisorystateplanning.” Uponcompletingthatstep,the Nazismust“formeco-
nomiccommunitiesof interestwiththe countriesaroundus—withPoland,Czechoslova-
kia, Austria,Hungary,and the Balkans;further,withDenmarkand Holland,and perhaps
withBelgiumand Luxembourg;and withSwitzerlandas well.Thus,a CentralEuropean
economicblocwouldbe created.... Handin handwithit goesa monetaryunion,
followedby a customsunion.... In this way,Europewouldat last be givena strong
heart,whichwouldassumein wholeor in partthe principlesof our socialeconomics—
and this wouldhappenall the soonerthe moresuccessfullythis formdevelopsamongus
andthe moreseverethe Communistpressurefromthe East,on the one hand,andthe
economic-imperialistpressurefromAmerica,on the other”^16 (emphasisWagener’s).
Whenit comesto revilingboththe SovietUnionandAmericancommerceas compar-
ablyevil empires,the Reichchancellorhas somecompany.MichaelMooreshoutsthatas
far as the U.S.economyis laissezfaire,it is “unfairand unjustand it’s not democraticand
it has to change.” Referencinghis finalline fromhis movieThe Big One—“Oneevil empire
[theSovietUnion]down,one to go”—Mooreclarifiesthathe meansthat“our system,”
commercialenterprise,“is the one that’s got to go.”^17 Moore,a native-bornAmerican,
alsosharesin thisantipathyagainstthe USAandits internationalappeal.Moreover,
Moore’s grievancesagainstthe USAmatchHitler’s—the countryis too capitalisticand
thereforeimmoral.The filmmakerresentsthattoo few Americansare as eageras he is to
startan insurrectionthatwouldseparatethe capitalistclassfromits property.For that
reason,we Americans“are possiblythe dumbestpeopleon the planet... in thrallto
thieving,conniving,smugpricks.”^18 ConsequentlyMooreasks,“Shouldsuchan ignorant
peopleleadthe world?”^19 Thushe toldan audienceof Germans,“Don’t be like us,”^20 and
addressedyet anothercrowdin Cambridge,England—“You’re stuckwithbeingcon-
nectedto this countryof mine,whichis knownfor bringingsadnessand miseryto places
aroundthe globe.”^21
MeinKampfconcludesthatits litanyof chargesagainstbusinessmenin generaland
Jewishbusinessmenin particularuncoversthe reasonswhythe “fightagainstinternation-
al financeandloancapitalbecamethe mostimportantpointin the programof the Ger-
mannation’s struggle.. .”^22
Morethana handfulof Hitler’s ideasare recognizablein Osamabin Laden’s Open
Letterto America.The al-Qaedamastermindsputtersthatthe Americanstockmarketis
nothingmorethan“gambling,” whichresultsin “investmentsbecomingactiveandthe
criminalsbecomingrich.” Thisis badon the groundsthatthe USAis a “nationthat
permitsUsury,whichhas beenforbiddenby all the religions.Yet youbuildyourecono-
my and investmentson Usury.As a resultof this,in all its differentformsand guises,the
Jewshavetakencontrolof youreconomy,throughwhichtheyhavethentakencontrolof
yourmedia,andnowcontrolall aspectsof yourlife makingyoutheirservantsand