From a Marxist perspective, the term ‘National
Socialism’ has a very different meaning to that which Hitler
gave it – applying to countries which nationalise means and
resources of production – not least oil production –
previously exploited by private or foreign-owned capitalist
corporations. It was those imperialist coups, assassinations
and massacres which destroyed previously democratic
‘National Socialist’ regimes in developing countries such as
Indonesia, Egypt, Iraq and Iran – installing corrupt, socially
and politically oppressive dictators in their place – which
first created the social and political vacuum that was later
filled by radical Islam.
Esoteric and Exoteric History
The svastika symbol itself had been used in German
esoteric circles long before its adoption by the Nazis – for
example by the German branch of Theosophical Society
which gave prominence to Indian religious philosophy and
yet was later banned by the Nazis. Behind this use of the
swastika however, lies a lesser known esoteric history of the
‘Indo-Germanic’ connection. Hinduism, as we know,
recognises the reality of reincarnation, and yet few thinkers,
Indian or European, have explored the esoteric relation
between reincarnation on the one hand and exoteric history
on the other, and the importance of reincarnation in
coming to a religious-esoteric understanding of the relation