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Originally Posted by Jane Oldaker
I'm intrigued by the speculation on why read it so I'm gonna stick my oar in too. I posit that it is essential for academics to have some understanding of it. In fact I would suggest that it behooves much of humanity to have a minimal, stress minimal understanding of it. And I'm going to have to speculate that most Neo-Nazis who possess it haven't read it or much of anything else for that matter.
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In general, it's a pretty good idea to know what your ideological opponents think so that you at least know what you're objecting to. If all you know about Hitler's philosophy is "hates Jews", then you're likely to miss similarities to fascism in the modern political sphere.