Mein Kampf - Chapter XI - Propaganda and Organization "...I considered this section by far the most important. For the first it was less important to rack one's brain about questions of organization than to impart the idea itself to the greater number of people..."
"...If a movement has the intention of pulling down a world and building a new one in it's place, then there must be absolute clarity about the following points in the ranks of it's own leaders: Every movement, at first will have to divide the human material it has into two great groups: into followers and members.

The task of propaganda is to attract followers; the task of organization is to win members.

A follower of a movement is one who declares himself in agreement with it's aims; a member is one who fights for it.

The follower is inclined to like a movement by it's propaganda. The member is induced by the organization to help personally towards acquiring new followers who then, in turn, can be trained to become members.

As followership demands only a passive appreciation of an idea, while membership demands an active presentation and defense, there will be ten followers for every one or two members at most.

The followership is rooted only in recognition membership, in the courage to present personally, and to spread further what has been recognized.

Recognition in it's passive form corresponds to the majority of humankind, which is inert and cowardly. Membership requires an effective mind and thus corresponds only to the minority of men.
Therefore, propaganda will have to see to it that untiringly an idea wins followers, while the organization has to watch most sharply that from the followers only the most valuable ones are made members. Propaganda, therefore, needs not to rack it's brain about the importance of each individual it enlightens, about his ability, achievements, and understanding or of his character, while the organization has most carefully to collect from the masses of these elements those who really make possible the victory of the movement..."

== Feisty

From: "Feisty" <sunny@skytoday.com>
Subject: Propaganda and Doctrine
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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 10:13:53 -0600
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Mein Kampf - Chapter XI - Propaganda and Organization ..."Propaganda tries to force a doctrine upon an entire people;

organization embraces in it's frame only those who for psychological reasons do not threaten to become a brake to a further spreading of the ideas.

Propaganda works on the community in the sense an idea and makes it ripe for the time of the victory of this idea, while the organization conquers victory by it's permanent, organic, and fighting union of those followers who appear able and willing to lead the fight for victory.

The victory of an idea will be the more possible the more extensively propaganda works on people in their entirety, and the more exclusive, the stricter, and stiffer the organization is which carries out the fight in practice. From this ensues the fact that the number of followers cannot be too great, whereas the number of members can more easily be too large than too small.

When propaganda has filled a whole people with an idea, the organization, with the help of a handful of people, can draw the consequences. Propaganda and the organization - that means followers and members - have thus a definite mutual relationship. The better propaganda has been working, the smaller may be the organization, and the greater number of followers is, the more modest can be the number of members, and vie versa: the worse propaganda is, the greater must and will be the organization, and the smaller the host of followers of a movement remains, the greater must be the number of members, if it still wishes to count on success at all.

The first task of propaganda is the winning of people for future organization; the first task of the organization is the winning of people for the continuation of the propaganda. The second task of propaganda is the destruction of the existing condition and the permeation of this condition with the new doctrine, while the second task of the organization must be the fight for power, so that by it it will achieve the final success of the doctrine.

The most striking success of the revolution of a view of life will always be won whenever the new view of life is, if possible, taught to all people, and, if necessary, is later forced upon them, while the organization of -the- idea, that means the movement has to embrace only so many peeople as absolutely necessary for the occupation of the nreve centers of the State involved..."

== Feisty

From: "Feisty" <sunny@skytoday.com>
Subject: Propaganda and the Revolutionary Movement
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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 10:34:35 -0600
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Mein Kampf - Chapter XI - Propaganda and Organization "...The most striking success of the revolution of a view of life will always be won whenever the new view of life is, if possible, taught to all people, and, if necessary, is later forced upon them, while the organization of -the- idea, that means the movement, has to embrace only so many people as absolutely necessary for the occupation of the nerve centers of the State involved.

That means in other words:

In every great revolutionary movement propaganda will first have to spread the idea of this movement. That means, it will untiringly try to make clear to the others the new train of thought, to draw them over to it's own ground, or at least to make them doubtful of their own previous condition.

Since the propagation of a doctrine -that means this propaganda - has to have a backbone, the doctrine will have to give itself a solid organization. The organization receives it's members from the followers in general won by propaganda. The latter will grow the more quickly, the more intensively propaganda is carried out, and the latter in turn is able to work the better, the stronger and the more vigorous the organization is that stands behind it.

The highest task of organization therefore is to see to it that no kind of internal disagreements among the members of the movement lead to a cleavage and with it to a weakening of the work in the movement; further, that that spirit of determined aggression does not die out, but that it continuously renews and fortifies itself. The number of members need not grow infinitely, on the contrary; since only a fraction of mankind is energetic and bold, a movement which enlarges it's organization ad infinitum would necessarily some day be weakened by this procedure. Organizations - that means numbers of members which grow beyond a certain limit - gradually lose their fighting force and are no longer able to support, or rather to benefit from, the propaganda of an idea by determination and attack..."

=== Feisty

From: "Feisty" <sunny@skytoday.com>
Subject: The World Bankers
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Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 10:43:07 -0600
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Mein Kampf - APPENDIX - (Following Chapter XII ,"The First Period in the Development of the National Socialist German Workers' Party) - .."As a model for our young movement I add a number of these appeals in an index. They embrace a period of nearly three years; they are best able to prove the enormous struggle which the young movement fought out in those days. But they are also to give testimony to posterity of the will and the honesty of our convictions, and the depotism of the so-called national authorities in suppressing a nationalization amazing to them, and thus a regaining of the greater masses of our people..."

--- NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMAN WORKERS PARTY When on November 9, 1918, the German people was driven into revolution, it was told that this was the beginning of the 'nations' liberation' from the bonds of 'world capitalism.' Today the makers of the revolution of that time admit that the whole world is ruled by a gang of Jewish exchange bandits, that no longer the nations but the 'world bankers' decide on the destinies of this earth.

In this way the true purpose of the revolution is fulfilled.

While the power of the international stock exchange dictatorship, thanks to the protection by the Marxist and democratic parties, grows more and more, the last remnants of millions of independent existences are destroyed.

The extinction of our retail traders and of our retail commerce is the extended final goal of our present so-called 'Social' Policy A fraud upon the nations such as the world has never seen before.

Fellow Citizens !

Members of the doomed classes and professions, small business men and small tradesman, manual laborers and officals, workers of all professions and classes!

Come to the great public MASS MEETING at the Burgerbraukeller-Festsaal (Rosenheimer Strasse), on Thrusday, September 28, 1922.

Our party member, Adolph Hitler will speak about:

'THE POLICY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE MIDDLE CLASS' Beginning 8 p.m. Jews not admitted To cover expenses of the hall and posters admission M.1.- War invalids free Summoner: For the party management, A. Drexler __________________________________________________ The meeting was attended by more than 2600 persons.
=== Feisty

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