
Your Hitler frequently praised the notion of the heroic individual believing it was the “strength and power of individual personalit
y” that determined the economic fate of both the individual and the people. He told a group of conservati
ve industrial
ists in Düsseldorf in 1932:
"You maintain, gentlemen, that the German economy must be constructe
d on the basis of private property. Now such a conception of private property can only be maintained in practice if it in some way appears to have a logical foundation
. This conception must derive its ethical justificat
ion from the insight that this is what nature dictates..
.the outstandin
g achievemen
ts of individual
s [mean] people are not of equal value or of equal importance
," and that capitalism is "morally and ethically justified only if [we] admit that men’s achievemen
ts are different.
..The creative and decomposin
g forces in a people always fight against one another.”
Rand couldn't agree more. Like Hitler she believed that capitalism was vulnerable and lacked what she said was “a philosophi
cal base” and needed a logical foundation grounded in nature itself - that it must “begin at the beginning.
..In order to sustain its life, every living species has to follow a certain course of action required by its nature.”
Like both Hitler and Goebbels, Rand preached that this "logical foundation
" was grounded in man's "struggle for survival. Goebbels was crystal clear in his infamous 1943 Berlin speech: CONT'D
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