Hitler and Environmentalism

Nazism was another type of socialism practiced by the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (aka the Nazi Party), led by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. Hitler’s Nazis held many key tenets in common with the philosophy articulated by Marx. They believed in a government-regulated, planned economy. More important, though Hitler was agreeable to the limited private ownership of property, he was against capitalism and those who sought undo personal profit. During his reign of terror, a popular government slogan was “Fixing of profits, not their suppression.”

Hitler also believed capitalism was created by the Jews and once told Italian Fascist dictator Mussolini, “Capitalism has run its course.”

So determined was Hitler to eliminate excessive profit that execution or imprisonment in a concentration camp was the punishment exacted for any business owner who pursued his own self-interest, instead of the interests of the state. This official decree was stamped into the rim of the silver reichsmark coins issued during the Nazi reign: “Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz,” or “The common good before self-interest.”

Additionally, like Marx, Hitler saw nature, not humankind, as supreme. He also insisted that the environment be protected from commercial development, stating, “Man must not fall into the error of thinking that he was ever meant to become lord and master of Nature.”

Like his communist cousins, Hitler perceived pollution as the direct result of capitalism and, as a fellow materialist who spurned belief in the supernatural (despite occasional vague rhetoric about “Providence”), he was completely opposed to the harvesting or mining of natural resources, stating, “The German countryside must be preserved under all circumstances, for it is and has forever been the source of strength and greatness of our people.”

Following Marx, Lenin, and Hitler, a new generation would go forth to further unfurl socialism’s green flag, and they would achieve great success with their devious agenda...even in America.

Source: Eco-Tyranny. How the Left’s Green Agenda Will Dismantle America (2012) by Brian Sussman.

So, Hitler wasn’t a socialist huh? In his book Mr. Sussman also gives a 12-point plan on how to dismantle the eco-tyrannists plans. Like, for instance, abolish the Environmental Protection Agency, repeal the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, abolish the Department of Interior, repeal the Endangered Species Act (he says this can be handled by the states) etc. Those acts by themselves will give the environmental extremists a stroke for sure.