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Podcast: New Discourses
Episode: The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 10: Blood, Soil, and the Racial State
Description: The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 185
The Nazi Experiment wasn't just an idea. It was an idea put into practice. Putting that idea into practice started with a movement, but it required a totalitarian state apparatus to fully implement, to tremendous disaster. What was Adolf Hitler's real vision for the Nazi State? He makes it plain: the primary, if not sole, purpose of the state is to protect and improve the race. That is, Hitler's state wasn't ethnonationalist as a matter of happenstance but centrally, by design. In that regard, given the realities of Europe and the world...