Hitler built the Nazi party on a deliberate worldview foundation, borrowed from Marxism

Evidence

The role of the Weltanschauung in the formation of the Nazi movement has been stressed many times by Hitler himself. In Mein Kampf, it is interesting to note that he pretends to have understood the necessity of basing a party on a Weltanschauung through the superiority of the Marxist parties. Book II, chapter i: “Weltanschauung and Party.” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2592

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Weltanschauung here functions as a key concept for the Islamophobia toolkit: a total worldview substituting for class politics, adopted deliberately in imitation of Marxism.
  • XREF: Connects to Gramscian hegemony/common-sense material the reader is building toward in the Foundations Module. — connects to: Vienna simultaneously hosted Hitler’s antisemitism model and Austro-Marxist socialism — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 203