The book itself is a slog. Hitler felt a need to reiterate every point he writes at least 2-3 times in 2-3 different ways throughout the entire text. Even a small detail about his family life is extended to a whole paragraph. It reads like someone ruminating on everything bad thats ever happened to them over and over and trying to reframe it in a positive light. His political agenda towards Social Democracy, Parliamentary Government, and any other political opinion he picked up in Vienna characterize everything from one single dogmatic perspective. There is no chance in his mind that he is wrong about any of this and all of his criticisms boil down to his personal experiences and opinions. At no point in this text was there a real criticism of substance that had not already been stated by someone else. It reads like that annoying kid in your middle school civics class who has really politically divisive parents, so every socratic seminar he steamrolls people validating his own points to himself. This pattern in his writing is cemented in his opinions on intellectualism and reading itself. He literally writes in that during his time reading as much as possible he became of the belief reading should be done to enforce ones own worldview. Hitler views dogma as certainty that, whether right or wrong, can unite a group of people towards a common goal and therefore is more productive than supposedly needless discussion and careful consideration. His views on the state as a pure function of the people represented by the state seems to be sort of a nice thought until, in the second volume, he makes it very clear “the people” are only the Aryan Race. Hitler’s views on eugenics and race are stupid enough that it only makes sense to someone with a very limited amount of information about the outside world, and therefore will lean towards bias against anything outside of their small world. He directly states genetic diversity and “hybridization” leads to the degeneration of the conditions of a race which create culture and “spirit”. While it is obviously scientifically untrue it is interesting the way he discusses race as if it has some kind of inherent magical energy. He speaks about Aryans as if they are chosen to have a purer and more worthwhile culture in their ancestry than any other race. It is for some lines less scientific and more mystical. This falls in line with Nazi Occultism, “Vril”, and Nazi alternative history. It is fascinating that symbols of those concepts are moreso present in alt right circles than ever before, with many neo-nazi groups sheltering their bigotry under the guise of pagan religion and only neo nazis fixating on the conspiratorial “secret history of the aryan race”. Final rating, inferiority complex/10. I read all his racial diatribes in Eric Cartman’s voice.