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This 4 page paper discusses Trotsky's article "What is National Socialism?"; how his opinion differs from Karl Marx, and whether Emile Durkheim could explain some of the ritualistic elements more clearly than Trotsky. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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be a matter of weeks, but neither was it years off. It turns out that he was absolutely correct; the war he feared broke out seven years after he wrote
about the Nazis and their need for ritual. This paper discusses Trotskys article, how his opinion differs from Karl Marx, and whether Emile Durkheim could explain some of the ritualistic
elements more clearly than Trotsky. Discussion Trotsky opens his article with a statement that should answer that age-old question: "Did the German people know what was really going on? Or
was it just the Nazi Party leaders who did all those horrible things?" Trotsky writes: "Na?ve minds think that the office of kingship lodges in the king himself ... As
a matter of fact, the office of kingship is an interrelation between people. The king is king only because the interests and prejudices of millions of people are refracted through
his person" (Trotsky, 1933, p. 399). Hitler in effect became the leader of the German people because they saw reflected in him their own prejudices and interests. Then he
says that a leader who became leader by "will of the people differs from the leader by will of God in that the former is compelled to clear the road
for himself..." (Trotsky, 1933, p. 399). He says that a leader is "the individual supply to meet a collective demand" (Trotsky, 1933, p. 399). Clearly he is thinking of Hitler
here; in fact he mentions him in the next sentence, saying that the "controversy over Hitlers personality becomes the sharper the more the secret of his success is sought in
himself" (Trotsky, 1933, p. 399). However, he also says that Hitler is the product of "anonymous historic forces" so that he is practically the "anointed" leader of Germany; it simply
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