The Interchangeability of Mass Movements

Hoffer talks about the interchangeability of mass movements. Hitler looked on German communist as potential national socialists, he says. Captain Rome boasted that he could turn reddest communist into a glowing nationalist in four weeks. On the other hand, Carl Radick looked on Nazi brown shirts as reserved for future communist recruits. In one family, one member would join the revolutionaries, the other, the Zionist,. Dr. Heim Weisman quotes the saying of his mother: Whatever happens, I shall be well off.