Hitler’s views at first seemed like they were consistent and then suddenly switched up into a totally different viewpoint.
There were so many instances where he was so close to becoming a socialist or even a communist because of his experiences with being poor and struggling to find a job.There were also moments where he would notice the extreme wealth disparities in Vienna. He also noticed no matter how good of a skilled worker you were, there was still a chance for you to fall to rock bottom and fall back into poverty. This would have been the driving force if his hatred for Jewish people wasn’t to the extreme and reinforced by society. Considering how many people today see his views as extreme it was surprising to see how he thought the terms: seizing the means of production and wage theft were too extreme for him. At first he tried to stay away from politics and had centrist ideas. Slowly became more and more reactionary due to him being able to be easily influenced by these ideals.
Around page 37, he describes arguing with his construction colleagues about what his stances were. In the footnotes, they also mention how he most likely wasn’t working in construction to begin with. He was talking about how their ideas were too radical when mentioning that they need to seize the means of production. The only thing that they did was talk about how the structures put in place, the ones that he already had a personal gripe with, into terms of how to solve some of those issues.
He also says how he is against hierarchies (class ones) because of how differently they were treated. Then he decides it is better to create a class system involving how pure of German he thought they were.
