s a response to Communism, which Hitler opposed vehemently. Hitler analyzes Marxism in Mein Kampf and shows that he has a different conception of the structure of society. He says that he has studied those who founded Marxism, and one of the reasons he opposes Marxism is because Marx was Jewish. He also opposes its ideology, though much of what he says is clearly centered on Marx's Jewishness rather than on the elements of Marxism as a philosophy, as can be seen when he says that Marx's writings "taught me to understand the language of the Jewish people, who speak in order to conceal or at least to veil their thoughts. He then notes:
The Jewish doctrine of Marxism rejects the aristocratic principle of Nature and replaces the eternal privilege of power and strength by the mass of number and their dead weight.
For Hitler, Marxism is wrong because it has a political ideology that views humanity as a mass and that is also opposed to his conception of personality:
Thus it denies the value of personality in man, contests the significance of nationality and ra
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