Opinion of this quote

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

The controversy over Hitler’s personality becomes the sharper the more the secret of his success is sought in himself. In the meantime, another political figure would be difficult to find that is in the same measure the focus of anonymous historic forces. Not every exasperated petty bourgeois could have become Hitler, but a particle of Hitler is lodged in every exasperated petty bourgeois.

[Dr. MB]

It's well known that small business owners are the backbone of fascism, if push comes to shove.

[Aurelius2]

Utterly deranged

[Vosem]

Hitler came from the proletariat, not from the petty bourgeoisie. And I disagree: the petty bourgeoisie have always formed the backbone of popular resistance to the government setting goals for society, which is necessary (although not sufficient) for fascism.

[CumbrianLefty]

Alois Hitler was a civil servant, even less "proletarian" then than it is now.

Herr Schicklgruber had a perfectly respectable background, that doesn't explain how he turned out. And that the petit-bourgeoisie have been arguably *the* major support for both fascism a century ago and its various offshoots now, is simply an easily observable matter of record.

[Cassius]

Meaningless. You could find a particle of Lawrence Durrell, Jeffrey Bernard, Joe Strummer and Vladimir Lenin lodged in the soul of every ‘exasperated petty bourgeois’.