The Liberal Politics Of Adolf Hitler

The Liberal Politics Of Adolf Hitler is a novel by the author John King, published in 2016. Three essays led into its release – The left wing case for leaving the EU and Flying The Flag (both in New Statesman), and The People Versus The Elite (Penguin). A supporter of British withdrawal from the European Union, King appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions at this time, along with the author Frederick Forsyth.

The Liberal Politics Of Adolf Hitler is set approximately fifty years into the future, when a European superstate has been formed and the individual countries of Europe officially dissolved. Power is centralised in the hands of a corporate-driven elite based in Brussels and Berlin. Controllers describe this masked dictatorship as New Democracy. Elections are a thing of the past and the cultures of the old nation states are recycled in distorted ways. Across Europe, people fight back, with the two main British resistance groups being GB45 and Conflict.

The novel looks at globalization, the nature of democracy, the manipulation of language and the future uses of technology. There is also an animal-rights thread to the story which, in an interview with 3am Magazine, the author linked to his next novel, Slaughterhouse Prayer.

Trade Unionists Against The EU called the book: “Brave, imaginative fiction. An important political novel that is supremely relevant to our turbulent times.” 3AM Magazine: “A timely and provocative satire.” Marc Glendening of The Democracy Movement: “One of the most bizarre and wonderful things I have read. It has the dreamlike quality of a David Lynch movie. A cross between Brave New World, A Clockwork Orange and Nineteen Eighty-Four.” Garry Bushell: “A great read set in a dystopian future.” Streets Sounds: “Blade Runner meets The Clash. Punk fiction at its very best.” The Morning Star: “King steadily constructs, layer by layer, an increasingly believable world where a combination of intrusive technology, ruthlessness and effectively bland public relations has ensured the domination of the majority’s thoughts and actions.”