Lies being taught;
Mein Kampf is unintelligible ravings of a
maniac.
Now the Truth; Read and know. VOLUME II: THE NATIONAL
SOCIALIST MOVEMENT CHAPTER I; WELTANSCHAUUNG AND PARTY-II.
By helping to lift the human being above the
level of mere animal existence, Faith really contributes to consolidate and
safeguard its own existence. Taking humanity as it exists to-day and taking
into consideration the fact that the religious beliefs which it generally holds
and which have been consolidated through our education, so that they serve as
moral standards in practical life, if we should now abolish religious teaching
and not replace it by anything of equal value the result would be that the foundations
of human existence would be seriously shaken. We may safely say that man does
not live merely to serve higher ideals, but that these ideals, in their turn,
furnish the necessary conditions of his existence as a human being. And thus
the circle is closed.
Of course, the word 'religious' implies some
ideas and beliefs that are fundamental. Among these we may reckon the belief in
the immortality of the soul, its future existence in eternity, the belief in
the existence of a Higher Being, and so on. But all these ideas, no matter how
firmly the individual believes in them, may be critically analysed by any person
and accepted or rejected accordingly, until the emotional concept or yearning
has been transformed into an active service that is governed by a clearly
defined doctrinal faith. Such a faith furnishes the practical outlet for
religious feeling to express itself and thus opens the way through which it can
be put into practice.
Without a clearly defined belief, the
religious feeling would not only be worthless for the purposes of human
existence but even might contribute towards a general disorganization, on
account of its vague and multifarious tendencies.
What I have said about the word 'religious'
can also be applied to the term VÖLKISCH. This word also implies certain
fundamental ideas. Though these ideas are very important indeed, they assume
such vague and indefinite forms that they cannot be estimated as having a
greater value than mere opinions, until they become constituent elements in the
structure of a political party. For in order to give practical force to the
ideals that grow out of a WELTANSCHAUUNG and to answer the demands which are a
logical consequence of such ideals, mere sentiment and inner longing are of no
practical assistance, just as freedom cannot be won by a universal yearning for
it. No. Only when the idealistic longing for independence is organized in such
a way that it can fight for its ideal with military force, only then can the
urgent wish of a people be transformed into a potent reality.
Any WELTANSCHAUUNG, though a thousandfold
right and supremely beneficial to humanity, will be of no practical service for
the maintenance of a people as long as its principles have not yet become the
rallying point of a militant movement. And, on its own side, this movement will
remain a mere party until is has brought its ideals to victory and transformed
its party doctrines into the new foundations of a State which gives the
national community its final shape.
If an abstract conception of a general nature
is to serve as the basis of a future development, then the first prerequisite
is to form a clear understanding of the nature and character and scope of this
conception. For only on such a basis can a movement he founded which will be
able to draw the necessary fighting strength from the internal cohesion of its principles
and convictions. From general ideas a political programme must be constructed
and a general WELTANSCHAUUNG must receive the stamp of a definite political
faith. Since this faith must be directed towards ends that have to be attained
in the world of practical reality, not only must it serve the general ideal as
such but it must also take into consideration the means that have to be
employed for the triumph of the ideal. Here the practical wisdom of the
statesman must come to the assistance of the abstract idea, which is correct in
itself. In that way an eternal ideal, which has everlasting significance as a
guiding star to mankind, must be adapted to the exigencies of human frailty so
that its practical effect may not be frustrated at the very outset through those
shortcomings which are general to mankind. The exponent of truth must here go
hand in hand with him who has a practical knowledge of the soul of the people,
so that from the realm of eternal verities and ideals what is suited to the
capacities of human nature may be selected and given practical form. To take
abstract and general principles,
derived from a WELTANSCHAUUNG which is based
on a solid foundation of truth, and transform them into a militant community
whose members have the same political faith--a community which is precisely
defined, rigidly organized, of one mind and one will--such a transformation is the
most important task of all; for the possibility of successfully carrying out
the idea is dependent on the successful fulfilment of that task. Out of the
army of millions who feel the truth of these ideas, and even may understand
them to some extent, one man must arise. This man must have the gift of being
able to expound general ideas in a clear and definite form, and, from the world
of vague ideas shimmering before the minds of the masses, he must formulate
principles that will be as clear-cut and firm as granite. He must fight for
these principles as the only true ones, until a solid rock of common faith and
common will emerges above the troubled waves of vagrant ideas. The general justification
of such action is to be sought in the necessity for it and
the individual will be justified by his
success.
If we try to penetrate to the inner meaning
of the word VÖLKISCH we arrive at the following conclusions:
The current political conception of the world
is that the State, though it possesses a creative force which can build up civilizations,
has nothing in common with the concept of race as the foundation of the State.
The State is considered rather as something which has resulted from economic
necessity, or, at best, the natural outcome of the play of political forces and
impulses. Such a conception of the foundations of the State, together with all
its logical consequences, not only ignores the primordial racial forces that
underlie the State, but it also leads to a policy in which the importance of
the individual is minimized. If it be denied that races differ from one another
in their powers of cultural creativeness, then this same erroneous notion must
necessarily influence our estimation of the value of the individual. The
assumption that all races are alike leads to the assumption that nations and
individuals are equal to one another. And
international Marxism is nothing but the application--effected by the Jew, Karl
Marx--of a general conception of life to a definite profession of political
faith; but in reality that general concept had existed long before the time of Karl
Marx. If it had not already existed as a widely diffused infection the amazing
political progress of the Marxist teaching would never have been possible. In
reality what distinguished Karl Marx from the millions who were affected in the
same way was that, in a world already in a state of gradual decomposition, he
used his keen powers of prognosis to detect the essential poisons, so as to
extract them and concentrate them, with the art of a necromancer, in a solution
which would bring about the rapid destruction of the independent nations on the
globe. But all this was done in the service of his race.
Thus the Marxist doctrine is the concentrated
extract of the mentality which underlies the general concept of life to-day.
For this reason alone it is out of the question and even ridiculous to think
that what is called our bourgeois world can put up any effective fight against Marxism.
For this bourgeois world is permeated with all those same poisons and its conception
of life in general differs from Marxism only in degree and in the character of
the persons who hold it. The bourgeois world is Marxist but believes in the
possibility of a certain group of people--that is to say, the
bourgeoisie--being able to dominate the world, while Marxism itself
systematically aims at delivering the world into the hands of the Jews.
Over against all this, the VÖLKISCH concept
of the world recognizes that the primordial racial elements are of the greatest
significance for mankind. In principle, the State is looked upon only as a
means to an end and this end is the conservation of the racial characteristics
of mankind. Therefore on the VÖLKISCH principle we cannot admit that one race
is equal to another. By recognizing that they are different, the VÖLKISCH
concept separates mankind into races of superior and inferior quality. On the
basis of this recognition it feels bound in conformity with the eternal Will
that dominates the universe, to postulate the victory of the better and
stronger and the subordination of the inferior and weaker. And so it pays
homage to the truth that the principle underlying all Nature's operations is
the aristocratic principle and it believes that this law holds good even down
to the last individual organism. It selects individual values from the mass and
thus operates as an organizing principle, whereas Marxism acts as a
disintegrating solvent. The VÖLKISCH belief holds that humanity must have its
ideals, because ideals are a necessary condition of human existence itself.
But, on the other hand, it denies that an ethical ideal has the right to
prevail if it endangers the existence of a
race that is the standard-bearer of a higher ethical ideal. For in a world
which would be composed of mongrels and negroids all ideals of human beauty and
nobility and all hopes of an idealized future for our humanity would be lost
forever.
On this planet of ours human culture and
civilization are indissolubly bound up with the presence of the Aryan. If he
should be exterminated or subjugated, then the dark shroud of a new barbarian
era would enfold the
earth.
To undermine the existence of human culture
by exterminating its founders and custodians would be an execrable crime in the
eyes of those who believe that the folk-idea lies at the basis of human
existence. Whoever would dare to raise a profane hand against that highest
image of God among His creatures would sin against the bountiful Creator of
this marvel and would collaborate in the expulsion from Paradise.
Hence the folk concept of the world is in
profound accord with Nature's will; because it restores the free play of the
forces which will lead the race through stages of sustained reciprocal
education towards a higher type, until finally the best portion of mankind will
possess the earth and will be free to work in every domain all over the world
and even reach spheres that lie outside the earth.
We all feel that in the distant future many
may be faced with problems which can be solved only by a superior race of human
beings, a race destined to become master of all the other peoples and which
will have at its disposal the means and resources of the whole world.
It is evident that such a general sketch of
the ideas implied in the folk concept of the world may easily be interpreted in
a thousand different ways. As a matter of fact there is scarcely one of our
recent political movements that does not refer at some point to this conception
of the world. But the fact that this conception of the world still maintains
its independent existence in face of all the others proves that their ways of
looking at life are quite difierent from this. Thus the Marxist conception,
directed by a central organization endowed with supreme authority, is opposed
by a motley crew of opinions which is not very impressive in face of the solid
phalanx presented by the enemy. Victory cannot be achieved with such weak
weapons. Only when the international idea, politically organized by Marxism, is
confronted by the folk idea, equally well organized in a systematic way and
equally well led--only then will the fighting energy in the one camp be able to
meet that of the other on an equal footing; and victory will be found on the
side of eternal truth.
But a general conception of life can never be
given an organic embodiment until it is precisely and definitely formulated.
The function which dogma fulfils in religious belief is parallel to the
function which party principles fulfil for a political party which is in the process
of being built up. Therefore, for the conception of life that is based on the
folk idea it is necessary that an instrument be forged which can be used in
fighting for this ideal, similar to the Marxist party organization which clears
the way for internationalism.
And this is the aim which the German National
Socialist Labour Movement pursues.
The folk conception must therefore be
definitely formulated so that it may be organically incorporated in the party.
That is a necessary prerequisite for the success of this idea. And that it is
so is very clearly proved even by the indirect acknowledgment of those who
oppose such an amalgamation of the folk idea with party principles. The very people
who never tire of insisting again and again that the conception of life based
on the folk idea can never be the exclusive property of a single group, because
it lies dormant or 'lives' in myriads of hearts, only confirm by their own
statements the simple fact that the general presence of such ideas in the
hearts of millions of men has not proved sufficient to impede the victory of
the opposing ideas, which are championed by a political party organized on the
principle of class conflict. If that were not so, the German people ought
already to have gained a gigantic victory instead of finding themselves on the
brink of the abyss. The international ideology achieved success because it was organized
in a militant political party which was always ready to take the offensive. If
hitherto the ideas opposed to the international concept have had to give way
before the latter the reason is that they lacked a united front to fight for
their cause. A doctrine which forms a definite outlook on life cannot struggle
and triumph by allowing the right of free interpretation of its general
teaching, but only by defining that teaching in certain articles of faith that
have to be accepted and incorporating it in a political organization.
Therefore I considered it my special duty to
extract from the extensive but vague contents of a general WELTANSCHAUUNG the
ideas which were essential and give them a more or less dogmatic form. Because
of their precise and clear meaning, these ideas are suited to the purpose of uniting
in a common front all those who are ready to accept them as principles. In
other words: The German National Socialist Labour Party extracts the essential
principles from the general conception of the world which is based on the folk
idea. On these principles it establishes a political doctrine which takes into
account the practical realities of the day, the nature of the times, the
available human material and all its deficiencies. Through this political
doctrine it is possible to bring great masses of the people into an
organization which is constructed as rigidly as it could be. Such an
organization is the main preliminary that is necessary for the final triumph of
this ideal.
Adolf Hitler.
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