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XI:
THE STATE
The
state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and
advancement of a community of physically and spiritually similar
beings. This preservation comprises first of all existence
as a race, and thereby permits free development of all the forces
dormant in this race.
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II:2 |
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| Thus,
the highest purpose of the racial state is concern for the preservation
of those original racial elements which bestow culture and create
the beauty and dignity of a higher humanity. We, as Aryans,
can conceive of the state only as the living organism of a people,
which not only assures the preservation of this people, but by the
development of its spiritual and ideal abilities leads it to the
highest freedom. |
II:2 |
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| The
racial state . . . must set race in the center of all
life. |
II:2 |
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| .
. . The highest aim of human existence is not preservation of a
state, let alone a government, but the preservation of the race. |
I:3
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| If,
by the instrument of governmental power, a people is being led toward
its destruction, then rebellion is not only the right of every member
of such a people—it is his duty. |
I:3 |
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| For
in the long run systems of government are not maintained by the
pressure of force, but by faith in their soundness and in the truthfulness
with which they represent and advance the interests of a people. |
I:10 |
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| The
best state constitution and state form is that which, with most
genuine certainty, raises the best minds of a racial community to
leading importance and leading influence. |
II:4 |
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| Starting
with the smallest community group and proceeding to the highest
leadership of the entire nation, the state must have the principle
of personality anchored in its organization. |
II:4 |
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| This
principle—absolute responsibility unconditionally coupled with absolute
authority—will gradually breed an elite of leaders such as today,
in this age of irresponsible democracy, is utterly inconceivable. |
II:4 |
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| By
rejecting personal authority and replacing it with the numbers of
a momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority rule sins
against the basic aristocratic idea of Nature . . . |
I:3 |
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| Sooner
will a camel pass through the eye of a needle than a great man be
‘discovered’ by an election. |
I:3 |
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| And
no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will a heroic
decision arise from a hundred cowards. |
I:3 |
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| Today’s
Western democracy is the forerunner of Marxism, which without it
would be unthinkable. It provides this world plague with the
culture in which its germs can spread. |
I:3 |
