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III:
COMMUNITY
The instinct
to preserve one’s own kind is the first cause for the formation
of human communities . . .
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I:4 |
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question of instilling national pride in a people is, among other
things, primarily a question of creating healthy social conditions
as a basis for the possibility of educating the individual. For
only those who through school and upbringing learn to know the cultural,
economic, but above all the political greatness of their own fatherland
can and will acquire inner pride in the privilege of belonging to
such a people. |
I:2 |
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| Social
activity must never and on no account see its task in inane welfare
schemes, as ridiculous as they are useless, but rather in the elimination
of basic deficiencies in the organization of our economic and cultural
life that must—or in any event can—lead to the debasement of the
individual. |
I:2 |
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| Social
endeavor . . . can raise no claim whatsoever to gratitude, since
its function is not to dispense favors but to restore rights. |
I:2 |
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| Indeed,
the possibility of preserving a healthy farming community as a foundation
for the whole nation can never be valued highly enough. Many
of our present-day woes are simply the result of an unhealthy relationship
between our rural and city population. A solid stock of small
and moderate-size farmers has at all times been the best defense
against social ills such as we possess today. |
I:4 |
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. . The racial state will have to arrive at a basically different
attitude toward the concept of work. It will if necessary—even
by education extending over centuries—have to break with the nonsense
of despising physical activity. On principle it will have
to evaluate the individual man not by the kind of work he does,
but by the form and quality of his achievement. |
II:2 |
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evaluation of a man must be based on the manner in which he fulfills
the task entrusted to him by the community. For the activity
which an individual performs is not the purpose of his existence,
but merely a means towards it. It is more important that he
develop and ennoble himself as a man; but this he can only do within
the framework of his cultural community, which must always rest
upon the foundation of a state. He must make his contribution
to the preservation of this foundation. The form of this contribution
is determined by Nature; his duty is simply to return to the racial
community with honest effort what it has given him. He who
does this deserves the highest esteem and the highest respect. |
II:2 |
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. . Honest work, no matter of what kind, is never a disgrace. |
I:2 |
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| The
dedication of every National Socialist is demonstrated first of
all by his readiness to work and by his diligence and ability in
accomplishing the work entrusted to him by the racial community. |
II:11 |
