Readings on Fascism and National Socialism: Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of ColoradoVarious
Philosophy
Readings on Fascism and National Socialism: Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado
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Fascism; National socialism
Huber (document 1, _post_ p. 155) describes the tasks of the party in
similar terms. He states that the party is charged with the "education
of the people to a political people" through the awakening of the
political consciousness of each individual; the inculcation of a
"uniform political philosophy," that is, the teaching of Nazi
principles; "the selection of leaders," including the choice and
training of especially promising boys to be the Führers of the future;
and the shaping of the "political will of the people" in accordance
with the Führer's aims.[66]
The educational tasks of the party are stressed by Beck, who develops
the idea that the _Volk_ can be divided into three main groups, "a
supporting, a leading, and a creative class."[67] It is the duty of
the leading class, that is, the party, from which the creative class
of leaders is drawn, to provide for the education of the supporting
class.
Every member of the body of the people must belong to the
politically supporting class, that is, each one who bears
within himself the basic racial, spiritual, and mental
values of the people ... Here no sort of leading or creative
activity is demanded but only a recognition of the leading
and creative will ... Only those are called to leadership in
political life who have recognized the community-bound law
of all human life in purest clarity and in the all-embracing
extent of its validity and who will place all the powers of
their personal lives with the help of a politically moral
character in the service of the formation of community life
... From the politically leading class arise the politically
creative personalities. These are the mysterious elemental
forces which are beyond all explanation by human reason and
which through their action and by means of the living idea
within them give to the community of the people an
expression which is fresh, young, and eternal. Here is the
fulfilment of the highest and purest political humanity ...
The education of the socialist personality is essentially
the forming of the politically supporting class within the
German people and the encouragement of those political
tendencies which make a man a political leader. To educate
to political creativeness is just as impossible as to
educate to genius. Education can only furnish the spiritual
atmosphere, can only prepare the spiritual living-space for
the politically creative personality by forming a uniform
political consciousness in the socialistic personality, and
in the development of politically creative personalities it
can at the most give special attention to those values of
character and spirit which are of decisive importance for
the development of this personality.[68]
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