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3. The state is forced to use almost fifty per cent of the revenue from the state forests for the payment of a part of the duties to the church, i.e., it has pawned the forest revenues to the church, as it were. 4. The church is entitled to levy taxes (church taxes) on the basis of the government tax lists. 5. The church is entitled to acquire real estate. This is inviolable and protected by the state. 6. The state is obliged to provide the high church dignitaries, at state expense, with residences "in keeping with their position and dignity." 7. The church, its priests and 28,000 monks enjoy unrestricted freedom in the pursuit of their religious and industrial activities (books, beer, liqueur manufacture). 8. At the universities of München and Würzburg a professor of philosophy and a professor of history must be engaged who have the confidence of the church and who teach only in conformity with the tenets of the church. 9. The state guarantees religious education in the public schools. The bishop or his delegates have the right to object to improprieties in the public religious life of Catholic pupils and to unfavorable or undue [!] influence, and to demand remedy from the state authorities. According to a careful estimate, the concordat guaranteed to the Catholic church in Bavaria, in the form of cash, real estate, tax exemption, etc., a sum of one billion marks. The state of Bavaria paid to the Catholic church thirteen million marks in 1916; 28,468,400 marks in 1929; and 26,050,250 marks in 1931. [Continued p. 102] [102] The historical element, the dogmata, become meaningless if it is possible to replace their function by something else which is equally effective. National Socialism also wants the "religious experience." It only wants to put it on a different basis. What, then, is this "everlasting experience?" 2. THE FIGHT AGAINST "KULTURBOLSCHEWISMUS" Nationalistic and family feelings are closely interlinked with more or less vague, more or less mystical, religious feelings. The literature on this subject is enormous. A detailed academic analysis of this field is—at least for the present—impossible. We go back to our main problem: If fascism builds so successfully on the mystical thinking and feeling of the masses, then it can be fought only if one comprehends mysticism and if one fights the mystical infestation of the masses with correct educational and medical measures. The progressive development of a scientific Weltanschauung is not sufficient because it is so slow that it falls farther and farther behind the mystical infestation. It does so because it has not comprehended mysticism. The scientific enlightenment of the masses was restricted in the main to the unmasking of the evil deeds of church officials. This left the overwhelming majority of the masses untouched. Scientific enlightenment appealed only to the intellect of the masses, not to their emotions. If, however, an individual has mystical feelings, then any unmasking of a church potentate leaves him cold, any presentation of the ways in which the state finances the church with the workers' pennies impresses him no more than the historical analysis of religion by Marx and Engels. True, the atheistic movements tried to employ emotional means also, such as the youth festivals arranged by the German freethinkers. In spite of all these attempts, the Christian youth organizations counted about thirty times as many members as those _____________________________________________________ The service of the church to the state, then, must pay. The concordat between the Reich and the Vatican in 1933 did not result in any new, masspsychologically important relationships between church and state. The antisexual function of the church remained intact. [103] of the Communist and Social Democratic parties. Between 1930 and 1932, the Christian youth organizations had about one and a half million members, the Communist about 50,000, the Social Democratic about 60,000, the National Socialist about 40,000. According to the "Proletarische Freidenkerstimme" of April, 1932, the figures were as follows: Der katholische Jungmännerverbund Deutschlands 386,879 Der Zentralverband katholischer Jungfrauenvereinigungen Deutschlands 800,000 Der Verband katholischer Junggesellenvereine 93,000 Der Verband katholischer weiblicher süddeutscher Jugendvereine 25,000
Der Verband katholischer Büchervereine Bayerns 35,220 Der Verband katholischer Schüler der höheren Lehranstalten "Neudeutschland" 15,290 Katholischer Jugendbund werktätiger Mädchen Deutschlands 8,000 Reichsverband deutscher Windhorstbünde 10,000 An important point is the social composition. In the Catholic Young Men's Association it was as follows: Workers 45.6% Artisans 21.6% Agricultural Youth 18.7% Business 5.9% Students 4.8% Salaried employees 3.3% The industrial workers constituted the overwhelming majority. The age distribution in 1929 was the following: 14-17 years 51.0% 17-21 years 28.3% 21-25 years 13.5% Above 25 years 7.1% That is, four fifths of the members were of adolescent and post-adolescent age. [104] While in the struggle for winning over these youths the Communists stressed the class angle at the expense of ideological problems, the Catholic organization did the exact opposite: its stand was with the cultural and ideological front. The Communists wrote: If clear-cut, consistent work is done, the cultivation of class consciousness will prove stronger even in young Catholics than the questions of Weltanschauung . . . We must not put ideological problems in the foreground, but the class problem, the misery which binds us all together. The leadership of Catholic youth, on the other hand, wrote (in Jungarbeiter, Nr. 17, 1931): Reaching of young workers and workers' children at an early age is the strongest point and the greatest danger of the Communist party. We welcome the fact that the Reich government . . . opposes the Communist party with the strongest measures. In particular, we expect the German government to take the strongest measures against the Communists' fight against the church and religion. In Berlin there were, in the censorship offices for the "protection of youth" from obscene literature, representatives of eight Catholic organizations. In an appeal of the Catholic Center youth in 1932 we find the following: We demand that the State protect the Christian cultural heritage with all available means against a poisonous press, pornographic literature and against an erotic film production which debases or falsifies the National character . . . The church, then, defended its mystical function at a different point from the focus of attack by the Communist movement. It is the task of freethinking proletarian youth to show to the young Christian workers the role of the church and its organizations in the carrying out of fascisization measures . . . wrote the Freidenkerstimme. The question is, why did the masses [105] of the young Christian workers prove
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now already within the capacity of
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destroying the old bourgeois state
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democracy, nor can there be any "fu
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dear, liberated and new land. The S
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character structure, this attitude
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of people in other communities. Wit
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As a result of the world economic c
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and without bloodshed. This is poss
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foremen, technicians and specialize
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exodus could have been prevented if
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learn to eliminate their own weakne
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irrationalism. The process of socia
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naturally given and which have alwa
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een able to protect work against ex
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idealization as well as the commise
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carry the responsibility for their
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more difficult, more dangerous, mor
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The answer is unequivocal: The lag
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kingdom, clearly represent the act
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dictatorship, may itself undergo a
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evolutionary. But it should be obvi
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article intended to do was to demon
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smuggled into Germany. In the cours
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would grant love, work and knowledg
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eing all bathed in perspiration and
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unnecessary in the factual realm of
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dependent on my own development and
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distinctions," the "establishment o
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self-determination of society is to
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