Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

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 self-evident that so general a statement of the meaningful content of a folkish philosophy
can be easily 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.
This is the goal pursued by the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
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