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 conflict. If
that were not so, the German people ought already to have gained
a gigantic victory instead of finding themselves on the brink of
the abyss. The international ideology achieved success because it
was organized in a militant political party which was always
ready to take the offensive. If hitherto the ideas opposed to the
international concept have had to give way before the latter the
reason is that they lacked a united front to fight for their cause. A
doctrine which forms a definite outlook on life cannot struggle
and triumph by allowing the right of free interpretation of its
general teaching, but only by defining that teaching in certain
articles of faith that have to be accepted and incorporating it in a
political organization.
Therefore I considered it my special duty to extract from the
extensive but vague contents of a general world view the ideas
which were essential and give them a more or less dogmatic
form. Because of their precise and clear meaning, these ideas are
suited to the purpose of uniting in a common front all those who
are ready to accept them as principles. In other words: The
National Socialist German Workers' Party extracts the essential
principles from the general conception of the world which is
based on the folk idea. On these principles it establishes a
political doctrine which takes into account the practical realities
of the day, the nature of the times, the available human material
and all its deficiencies. Through this political doctrine it is
possible to bring great masses of the people into an organization
which is constructed as rigidly as it could be. Such an
organization is the main preliminary that is necessary for the
final triumph of this world view.
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