"The liberal professes to do all he does for the sake of the people; but
he destroys the sense of community that should bind outstanding men to
the people from which they spring. The people should naturally regard
the outstanding man, not as an enemy but as a representative sample of
themselves.
Liberalism is the party of upstarts who have insinuated themselves between the people and its big men. Liberals feel themselves as isolated individuals, responsible to nobody. They do not share the nation's traditions, they are indifferent to its past and have no ambition for its future. They seek only their own personal advantage in the present. Their dream is the great International, in which the differences of peoples and languages, races and cultures will be obliterated.
Liberalism is the party of upstarts who have insinuated themselves between the people and its big men. Liberals feel themselves as isolated individuals, responsible to nobody. They do not share the nation's traditions, they are indifferent to its past and have no ambition for its future. They seek only their own personal advantage in the present. Their dream is the great International, in which the differences of peoples and languages, races and cultures will be obliterated.
Sceptically they ask: "What are we living for?" Cynically they answer: "Just for the sake of living!"
Liberalism has undermined civilization, has destroyed religions, has ruined nations. Primitive peoples know no liberalism. The world is for them a simple place where one man shares with another. Instinctively they conceive existence as a struggle in which all those who belong in any way to one group must defend themselves against those who threaten them.
Great states have always held liberalism in check. When a great individual arose amongst them who gave the course of their history a new direction, they have been able to incorporate him into their tradition, to make his achievements contribute to their continuity.
Liberalism has undermined civilization, has destroyed religions, has ruined nations. Primitive peoples know no liberalism. The world is for them a simple place where one man shares with another. Instinctively they conceive existence as a struggle in which all those who belong in any way to one group must defend themselves against those who threaten them.
Great states have always held liberalism in check. When a great individual arose amongst them who gave the course of their history a new direction, they have been able to incorporate him into their tradition, to make his achievements contribute to their continuity.
Nations who had ceased to feel themselves a people, who had lost the
state-instinct, gave liberalism its opportunity. The masses allowed an
upper crust to form on the surface of the nation. Not the old natural
aristocracy whose example had created the state; but a secondary
stratum, a dangerous, irresponsible, ruthless, intermediate stratum
which had thrust itself between. The result was the rule of a clique
united only by self-interest who liked to style themselves the pick of
the population, to conceal the fact that they consisted of immigrants
and nouveaux riches, of freedmen and upstarts."
- Arthur Moeller van den Bruck
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