The Polity

To divine the future of a people it is necessary to probe its past, for only in the acts that it has done is its spirit to be discerned. In times gone by it was possible perhaps to forecast a people’s future out of its past alone, for in such times a people—a nation—could make its destiny unaided and unhampered. In the 20th Century this is no longer possible; nor was it possible in the 19th Century, nor even in the 18th Century. These centuries have been and the 20th Century is daily seeing the world grow one and its peoples impinge upon one another, developing or failing to develop together. To understand the future of the American people, therefore, we must know not only what it has done and why, but we must know also the process through which the world is becoming one and the sort of relationships with one another that exist between peoples in this world.

As a form of order in this world which is becoming one the German National Socialists offer consolidation with a master-race in the social sphere, a totalitarian scheme in the economic sphere and a despotism in the political sphere. The German formula is closely related to the Russian formula which preceded it, the Russian formula having a theoretical background in the socialist internationalism of 19th Century Marxist revolutionaries.