When the 25 points of the Programme of the NSDAP was presented on February 24, 1920, two points in particular were highlighted by Adolf Hitler as the essence of the program. They became the essential slogans for the Party, “THE COMMON INTEREST BEFORE SELF – THE SPIRIT OF THE PROGRAM ….ABOLITION OF THE THRALLDOM OF INTEREST – THE CORE OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM.”
“Common Interest Before Self” expressed the essence of Nationalism, seeing all citizens of the nation vital members in the fostering of the whole. This was what Hitler spoke about as the epitomy of Aryan man, not that they had any higher intellectual ability, but the instinct of self-preservation as evidenced in all sentient creatures, was sublimated to the point where fulfillment of this duty of care to the Folk’s interests fulfilled the individual, and fueled the personality achieving its greatest potential in bringing benefit to the Folk.
“Abolition of the Thralldom of Interest” was the core of the Socialist aspect of the program, underlining all of the other economic aspects of the program. Feder wrote,
“Once these two points are achieved, it means a victory of the approaching universalist ordering of society in ‘the true State’ over the present-day separation of state, nation and economics under the corrupting influence of the individualist theory of society as now constructed.”
“Break down the thralldom of interest” is our war cry
The State in itself was not the end, but only the means for securing the benefit of the Folk. Instead, in many people’s minds the State was seen as an end in itself, leading to the oppression of the working classes and protecting the pirated gains of bankers and stock exchange speculators. Economics, rather than being subjugated to the preservation of the Folk, became the vehicle for reckless private enrichment and for the lowest political profiteering.
Those who had come to hold the reins of economic power in Germany through the endless income of interest gave no thought to the Folk (of which, in truth, they were merely foreign elements, taking no identity with them, because they were not of them). Without this intrinsic quality of: Common Interest Before Self, no amount of legislation could provide any high moral bond of union. The power of money, most ruthless of all powers, came to hold absolute control, and exercised a corrupting, destroying influence on state, nation, society, morals, drama, literature and on all matters of morality, less easy to estimate.
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