New Discourses The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 10: Blood, Soil, and the Racial State
Nov 26, 2025
Dive into Hitler's chilling vision for the Nazi state, emphasizing race preservation as its core purpose. Explore his critique of existing state theories and the disdain for national conservatives who prioritize culture over biology. Discover how he conceptualized the state as a protector of racial purity and the dire consequences of eugenics and purges he advocated. Lindsay exposes Hitler's grandiose ideas of a racially unified German world and the catastrophic failures of those beliefs. A stark reminder of the dangers of extreme ideology.
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State As Instrument Of Racial Preservation
- Hitler frames the state as the tool to preserve and improve race rather than to maintain order or promote economics.
- He equates civilization's survival with the survival of a superior racial stock and rejects other state theories.
Racialism As Socio-Spiritual Idealism
- Lindsay links Nazi racialism to a socio-spiritual Gnostic ideal: the race carries culture and the state must nurture it.
- He emphasizes how this idealism parallels communist and other totalizing worldviews in structure, not content.
Hitler's Political Rise Summarized
- Lindsay recounts Hitler's rise from early German Workers' Party member to chancellor and dictator.
- He notes Mein Kampf was written in prison and preceded Hitler's consolidation of power in 1933.
