My struggle / Adolf Hitler.

  • Mein Kampf
Date:
1935
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    J37 The young Movement is in its essence and organiza¬ tion anti-parliamentarian, i.e., it rejects, in principle and in its composition, any theory of the majority vote, implying that the leader is degraded to being merely there to carry out the orders and opinions of others. In small things and great, the Movement stands for the principle of unquestioned authority of the leader, com¬ bined with fullest responsibility. It is one of the main tasks of the Movement to make this principle the deciding one not only within its own ranks but also throughout the State. Finally, the Movement does not consider it its duty to maintain or restore any particular form of State in opposition to any other one, but rather to create those fundamental principles without which neither Republic nor Monarchy can exist in permanency. Its mission is not to found a Monarchy or establish a Republic, but to create a Germanic State. The question of the internal organization of the Movement is not one of principle but of expediency. The best organization is one which inserts least, and not most, machinery of State between the leaders and the individuals depending from them. For the task of organization is to communicate a definite idea—which always originates in the brain of one single man—to the general public, and also to see to its conversion from theory into reality. When the number of adherents increases, small affiliated groups are to be formed, which represent local nucleus cells in the future political organization. The internal organization of the Movement should be on the following lines : Concentration at first of the whole work in one spot —Munich. A staff of adherents of undoubted relia¬ bility to be trained and a school formed for future pro¬ paganda of the idea. The necessary authority to be