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Quotes from The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West — Hermann Rauschning

d. 1982 Germany

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Nothing is more mistaken than to talk of a ‘totalitarian State’ or a “classless” society within the realm of a nihilist revolution.

The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West (1939)

The radical dynamism into which National Socialism has developed is a dangerous, destructive fever, which spreads at an uncanny rate.

The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West (1939)

Nobody took it [Mein Kampf] seriously, nobody could, for nobody could make head or tail out of it.

The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West (1939)

The nihilist foreign policy of the National Socialism of today uses ideas as a mask, and has no philosophical basis.

The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West (1939)

Nothing was more remote from the future of the Reich in 1932-33 than a Bolshevik revolution or even a political revolt from the Left.

The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West (1939)

It took three attempts in Germany to enable a coup d'état of nationalist forces to achieve such success that it could be given the character of an irresistible mass movement, a national revolution. All three attempts used the same tactics of ‘grafting revolutionary violence on constitutional legality.’

The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West (1939)

The control of the remnants of the State by a party (‘the Party commands the State’) may be regarded as a phase in the process of the dissolution of the old forces of order by the revolution. This process ends with the absorption of the State and its functions by the ‘organization for rule by violent means.’

The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West (1939)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hermann Rauschning (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.