Racial Consciousness (@Nature_and_Race)

On National Socialism (Maxed out the character limit, still incomplete) 1 National Socialism, first and foremost, above all else, is a philosophy. Not an economic system. A philosophy predicated on a foundation of Nature: Understanding natural laws and natural order, and applying those laws and order to human society and civilization. It's a philosophy that recognizes the fundamental and uttermost vital importance of the racial component of the human condition: Seeing race as the very origin of all human culture, and that pure culture can only come from pure race. To mix race is to corrupt pure culture. 2 The economy was the very last point of concern in the NS philosophy. NS Germany didn't even have a formally defined economic system. They just figured it out as they went along (and it worked miracles, seeing as Germany was pulled out of the catastrophe of the Versailles Treaty, and thrust into first-world superpower within about four years). The Reichsmark, the German currency, was backed by labor, rather than gold or oil. It was revolutionary in its novelty. After WWI and the Versailles Treaty, Germany was completely bankrupt. Inflation was so bad it literally cost something like 17-trillion dollars just to buy a carton of eggs, a gallon of milk, and a loaf of bread. No exaggeration. So when Hitler took power, he started completely over from scratch, creating an entirely new currency. He did what a lot of countries do during times of economic rebirth: He instituted a number of public works projects, the most famous of which was the Reich Autobahn. He concluded that the project would cost roughly four-billion marks to complete, and that became the foundation of the new economy. 52-thousand workers were then paid that amount over the course of the project, and they revamped the economy by doing what workers do: they bought groceries, clothing, and other life essentials, dispersing those four-billion marks out into the German economy. Beyond that, their economy was based on agriculture and industry, like most first-world countries. Farms and factories were almost exclusively privately owned, and laws were put in place to ensure that they remained privately owned. As were all small shops, from grocery stores to clothing stores to furniture stores, as well as every type of repair shop of the age. 3 Land ownership was encouraged in Germany. And again, laws were put into place to ensure that all land remained private. Even in the event that a landowner passed away and didn't have any family to will his property to, auctions were held to ensure that the land was put back into the hands of private citizens, and was never allowed to be bought up by corporations or government institutions. NS Germany had virtually no welfare system to speak of. Most of the welfare provided to the poor and the disabled was generated through public fundraising events like the Winterhilfswerk (WHW) program. Hitler's most memorable public statement on the subject was "German people, help yourselves!" And it was insanely successful (I even have a bunch of little trinkets from the WHW (pins, buttons, ribbons, keychain booklets, etc.) Did they have free education and healthcare? Yeah. Were they all allowed to just take any old random classes they wanted for fun and piss away a bunch of government funding? No. University courses were decided based on aptitude. If a citizen showed aptitude in mathematics and sciences, then they went to institutions of higher learning. If a citizen wasn't very strong in intellectual capacity, but was good with his hands, he went to trade school and explored which trades he was most skilled at. 4 NS is both collectivist and individualist. How's that possible? Simple. In the NS philosophy, the good of the people, of the Nation, is more important than the ego of the individual. So everyone serves the greater good above their own personal wants and desires. It's a philosophy of selflessness, rather than of selfishness, like the current weltanschauung. However, the NS philosophy recognizes the fundamental importance of the individual personality, and that all products of genius are the products the individual genius himself. You're encouraged to be every bit of who you are, yet still putting your people first above all else. 5 The NS philosophy is based on hierarchy, which is how Nature orders all animal groups. Only those biologically most gifted in the way of leadership should be allowed to lead. Anything else is an anchor to the progress and upward development of culture and civilization. Only the best leaders can allow the people, the Nation, to reach their dormant innate potential. So it's a philosophy of centralized command, at least in the beginning phases of its establishment. However, as Hitler stated in Mein Kampf, National Socialism is a means to an end, not an end in itself. The end goal is bringing about an era where the Nation can begin to self govern, rather than be lorded over.