Paetel's View on Race
While Hiterlites like to claim a sort of inborn superiority merely based on their existence, National Bolshevism and Karl Otto Paetel, while being unequivocally ethnocentric, dispense with such an idea and instead assert that every group of people and by extension, the individuals that embody that race must prove their merit, not merely claim it reflexively. From the National Bolshevist Manifesto p. 34 & 60:
"Revolutionary nationalism resists the use of the racial-question [Rassenfrage] for the establishment of a born-to-rule master-race; rejects race-dogmatism as a criterion for foreign-policy; and in the construction of socialism demands as evidence for the value of race not entitlement but achievement."
"Even the question of ‘Nordic leadership-substance’ could only be decided like so: through performance for the struggle of the entire Volk. If Nordic blood is indeed the creative, state-building, heroic element in the German Volk, then the revolution undoubtedly clears the way for it to prove its leadership capabilities for itself."
Unlike National Bolshevists or Strasserists, the Nazi pats themself on the back for being "Aryan", even though their personal accomplishments may be next to nothing due to attachment to past perceived accomplishment. Let us elaborate on the Hitlerian attitude in contrast, Mein Kampf p.289+:
"The Aryan is the Prometheus of mankind, whose bright forehead the divine spark of genius has at all times given light and heat and who has always kindled anew the fire of knowledge which provided the beacon for the advance of human progress.”
“If we were to divide mankind into three groups, the founders of culture, the bearers of culture, the destroyers of culture, only the Aryan could be considered as the representative of the first group.”
“It is futile to haggle over the question of which race or races originated human civilization, but from evidence before us it is a simple matter to see that culture today is almost exclusively Aryan-produced.”
While people of European descent have had an indisputably disproportionate contribution to humanity, Hitler downplays contributions from MENA and East Asian cultures, as well as sets the precedent for an innate, unearned sense of superiority in his followers. Contrast this Paetel, who demands active, consistent proof to justify pride at all times. A race does not merely rest on their laurels, demanding recognition for past deeds, but is expected to repeatedly prove itself in the real world outside of history and myth. Unlike National Socialism, there are no free tickets to pride in other identitarian systems. It is earned, not entitled by birth. This is a prime example of why Hitler and his followers thought their idiotic war could be won. They overestimated their own capabilities and underestimated their opponents, a trend shared by the overwhelming majority of fools that follow such an ideology today.
