Nationalism and Culture by Rudolf Rocker

Author:Rudolf Rocker [Rocker, Rudolf]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: General, History, Sociology, Social Science, Political Science, Political Ideologies, Culture, Multicultural Education, Nationalism and nationality, Education, Nationalism, Nationalism & Patriotism
ISBN: 9781551640945
Publisher: Black Rose Books
Published: 1997-07-01T03:18:38.700055+00:00

^* Werner Sombart, Handler und Heldcn, Patriotische Besinnungen. Munich, 1915, p. 143.

and declares that they had no understanding of the sentiment of honor— as we see, the purest "Oriental."

For Chamberlain, Christianity is the highest expression of the Aryan spirit J in the Christian faith the Germanic soul reveals itself in its true profundity and divorces itself most definitely from every Semitic religious concept. For Judaism is the complete antithesis of the Christian religion j any philosophic synthesis of the Jewish and the Germanic mind, even in religion, is quite unthinkable. On the other hand, Albrecht Wirth sees in Christianity a product of the Jewish-Hellenic mind, which undertook, as the "despised Jew fled from the misery of the outer world, to erect about it a higher inner world." ^'^ While Eugen Diihring condemns Christianity utterly because by its influence the Judaizing of the Aryan mind was accomplished.^* Ludwig Neuner accuses the Frankish kings of having stolen from our ancestors and utterly destroyed "the ancient, indigenous faith that sprang from a childlike view of nature" and forcing on them instead "a harsh system of religion of outspokenly international character." ^® Then Erich Mahlmeister assures us, in his essay. Fur deutsche Geistesjreiheit: "Christianity is of an unmanly, slavish nature, directly opposed to the German nature." On the person of Christ he passes judgment thus: "The outcast traitor to his country of a hatred race is the God before whom the German is expected to bend his knee."

Gunther, Hauser, Clauss, see in Protestantism a spiritual movement of the Nordic race, and Lapouge, as well, sees in it "the attempt to adapt Christianity to the specific type of the Aryan race." Chamberlain, too, is a decided opponent of the Catholic church and refers in his Grundlagen to the Semitic origin of the Papacy. He sees in the latter the exact antithesis of the Germanic spirit, which recognizes no priestly caste and is emotionally opposed to a world hierarchy. For him, therefore, the Reformation is the revolt of Nordic man against the Semitic Caesarism of Rome and one of the greatest deeds of Germanism in general. Against this, Woltmann exalts the Papacy as the glorffication of Germanism and takes great pains to demonstrate the Germanic descent of most of the popes. He was especially impressed by that "child of the Goths," Hildebrandt, who sat on the papal throne as Gregory VII and was the real founder of the temporal power of the Papacy. Otto Hauser, however, explains this patent confusion of the Germanic spirit as follows: "It is characteristic of the power hunger of Nordic mail that he is able to employ all his force in every undertaking and unhesitatingly makes use of every means to an end. We know how extremely frivolous was the attitude of many of the

" Das Auf und Ab der Vblker. Leipzig, 1920, p. 84.

^® Die Judenfrage als Frage der Rassensch'ddlichkeit fiir Existenz, SiUe und Kultur der Volker. See also, Sache, Leben und Feinde. ^' Deutsche Gott-Natur-Kunde.

popes toward the Papacy and Christianity.

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