which would honestly restore the German worker to his own people and rescue him from the madness of internationalism, must be in definite opposition to the attitude, ruling among great employ¬ ers, which interprets common nationality in the sense of helpless economic subjection of the employee to the employer.
The worker sins against the common nationality when, without regarding the common welfare and preservation of the nation’s economy, he makes extor¬ tionate demands from confidence in his strength, just as gravely as the employer does when he misuses the working strength of the nation by inhuman methods of exploitation and makes extortionate profits out of the sweat of millions.
Thus, the reservoir from which the young Move¬ ment should draw its adherents will be, in the first place, the body of workers. Its task will be to deliver them from the folly of internationalism, free them from their social poverty, raise them out of their cultural x36 MY STRUGGLE depression, and convert them into a factor in the com¬ munity, which shall be solid, valuable and filled with national feelings and aspirations.