The foundation of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party was the first sign of any Movement whose aim was not, like that of the bourgeois Parties, a mechan¬ ical restoration of the past, but setting up of an organ¬ ically nationalist State in place of the present senseless State mechanism. True to its conviction of the paramount importance of the new doctrine, the young Movement naturally considers that no sacrifice is too great in order to attain that object.
It has happened time and again in the world’s history that a period of terror based on a world-theory has never been broken by formal State authority, but always has given way to a new and different world-theory, equally bold and determined. This may hurt the feelings of champions of States in official positions, but that will not do away with the facts.
The State is being overrun by Marxism. Seeing that it gave in unconditionally to Marxism on Novem¬ ber 9th, 1918, it will not rise up all of a sudden to-morrow to subdue it ; on the contrary, the bourgeois noodles, who occupy Ministers’ seats, already babble of the necessity of not taking action against the workers, showing that by “workers” they are thinking of Marxism.
I have already described how, for the practical purposes of our young Movement, a corps for the pro¬ tection of meetings was slowly formed, and that this gradually assumed the character of a body of troops for keeping order and was looking forward to taking shape as an organizing body.
At that time this body was at first merely a guard for meetings. Its earliest tasks were limited to making it possible to hold meetings, which otherwise would have been stopped dead by our opponents. These men were trained merely for attack, not because, as was asserted in foolish German Nationalist circles, their ideal was the rubber life-preserver, but because they realized that there was no chance for ideals if the defender