“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep, I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”
- Alexander the Great
The laws of nature wills that the strong live and the weak die. Those that survive are clearly strong enough to survive, whereas those that die are clearly not made to survive, yet exist in a point in time. Nature also demands that the community be organized, cohesive, and strong. If the community wished to survive, it had to remain together as a collective body.
The idea behind the community of struggle originates from what the soldiers in the trenches experienced. The Germans coined a word for this experience: Kampfgemeinschaft, which translates to “the community of struggle.” To the National Socialists, The First World War had proven that the community of struggle was the most efficient and effective form of human organization. This struggle of the community made its way into the manifesto of National Socialism: it was the only struggle that combined the efficient authority of a leader and the participation of the community and that corresponded to nature. The community of the people was therefore a community of the front, which obeyed its leader.
There are many who claim that National Socialism forms a system of dictatorship, however this is untrue. Much like a pack of animals, the community bases its struggle on following nature in both its principles and its laws. The system therefore follows only what nature demands from the community - a leader:
“The power of a leader is not based in constitutional paragraphs, but in the leaders superior acts and accomplishments. Elected by nature is the leader who is born with exceptional gifts and that leader understands nature better than anyone else.”
- Hans Frank, 1938
In Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler explains this system in detail:
Here is how the results of this principle are applied to the movement:
The chairman of a local group is appointed by the next higher leader. He is the director of the local group and is responsible for them. All the committees in the local group are under his authority - he is not under their authority. There are no voting committees, but only working committees. The director is the chairman over the committees and he divides up the work for them. The same principle holds true for the next superior organisational level above the district, the county, or the city. The leader is always appointed from above and endowed with absolute power and authority. Only the leader of the entire party is elected by the general assembly for the purpose of organisational law. He is the exclusive leader of the movement. All the committees are under his authority as he is not under the authority of any committee. He dictates and bears the responsibility on his shoulders. The followers of the movement are free to hold him accountable before a new election and to relieve him of his office if he has not upheld the principles of the movement or has not served its interests. He is then replaced by the new and more able man, who has the same authority and the same responsibility.
- Mein Kampf: The Ford Edition (Pages 292-293)
National Socialism is not a system that fits into any known category such as dictatorship, oligarchy, Caesarian monarchy and so on; it is a system that abides by nature and does not rely on constraint. Between the leader and the community exists an established harmony grounded in the community of race. Loyalty to the leader is free in the sense that it is loyalty to oneself and to nature that lays within.