[Nettime-bold] The last radical centre and "the people"

[Phil Graham <phil.graham@mailbox.uq.edu.au>]

The Nazi party was a "radical centre" party. To me, the "radical centre" 
has always reminded me of a washing machine, busily sanitising the same old 
costume. They want to get rid of the old ways which are now passing now in 
any case because they are already dead. They don't want conflict, they want 
consensus. But you can see by their words they have always been good 
people, making sure that the interests of the people are served at all 
costs, above all else.

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"Those in the Center know our goals: the National Socialist movement has no 
desire to join the bourgeois party bosses. We have no intention of ducking 
responsibility. We are not purveyors of pathos, as the newspapers like to 
say about us. We will accept responsibility only when we can justify it to 
the people and the nation. We do not think holy what the Republic thinks 
untouchable. The National Socialist movement wants a transformation of 
things as they are. We have not come to prop up that which is collapsing, 
but to topple it.

The conditions under which we would be willing to use the power we have are 
clear. They are clear, proper and precise to anyone who knows us. We are 
interested not in the good of our party, but in the good of the German 
people. The millions who have voted for us want National Socialism to 
determine the fate of the Reich. They have no interest in parliamentary 
horse trading, even less that we use our strength to support a collapsing 
system. Anyone who wants to govern with us must accept the fact that the 
time when one could ignore the interests of the working people is over. We 
also refuse absolutely to dicker for party advantage. We will take care of 
our party by ourselves. The government should consider only the interests 
of the people."

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Joseph Goebbels - One hundred and seven -- 
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/angrif07.htm





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