# Adolf Hitler's Own Book Mein Kampf (My Battle)/Chapter 16

Chapter XVI
Personality and the Racial State
Our view of the world rejects the democratic rule of the majority, and strives to give the world to the best race, that is, to the highest humans. It must follow the same aristocratic principle within the race itself.
The best must be assured the command of the race.
It must not be supposed that the racial Nazi state is to differ from other states solely in its economic construction, in, for instance, a better balance between wealth and poverty—this has nothing to do with permanency nor with greatness.
Sin against blood and race is the original sin of the world, and those who surrender to it speed the end of mankind.
Mein Kampf—Chapter X
The creations we see about us are the results of the talents and energies of individuals, even though these inventions are so widely accepted and their use so common as to have become almost a part of instinct. One individual is responsible in every case.
The masses don’t invent, nor does the majority ever organize or think— always it is only the individual man, the personality, the benefactor of mankind.
The supreme duty of the racial community is to give this great individual man the fullest opportunity to serve the race. All state organization must primarily concern itself with the double task of putting the superior individual above the masses, and of subjecting the masses to him.
This superior individual is selected by the harsh test of the life struggle. Those who are crushed in this battle are not those chosen to lead; but finally the selected one rises up to command.
    (Thus the most horrible, depraved maniac or criminal member of an entire nation or race is—according to Hitler—the man who should lead that nation or race, if to a higher degree than any other member of the nation or race he possesses the sole talent of influencing and dominating people.)
Marxism is the perfection of the Jew’s attempt to destroy the personality in all fields of life, replacing it by the weight of mass numbers.
The principle which makes the racial view of life so different from Marxism is that it absolutely understands the importance of blood and race. This recognition of the race makes the individual personality the pillar of the whole structure.
    (Is it possible that Mugenberg, Thyssen, Krupp and the other frightened industrial leaders—including a few Jews—of Germany who financed Hitler’s final efforts to achieve a dictatorship over Germany, because they thought that he could abolish the threat of Communism, read this passage of Mein Kampf? Could they have chosen him as their “Savior” knowing that he opposed Marxism purely on racial grounds, and that his hatred of it had absolutely nothing to do with economics?)
The racial state must unfetter all leadership from the parliamentary principle of majority rule, thus assuring inviolably the right of personality. The extraordinary genius must not be made subject to the rules of normal mankind.
The racial state must adopt the principle which once made the Prussian army so great: authority over those below, and responsibility to those above.
“In the ultimate analysis governments are maintained by belief in their good quality and in their truthfulness, and in their just representation of the interests of the people—and not by the pressure of force.”
Mein Kampf—Chapter X
One commander must have complete responsibility.
The racial state has no ruling body which makes decision by majority vote; it has instead councils designed to carry out specific duties. Each individual member has an advisory vote, but never a decisive one. One man, the chairman of the council, makes final decisions, all of which are subject to the veto of the one supreme leader.
The Nazi movement should carry out these ideas within its own organization so that it may point out to the state proper principles, and may one day place its own organization in the service of the racial state.