The Elements of Racial Education

The title of this small volume expresses clearly our intentions regarding its form and its purpose... Our task in this small volume... aims to clarify the ideas - we may say the 'key ideas' - needed in order for the educator to carry out, with respect to racism, too, his true task. Simple notions, but clear and suffused with suggestive force, able to act on the souls of the young people rather than on their intellects, so as to promote a certain formation of their will and a certain orientation of their best vocations... The educator must bear in mind, in this connection, the essentially political and ethical value which the theory of race must have in Fascism, and thus in the Fascist school. He must understand fully that the 'race' in question is something very different from the one of which biology and anthropology spoke until very recently. Our racism goes far beyond the limits of such disciplines, which are, in fact, basically, in their most common, positivistic, and scientistic formulations, in sharp contrast with the true racist idea. True racism is a frame of mind rather than a specialised discipline: its influence thus extends to fields which, according to general opinion, and especially that of the so-called 'intellectuals', would seem to have nothing to do with problems of this kind... Here we speak about the formation of a mentality and of a sensibility, not of intellectual schemes or of classifications of natural science... It is to this end that we have written this small volume, in which we will present in the most vivid and direct manner the fundamental essence of the ideas which integrate the racist orientation into the main issues of the ethics and the general world-view of Fascism.