"For Mazzini, a nationality means a race, a fixed array of behavior like a breed of dog or a species of animal.
He is not thinking of a national community united by a literate language and a classical culture to which any person can become assimilated through a political choice.
For Mazzini, race is unchangeable, and race is destiny.
It is a matter of blood and soil.
Cats fight dogs, French fight Germans, Germans fight Poles, and so on through all eternity. These hatreds are the main datum of sensory perception.
Each of Mazzini’s organizations demands immediate national liberation for its own ethnic group on the basis of aggressive chauvinism and expansionism.
Mazzini’s warhorse is the Territorial Imperative. Each is obsessed with borders and territory, and each finds a way to oppose and sabotage dirigist economic development. Each one is eager to submerge and repress other national groupings in pursuit of its own mystical destiny.
This is Mazzini’s racist gospel of universal ethnic cleansing.
"If I do not get the oil of Maikop and Grozny then I must liquidate this war."
—Adolf Hitler
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