9. Democracy.

Individuals form classes according to categories of interests. They

are associated according to differentiated economical activities which

have a common interest: but first and foremost they form the State.

The State is not merely either the numbers or the sum of individuals

forming the majority of a people. Fascism for this reason is opposed

to the democracy which identifies peoples with the greatest number of

individuals and reduces them to a majority level. But if people are

conceived, as they should be, qualitatively and not quantitatively,

then Fascism is democracy in its purest form. The qualitative

conception is the most coherent and truest form and is therefore the

most moral, because it sees a people realised in the consciousness and

will of the few or even of one only; an ideal which moves to its

realisation in the consciousness and will of all. By "all" is meant

all who derive their justification as a nation, ethnically speaking,

from their nature and history, and who follow the same line of

spiritual formation and development as one single will and

consciousness--not as a race nor as a geographically determined

region, but as a progeny that is rather the outcome of a history which

perpetuates itself; a multitude unified by an idea embodied in the

will to have power and to exist, conscious of itself and of its

personality.

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