Kolnai rightly stresses the connection between racialism (it is fate that makes one a member of one’s race) and hostility to freedom: ‘The principle of Race’, Kolnai says82, ‘is meant to embody and express the utter negation of human freedom, the denial of equal rights, a challenge in the face of mankind.’ And he rightly insists that racialism tends ‘to oppose Liberty by Fate, individual consciousness by the compelling urge of the Blood beyond control and argument’.
