The fascists called on the New Man to rise up and to wrest history—and of course political power—back from those who, they held, had been actively working against them. In this the German Nazis went much further than other fascists, calling for an apocalyptic clash of ideologies in which the battle lines would be drawn along racial distinctions. Capitalism, the Nazi theorists claimed, was alien to the Germanic soul, a Jewish conspiracy designed to suppress the greater spiritual strength slumbering in all Aryans and their greater intrinsic worth as human beings.
