Fervently held supremacist demands remain logically consistent with the ruling ideology

Evidence

The Nazi author Andreas Pfenning explicitly rejects the notion that the SA were fighting for an “ideal” or were prompted by and “idealistic experience.” Their “basic experience came into existance in the course of the struggle.” “Gemeinschaft und Staatswissenschaft,” in Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft, Band 96. Translation quoted from Ernst Fraenkel, The Dual State, New York and London, 1941. p. 192. From the extensive literature issued in pamphlet form by the main indoctrination center (Hauptamt-Schulungsamt) of the SS, it is quite evident that the word “idealism” has been studiously avoided. Not idealism was demanded of SS members, but “utter logical consistency in all question of ideology and the ruthless pursuit of the political struggle” (Werner Best, Die deutsche Polizei, 1941, p. 99). — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2547 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The aggressiveness of totalitarianism springs not from lust for power, and if it feverishly seeks to expand, it does so neither for expansion’s sake nor for profit, but only for ideological reasons: to make the world consistent, to prove that its respective supersense has been right. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1030 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Totalitarian movements rewarded ideological consistency over idealism; Nazi totalitarian ideology demanded logical consistency, not idealistic commitment. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2547; Survival-of-the-fittest ideology collapses when ruling security is threatened — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 474 (+3 more)

Related

• Nazi totalitarian ideology demanded logical consistency, not idealistic commitment. (similarity 0.91)
• Totalitarian movements rewarded ideological consistency over idealism (similarity 0.85)
• Totalitarian expansion is driven by ideological consistency, not by power or profit (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Totalitarian movements rewarded ideological consistency over idealism #corroborates (0.85)
• Nazi totalitarian ideology demanded logical consistency, not idealistic commitment. #corroborates (0.80) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2547
• Totalitarian expansion is driven by ideological consistency, not by power or profit #corroborates (0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1030
• Neoliberal continuity survived via pragmatic adjustment, not doctrinal purity #complicates (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1615
• Survival-of-the-fittest ideology collapses when ruling security is threatened #contradicts (0.70) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 474