National Socialism

National Socialism (Nazism) refers to the fascist ideology and political movement of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party in Germany, emphasizing racial hierarchy, dictatorship, and the subordination of individual rights to the state. In these claims it is discussed as radicalizing modernity’s logic of scientific problem-solving and functioning as a non-state that ruled directly without legal mediation.

Claims that use this term

• National Socialism radicalized modernity’s own logic of scientific problem-solving
• National Socialism functioned as a non-state ruling directly without legal mediation
• The Institute’s planned war-effort book became its National Socialism issue of SPSS