Poles Apart

Ye look upward when longing to be exalted. And I look downward because I am exalted.
[Nietzsche TSZ I,'Of Reading and Writing']

To fascists, nationalism in one country was just a step towards the next stage, a fascist Europa - Nietzsche's 'Good European'.
The stages were;
The Camel - Democracy
The Lion - Nationalistic Fascism
The Child - European Fascism.

This was described in Skidelsky's biography of Sir Oswald Mosley;
"The democratic camel and the fascist lion of Nietzsche's 'Three Metamorphoses', must give way to something higher - The Child; 'a forgetfulness, a new beginning'. This was Mosley's Europe".

To orientate us on this age-old polarity variously described in this thread, I will list the following (the Classical/Nietzschean will always be first, the Democratic will always be second);

TERMINOLOGICAL OPPOSITIONS:
Culture - Civilisation
Intuition - Intellect
Depth - Superficiality
Hierarchy - Pluralism
Leadership - Democracy
Organic - mechanical
Living Growth - Static Form
Prussian Duty - French Revolution
Racial Purity - Mixed-Races
National Community - Contractual Society.
[Schenck ib.]

By opposition, we know where we stand.