authorizations, but ones constantly supervised and instituted in what is “great”—; the capacity for decisions is undermined not through enforced measures but rather through the ever more rich apportioning of | “tasks” which are in fact none, since they exclude meditation, exclude venture, and simply require the corresponding releasement and regulation of the already prepared violence.
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That the age of machination elevates race to the explicit and expressly instituted “principle” of history (or only of historiology) is not the arbitrary invention of “doctrinaire” individuals, but is instead a consequence of the machinational power which must subjugate beings, in all their domains, to planning and calculation. Racial thinking makes “life” a form of breeding, which is a kind of calculation. With their emphatically calculative giftedness, the Jews have for the longest time been “living” in accord with the principle of race, which is why they are also offering the most vehement resistance to its unrestricted application. The instituting of racial breeding stems not from “life” itself, but from the overpowering of life by machination. What machination pursues with such planning is a complete deracializing of peoples through their being clamped into an equally built and equally tailored instituting of all beings. One with the deracializing is | a self-alienation of the peoples—the loss of history, i.e., the loss of the domains of decision regarding beyng. And thereby are blocked the unique possibilities for peoples of preeminent historical power to unite, precisely in their oppositionality: e.g., the cognitive concept and the passion for meditation to unite with the intimacy and breadth of what is uncanny— Germanity and Russianism—which has nothing to do with “Bolshevism,” and the latter is nothing “Asiatic” but is only the configuration of Western-modern thinking on the level of the closing nineteenth century—the first decisive anticipation of the unrestricted power of machination.
It would be just as absurd—i.e., a perversion of the innermost essential relations—to want to battle against Bolshevism by means of the principle of race (as if both of these did not have, in fundamentally different forms, the same metaphysical root) as it would be to endeavor to save Russianism by means of Fascism (as if both of these, separated by an abyss, did not exclude every essential unity). Yet the fact that this is indeed pursued historiologically-technologically shows already the definitive victory of machination over history, the subordination of all politics in relation to metaphysics, wherein is