THE MASS AND THE RACE
The qualities of "race" are in every detail the precise opposites of the terrors of "the mass." The extent to which this is the case is demonstrated by a comparative catalog of their attributes by Delmar—which needs little further comment.
THE MASS AND ITS COUNTERPARTS
Decalogue of Race
I Race is the spirit of grace in landscape, blood, and form.
II Race is the perfection of a possibility.
III Race is the fate of the few who excel.
IV Race is the exception, and the rights due to it.
V Race is happiness and life.
VI Race is strength, beauty, and desire.
VII Race is battle, wisdom, and play.
VIII Race is the passionate intensity of will in a man.
IX Race is passionate submission in a woman.
X Race was once the hallmark of the French nation.'
Decalogue of the Mass
I Mass is the death of spirit in landscape, blood, and form.
II Mass is the eclipse of what was once real.
III Mass is the fate of all the worst.
IV Mass is equality and its attendant terrors.
V Mass is suffering and death.
VI Mass is weakness, ugliness, and fear.
VII Mass is eternal peace, stultification, petty legalism.
VIII Mass is feminization of the will in a man.
IX Mass is prostitution in a woman.
X Mass is now the hallmark of the French nation.
In [Maximillian] Delmar's book, sixty-five pages separate these two "decalogues." As the comparison shows, they match line for line, and word for word. In many of the texts already cited, the external organizational form presented as most appropriate—indeed as more or less natural —to male culture is the army. "Race" by contrast is the organizational form most appropriate to the body of the soldier male. In the bodily state referred to as "race," he finds "beauty," "desire," "play," "happiness," "wisdom," "life." Race seems to protect him from disintegration.
For Wilhelm Reich, the term "race" could clearly be seen to denote a particular sexual orientation. So unquestioningly, however, did he equate heterosexuality and genitality with sexuality in general that he tended to regard "race" as a description of "asexuality." Yet the concept clearly displays "masculine" characteristics — its origin in a defense against the threats of the "mass," and its association with the masculine/soldierly concept of "culture." If "race" is compared with the various different manifestations of the "mass"—particularly the "heavy mass" of the bodily interior that threatens constantly to erupt into murder—it becomes possible to see it as the fascist's term for his own body armor: a function of his body that keeps the mass in check —and the function through which he experiences himself as living.
— Klaus Theweleit, Male Fantasies Vol II: male bodies: psychoanalyzing the white terror.
I’ll just remark that this stuff gets into Fascism and Nazism in part from Gustav Le Bon, the new lodestar of the Larouchie and Larouchoid pundit networks, revived and circulated of late by one Dr. Mattias Desmet, yet another disciple of Slavoj Žižek, like Fabio Vighi.
(From the bibliography of the Theweleit: Delmar, Maximilian. Franzosische Frauen. Erlebnisse und Beobachtungen, Reflexionen, Paradoxe. Freiburg, 1925)