Every society and State is made of people; individual human beings are their
primary element. What kind of human beings?
Not people as they are conceived by individualism, as
atoms or a mass of atoms, but people as persons, as differentiated beings, each one endowed with a
different rank, a different freedom, a different right within the social hierarchy based on the values
of creating, constructing, obeying, and commanding. With people such as these it is possible to
establish the true State, namely an antiliberal, antidemocratic, and organic State. The idea behind
such a State is the priority of the person over any abstract social, political, or juridical entity, and not
of the person as a neuter, leveled reality, a mere number in the world of quantity and universal
suffrage.
The perfection of the human being is the end to which every healthy social institution must be
subordinated, and it must be promoted as much as possible.
This perfection must be conceived on
the basis of a process of individuation and of progressive differentiation. In this regard we must
consider the view expressed by Paul de Lagarde, which can be expressed approximately in these
terms: everything that is under the aegis of humanitarianism, the doctrine of natural law, and
collectivity corresponds to the inferior dimension.
Merely being a “man” is a minus compared to
being a man belonging to a given nation and society; this, in turn, is still a minus compared to beinga “person,” a quality that implies the shift to a plane that is higher than the merely naturalistic and
“social” one. In turn, being a person is something that needs to be further differentiated into
degrees, functions, and dignities with which, beyond the social and horizontal plane, the properly
political world is defined vertically in its bodies, functional classes, corporations, or particular
unities,
according to a pyramid-like structure, at the top of which one would expect to find people
who more or less embody the absolute person. What is meant by ”absolute person” is the supremely
realized person who represents the end, and the natural center of gravity, of the whole system.
The
“absolute person” is obviously the opposite of the individual. The atomic, unqualified, socialized, or
standardized unity to which the individual corresponds is opposed in the absolute person by the
actual synthesis of the fundamental possibilities and by the full control of the powers inherent in the
idea of man (in the limiting case), or of a man of a given race (in a more relative, specialized, and
historical domain): that is, by an extreme individuation that corresponds to a de-individualization
and to a certain universalization of the types corresponding to it. Thus, this is the disposition
required to embody pure authority, to assume the symbol and the power of sovereignty, or the form
from above, namely the imperium.