Antanas Maceina: Rasizmas Ir Tautinés Mažumos Valstybéje
Antanas Maceina: Racism and National Minority in a State

Summary/Abstract: The article reveals the characteristics of the attitude of the younger generation of Lithuanian Catholic intellectuals A. Maceina (1908-1985) to the theory of races and national minority in a state. A. Maceina rejected the idea propagated by the Nazis about the inferiority of some races. On the basis of their theory of races, the Nazis wanted to justify the creation of a state, justify its goals, functioning, and the unequal status of the population in a state. Rejecting racism as contrary to Christian teaching, the Lithuanian Catholic intellectuals firmly opposed the declaration of the omnipotence of the Fascist state and as a substitute for it they offered the idea of an “organic” national state, which would recognize that people from birth are social and join into various kinds of societies (world view, professional, national), while natural rights manage their inner life. The state can provide the people with the basics of positive rights, i.e. balance their activities, care for and shelter them, but it can not infiltrate them more deeply and destroy the tenets of natural rights, which are the basis for the creation of these societies.

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