We demand that every British citizen has a duty to be productive, to the best of their ability. All honest work is honourable, and work is a duty.
Central to a Nationalist worldview is an understanding of the place of an individual within society, and this means an understanding of what a person gives to the world, and what a person draws from it. In line with Demand Five, that an individual has duties to society as well as rights within it, we consider that the first duty on our people is a duty to be, in some way, productive members of society, which means a duty to work.
Work does not just mean what we call to mind when we use the word. Work, the idea of exerting effort today so that things might be better tomorrow, is one of the things that has enabled our people to achieve such heights. And to work is to free oneself from a state of dependency, for the man who can stand on his own two feet without the need of another, can never be made a slave. To work, is freedom.
Ultimately, activity that benefits the individual but NOT society is crime. Activity that benefits society but not the individual is noble charity. And activity that benefits society as well as the individual is honest work, and all honest work is honourable.
Hand in hand with the freedom that honest work brings, comes the recognition that no British person has the right to be a parasite. Nobody has the right to expect their fellow countrymen to carry them through life, taking all the losses and getting nothing in return. In a true National Community, everyone gives and takes away, everyone is supported and also contributes.
One of the worst mistakes that our people can make is to believe that to work is to be a slave. The opposite is true, and through a National Community of honest, noble work, our entire people will find a freedom that they never previously possessed.
By National Rebirth Party
