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A SYMPOSIUM on the totalitarian State from the points of view of history, political science, economics and sociology has recently appeared (Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., 82, No. 1; 1940). Discussing totalitarian politics, F. M. Marx points out that totalitarianism and constitutionally safeguarded individual rights are incompatible. The corporative order is essentially an effort to interlock the entire occupational and social structure with the centrally controlled political hierarchy, and it cannot respect the difference between persuasion and brutal force. Totalitarianism is essentially anti-intellectual, but its character is dynamic and it would never have gained hold if it did not satisfy a human need not otherwise met. Its corporative features may well change the structure of the nation State so as to set a new international standard, and freedom of choice will only be retained by dealing effectively with those demesne conditions which cry out for redress.
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Aspects of the Totalitarian State. Nature 146, 241 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146241a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146241a0