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The Totalitarian State Against Man

The Totalitarian State Against Man by Count Richard N. Coudenhove-Kalergi, translated by SIR ANDREW MCFADYEAN. With an Introduction by WICKHAM STEED. From The Introduction: The Hegel declared, is “the ultimate end which has the highest right against the individual, whose highest duty is to be a member of the State ”. This doctrine Coudenhove-Kalergi shows to be the root of political evil. Hegel was, indeed, the foster-parent of the Totalitarian State idea, and the parent of the modern reaction against freedom. To his influence can be traced the form of Russian Bolshevism as of Italian Fascism and of German Nazism. Mussolini’s dogma that “the State is an Absolute” is merely an echo of Hegel’s error. Some knowledge of the philosophical antecedents of this totalitarian heresy may, indeed, be needed before the full force of Coudenhove-Kalergi’s demolition of it can be appreciated. His doctrine runs: - Man is a creature of God. - The State is a creature of man... - Man is an end and not a means. The State is a means and not an end. - The value of the State is exactly the value of its services to human beings; in so much as it serves to develop man it is good‐so soon as it hinders the de

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