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THEORY OP FASCISM 65!
university teachers were dismissed, not for intellectual
incompetence, but for reasons connected with race and
politics.
Even art is not permitted to function independently of
the State. The vision of the artist, or rather, all that is
valuable in the vision of the artist, is the State's vision,
and it must not be employed except in the State's interest.
"So long as there remains in Germany any neutral or
non-political art," Hcrr Goebbels has declared, "our task
is not ended."
To sum up, the principle of Totalitarianism, more
particularly in its German form, demands certain sacrifices
of fire thought, fire criticism, free combination, and
free imagination, in the interest of the State's welfare. The
welfare of the State is that which is willed by
Will, that is the real Will of the people. This General Will or
real Will is in Germany interpreted by members of the
the General
National Socialist Party who explain to the people -what
the interests of the community require. These interests
are in all respects identical with' those of the National
Socialist Party. Such in outline is the theory of Totali-
tarianism.
What the theory comes to in practice may be gathered
from the following quotation from a book, The Spirit and
Structure of German Fascism, by Robert A. Brady: "In
plain language, this," the theory that the National Socialist
Party is the interpreter of the General Will, "means that
die National Peasant Leader tells his designees what they
are to do, these tell their inferior officers what to do, and
these in turn tell the peasant, according to the law, whether
sell. Since the
or what he may own, may produce or may
Nazi philosophy rUf for complete *
co-ordination of spirit
and ideas 9
, the lame 'ddegatory' or 'entrusting' or
commanding applies to social life, leisure time activities,
and what the peasant, his family and all rural labour may
think, where they may go and how they may fed about
anything which affects Germany, which is everything.
Nazi writers refer to it as the 'new German freedom'."