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658 ETHICS AND POLITICS: THE MODERNS
recently published book entitled One* four Enemy, by
Hetnrich Hauser, these tendencies are clearly exemplified.
"The inferiority complex of modern man," he writes,
"has embodied itself in its organizations. He looks for
walls to shelter him. He builds breakwaters to take the
force of the waves of life. Thus he tries to cheat fate and
death. First of all we must smash up the organization.
Security and insurance must be wholly taken away from
us. No emergency exit must be left, no funk-hole into which
a man may creep. Then, and not till then, will life be
strong and simple again/'
If it be objected that struggle is a relic of barbarism,
and that struggle under modern conditions will lead back
to barbarism, Heinrich Hauser retorts by praising barbarism.
"What is called barbarism is," he declares, "the
power of life renewing itself. The so-called decline of
Europe is a phoenix rising from its ashes. We are the outposts
of Europe, to-day, yesterday, for the last thousand
years. We must be ready to fight, and we are ready. Not
only for ourselves and our people but for the Europe whose
heart we are/'
"A citizen and a soldier," Mussolini has announced,
"are synonymous in the fascist State."
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V. SUMMARY
Fascism and the Arbitrament of Force
It is not, I think, difficult to see why the theory of
Fascism is associated in the popular mind with war; why
it sings the praise of war, 1 encourages the military virtues,
1 The following is the official New Year'i carol, sung during January
by children between the ages of to and 18 in Germany:
"With the bcllt in the tower
Let us arise,
And fan the fires
Which to heaven shaH rise,
And bear our weapons
For the Year is new:
War is the watchword!
Make the watchword true/'