The ever growing power of a soulless political bureaucracy which supervises and safeguards
the life of man from the cradle to the grave is putting ever greater obstacles in the way of the
solidaric co-operation of human beings and crushing out every possibility of new development.
A system which in every act of its life sacrifices the welfare of large sections of the people, yes, of
whole nations, to the selfish lust for power and the economic interests of small minorities must of
necessity dissolve all social ties and lead to a constant war of all against all. This system has been
merely the pacemaker for the great intellectual and social reaction which finds its expression
today in modern Fascism, far surpassing the obsession for power of the absolute monarchy of
past centuries and seeking to bring every sphere of human activity under the control of the state.
Just as for the various systems of religious theology, God is everything and man nothing, so for
this modern political theology, the state is everything and the man nothing. And just as behind
the “will of God” there always lay hidden the will of privileged minorities, so today there hides
behind the “will of the state” only the selfish interest of those who feel called to interpret this
will in their own sense and to force it upon the people.
