The Archive · 1940

What of the State?

Finally we come to the basic fundamental question on the answer to which hangs the whole of Naziism and round which they have built their bid for world domination. Is the State the end of everything, and should everything and everybody in it be subordinated to the State? Can the State do exactly as it likes, break all rules, interfere as it likes with private liberties and break up families, homes, and all those other institutions of a like nature as and when it pleases and without giving

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