ABSTRACT
Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order. The last, decisive step leading to this collapse was the disintegration of the belief in Marxist socialism, which proved unable to overcome capitalism and to establish a new order. The one fundamental socialist dogma without which belief in the order of Marxism is impossible, is that capitalism in its trend toward larger and larger producing units must by necessity develop a social structure in which all are equal as proletarians except a few expropriators. The failure of the socialist revolution in the precapitalist countries - the only ones where it is still possible and can still appeal to the masses - was admitted by the Russians themselves when they "postponed indefinitely" the day when the true socialist state of freedom would be realized. That capitalism is doomed seems to be a commonplace.
