ABSTRACT
The breakdown of the belief in capitalism and socialism and in the society built upon them is general throughout Europe. So is the necessity to maintain the outward organization of society. Yet totalitarianism, which attempts the miracle of finding a new social substance for the old social shell, has till now been confined to two of the large European Powers: Italy and Germany. Consequently, in Italy bourgeois democracy and capitalism never became sentimental and emotional values. Though modern social and economic tasks made necessary the development of a bourgeois class, the bourgeoisie did not become the real master. The "corporate state" which had been designed purely as a political instrument of personal power, suddenly assumed independent social and economic functions. In foreign politics, finally, he intended to play the traditional game of a second-class Power which aspires to first rank: always to remain the fulcrum on the balance of power.
