ABSTRACT
Before the World War only Fabians talked about a planned society. During the War all the belligerent societies were planned, and (considering the rapidity with which the work was done) planned very effectively, for the purpose of carrying on the hostilities. The Fascist, then, is one who believes that the bombardment of open towns with fire, poison and explosives (in other words, modern war) is intrinsically good. He is one who rejects the teaching of the prophets and believes that the best society is a national society living in a state of chronic hostility towards other national societies and preoccupied with ideas of rapine and slaughter. Most of the essays in large-scale planning attempted by the democratic powers have been dictated by the desire to achieve military efficiency. During the nineteenth and the first years of the twentieth century economic exchanges between the nations were carried on with remarkable smoothness.
