ABSTRACT
The noneconomic industrial society constitutes fascism's social miracle, which makes possible and sensible the maintenance of the industrial, and therefore necessarily economically unequal, system of production. Totalitarian Wehrwirtschaft—the organization of the entire economic and social life upon military lines—serves therefore the vital social purpose of supplying a noneconomic basis of society while leaving unchanged the facade of industrial society. The significant phenomenon of Wehrwirtschaft is therefore not that fascism and Nazism convert the free professional into a paid government employee, not even that the professional classes have been reduced in numbers and economic status as sharply as possible. Fascist society has to be noneconomic, its goal the military autarchy of Wehrwirtschaft. In Europe too, particularly in the Balkans, Germany cannot be satisfied with concessions or even with political, military, and commercial predominance.
