ABSTRACT
The consistent new concept of society which totalitarianism proclaims is nothing but a mirage unless war is accepted not only as legitimate but as supreme. Totalitarianism can banish the demon of unemployment and it can restore the rationality of war for the individual. But it cannot effect this rationalization without making society appear irrational and senseless. It cannot perform its miracle. The freedom from the emotions of the masses which totalitarianism allegedly enjoys is held up against the "mob rule" of parliamentary majority governments and against the "unbridled war propaganda" of a free press. If there could have been any doubt as to whether the fascist governments owe their popularity to the glorification of war in the creed of Heroic Man. This inevitable failure to base a society on the anarchic concept of Heroic Man vitiates irreparably the entire performance of totalitarian fascism.
