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instrument of leadership. What is at first achieved within the party be–
comes the essence and anticipation of what the party tries to accomplish
within society at large. The traditional relations between state and
society are finally reversed. The totalitarian party is the instrument by
which the state absorbs society.
If
one wrote a new Communist Mani–
festo, one would not have to talk about class struggles which indeed no
longer exist but to evaluate the chances of success of the various
Fuhrers;
strategy would replace historical determinism, the language of
Machiavelli that of Marx.
Thierry Maulnier, in pre-war days one of the leading intellectual
spokesmen of the extreme right, who has now moved to some sort of
anti-Marxist socialist position, contributes a remarkable article on "Marx–
ism and Its Morality" to the March issue of
N
ef.
Marxism always has scared the bourgeoisie, scared it not only as
a political movement but also as a
Weltanschauung.
The bourgeois
ideologists were never able to come to grips with, let alone refute, the
basic tenets of Marxist thought. All accusations against its materialism,
its mechanism, have remained superficial. Bourgeois thought has created
admirable works in spheres far removed from those investigated by
GBM
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