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"In consciously politicizing the concept of existence, and deprivatizing and deinternalizing the liberalist, idealist conception of man, the totalitarian view of the state represents progress — progress that leads beyond the basis of the totalitarian state, propelling the theory beyond the social order that it affirms."

"We can already discern the reason why the total authoritarian state diverts its struggle against liberalism into a struggle of 'weltanschauungen', why it bypasses the social structure basic to liberalism: it is itself largely in accord with this basic structure."