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Fascism was triumphantly anti-liberal. It also provided the proof that man can, without difficulty, combine crack-brained beliefs about the world with a confident mastery of contemporary high technology. ... Nevertheless, the combination of conservative values, the techniques of mass democracy, and an innovative ideology of irrationalist savagery, essentially centered in nationalism, must be explained..

Age of Extremes

The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.
Letters from Prison (1946)