[J]ustification of power must be the central problem. For it is through this problem alone that freedom and equality-or... justice-can be projected into the social and political reality... But to fascism the problem does not even exist except as a ridiculous relic of "Jewish liberalism." (Peter Drucker)

[J]ustification of power must be the central problem. For it is through this problem alone that freedom and equality-or... justice-can be projected into the social and political reality... But to fascism the problem does not even exist except as a ridiculous relic of "Jewish liberalism."

Peter Drucker

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