Written by James Gregor
Narrated by Sean Salas
"According to Gentile, the notion that man exists in perfect freedom anterior or exterior to society is simply a fiction. Actually, insofar as man is outside the organization of society with its system of reciprocated rules and obligations, he has no significant freedom. Outside of society man would be the subject of nature, not its master. He would be the enemy of all and friend of none. He would be threatened by persons and things alike. His would be a state of abject dependence. There would be no freedom, no security, no assurance to barter away in part upon entering society, in order to secure the remainder, is an imaginary possession, conveyed to society by an imaginary transfer."
https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/2015-6-9-giovanni-gentile-and-the-philosophy-of-fascism
Pp. 137-139 Gregor, A. James. Contemporary Radical Ideologies: Totalitarian Thought in the Twentieth Century. New York: Random House, 1968.
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