To Irene Grant (7 May 1932)

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Darling Irene,

I am a pig and traitor not having written till now. Donald is perhaps back in Geneva […]

Bad conscience, criminal leanings, cynical practice, fires of purgatory, forgiveness for the Repentant!

Thanjfykkt dud GF.. OH! HCE HCE HCE!!!

Gratefully did GF remember to me that he had had a letter from you -- he comes to see me this afternoon - - […]

We had a grand discussion on Fascism and Socialism in the A.F.O.R., with alive Faschist (a former Communist he was of course!) as opponent to meek Benedikt and inscrutable [19] bu y deadly me! I am so sorry not to know the persons by name: -- Benedikt happily seemed to know everybody ++ It must be more than a coincidence that the O.B. circle, the FOR, and R.R.'s group too are mainly concerned with the Ethics of Fascism at the moment, and that they all seem to agree that it is fundamentally opposed to Christianity. My Lunterenlecture (-- oh! really could not Tess somehow procure the text of it to me, I need it bitterly!!!) and my sociological theory of Fascism as the expression of a very real problem of our times: the problem of Democracy under the following aspect: Capitalism invests the leaders of industry with absolute prerogatives in the mill, the factory concerning the workers attached to them -- modern Democracy on the other hand, invests these self-same workers with absolute prerogatives in the State. There is an antinomy between these two series of phenomena.

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KPA: 56/13, 18-20