Mark Lennox

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when a totalitarian movement has been built up, has established the principle that ‘the will of the Fuehrer is the Party’s law,’ and when its whole hierarchy has been efficiently trained for a single purpose – swiftly to communicate the will of the Leader to all ranks. When this has been achieved, the Leader is irreplaceable because the whole complicated structure of the movement would lose its raison d’être without his commands.
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Penguin Modern Classics)
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