“Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order… catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.”

Source: 1930s- 1950s, The End of Economic Man (1939), p. 24

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American business consultant 1909–2005

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