José Ortega y Gasset: The Revolt of the Masses
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José Ortega y Gasset: The Revolt of the Masses
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Abstract
There is one fact which, whether for good or ill, is of utmost importance in the public life of Europe at the present moment. This fact is the accession of the masses to complete social power. As the masses, by definition, neither should nor can direct their own personal existence, and still less rule society in general, this fact means that actually Europe is suffering from the greatest crisis that can afflict peoples, nations, and civilisation. Such a crisis has occurred more than once in history. Its characteristics and its consequences are well known. So also is its name.
Contents
- Totalitarianism
- Communism in the Soviet Union
- Fascism in Western Europe
- Totalitarianism as Anti-modernity
- Vladimir Lenin: What Is to Be Done?
- Rudolf Steiner: Theosophy
- John Reed: “Soviets in Action”
- Clara Zetkin: “Organising Working Women”
- Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf
- José Ortega y Gasset: The Revolt of the Masses
- Sigmund Freud: Civilization and Its Discontents
- Benito Mussolini: “The Doctrine of Fascism”
- Joseph Stalin: “Results of the First Five-year Plan”
- Rudolf Hess: Oath to Adolf Hitler
- Leon Trotsky: “I Stake My Life!”
- Munich Pact
- Reinhard Heydrich: Memorandum concerning Kristallnacht
- Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Neville Chamberlain: Speech on Germany’s Invasion of Poland
- Liu Shaoqi: How to Be a Good Communist
- Vyacheslav Molotov: Address on Germany’s Invasion of Russia
- Cardinal Clemens von Galen: “Against Nazi Euthanasia”
- John W. Pehle and John J. McCloy: Debate about the Bombing of Auschwitz
- Declaration Regarding the Defeat of Germany
- Robert H. Jackson: Opening Statement before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany
- Mao Zedong: “On the People’s Democratic Dictatorship”
- Mao Zedong: “On the Co-Operative Transformation of Agriculture”