From the archives: November 24, 1926
From the archives Throughout 1999, Commonweal will be celebrating its 75th anniversary. Here from the November 24, 1926 issue is am excerpt from "Autocracy versus ...
...Bui there has always been an opposing philosophy in which the state was conceived as erne corporation with limited and derived powers, existing among other corporations which were autonomous, and endowed with inalienable rights...
...From the archives Throughout 1999, Commonweal will be celebrating its 75th anniversary...
...Waltfr Lippmann...
...Don Sturzo is a pries>t who in ]919 became the leader of the Partita Popoiare designed to oppose both reaction and revolution....It is to this writer, a non-Catholic, the most interesting conflict of principle in the whole field of politics...
...Here from the November 24, 1926 issue is am excerpt from "Autocracy versus Catholicism" by tlte columnist and political phibsopher Walter Lippmtmn...
...Fundamentally it seems to me the only conception of politics which is consistent with a free and civilized life...
...For fascism, wholly apart from its immediate history in Italy, is the logical and uncompromising development of the autocratic state, an absolute centralization of authority in the political state, a resolute denial that there may exist any center of authority outside that of the state....There are no rights of man, no rights of the family, no rights of association, lay or spiritual, which are independent of the complete authority of the state....In the modern post-Reformation world, Machiavelli's ideas have won, and in the current political philosophy the state is conceived as "unitary, omnipotent, and irresistible...
...If 1 read history correctly, the world owes this conception to the Catholic thinkers who worked it out in their great conflicts with the kings and nobles...
Vol. 126 • September 1999 • No. 15
