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Rudolf Hilferding and the total state.

From: The Historian  |  Date: 9/22/1994  |  Author: Smaldone, William

The German Nazi party victory in 1930 and subsequent expulsion of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) led SDP economist Rudolf Hilferding to reassess his belief that the state could exist solely as a tool of the people, and to eventually abandon Marxist thought altogether. Hilferding developed a total state model in which government was obligated to play a controlling role over people's lives. In this totalitarian model, governments would be based on humanistic and Christian concepts of morality ...

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