ファシズムに至る病い

抄録

　Recently many books and studies concerning Adolf Hitler have been introduced to the public. It seems to me that deep-rooted influences of Hitler or Fascism and requirements of the times are even now hiding behind that phenomenon. In this paper, I want to pursue the study of the problem focussing upon the attitude of a political leader.
　Fascism can be defined as ‘active nihilism'. According to Weber's theory, a political leader tends to have vanity and, as the result of it, loses his ideal with hardly any consciousness, while he is wielding political power. And then, when he makes further attempts to maintain and expand his political movement without possessing an ideal, he cannot help destroying other movements. Such a state may be considered 'active nihilism' as Rauschning indicated. Thus a political leader becomes Fascist in the end.