| Winston Churchill's praise of Drucker's analysis of fascism |
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In his analysis Drucker revealed the nihilistic character of fascism and National Socialism, which negated millennia of European cultural development; and he settled up with the at that time generally admired successes of their "defence economies." Drucker documented the amateurism and irrationalism of the National Socialist economic system with, among other things, an experience he had among a meeting of farmers. An NSDAP functionary had shouted to the cheering crowd: "We don't want lower bread prices, we don't want higher bread prices, we don't want unchanged bread prices - we want National-Socialist bread prices."
Drucker's analysis met with a broad and positive response, including from Winston Churchill, who praised the book and its author in the Times Literary Supplement. Hayek, in his own analysis of totalitarianism, The Road to Serfdom, referred in two places to Drucker's book. To date, the book has seen repeated reprintings in English; in Japan it is even used as a textbook in secondary schools. Yet this fundamental examination of the phenomenon of totalitarianism has yet to be translated into German. >> How Drucker 'invented' management at General Motors |
| Churchill's review of Drucker's book The End of Economic Man in the
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