The ensuing readings are presented to encourage the student to clarify
his thinking on social philosophy. He will accordingly need to
determine whether the readings contain a more or less coherent body of
ideas which constitutes a social philosophy. He will also need to
raise the more far-reaching question whether the ideas are acceptable.
To arrive at any satisfactory answer to this latter question, he will
necessarily have to compare the ideas of fascism and their practical
meanings with the alternatives, real and ideal, that are the substance
of live philosophical issues.