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The Theory of the State “Legitimacy, Sovereignty, Authority”

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From the conception of society, there followed almost logically the Saint-Simonian political authoritarianism. Paradoxically, despite their condemnation of the critical spirit of the age, the political views of the Saint-Simonians, set forth in the Doctrine, were elaborated less in systematic exposition than by implication in the criticism of existing political ideas and institutions.

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  1. J. Selwyn Schapiro, Liberalism and the Challenge of Fascism, (New York: McGraw Hill, 1949), p. 149.

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  2. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto. (New York: International Publishers, 1932), p. 43.

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© 1958 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands

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Iggers, G.G. (1958). The Theory of the State “Legitimacy, Sovereignty, Authority”. In: The Cult of Authority. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0929-9_3

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