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Mass regimentation, the most prevalent and the worst social evil of our times, has attacked the peoples of both the west and the east, both on this side of the iron curtain and the other. But it has made its appearance in east and west in very different forms. In the west it has been more chronic in nature and has run its course with slow and dragging footsteps, while in the east it has appeared in a vigorous, acute and violent form. Bodily illnesses, we know, are more informative to doctors when they occur in acute and virulent forms, and the same, I think, applies here.
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Translator’s footnote. In a brief footnote the author himself somewhat ruefully deplores the inadequacy of this rather tongue-twisting term. The Subsidiaritätsprinzip is very akin to the principle of decentralisation, but with this essential difference, that, whereas the latter accepts the over-ruling by higher authority of any decision taken at a lower level, the Subsidiaritätsprinzip advocates that any decision taken by any authority (within its own sphere of competence) should be regarded as absolute, inviolable and subject to no interference by higher authority.
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Rüstow, A. (1961). Organic Policy (Vitalpolitik) Versus Mass Regimentation. In: Hunold, A. (eds) Freedom and Serfdom. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3665-8_10
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