Book Reviews : The State and the Farmer: British Agricultural Policies and Politics. By PETER SELF and HERBERT J. STORING. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1963. Pp. xi, 251. $5.00.)

• Author: Frank Munk
• Published date: 01 December 1964
• Date: 01 December 1964
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/106591296401700460
• Subject Matter: Articles

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four power blocs into a bilateral power structure in which the party-SS faced the
organized combinations of big business and the generals.&dquo;
The bilateral power structure disintegrated, thereby terminating the period of
&dquo;partial fascism&dquo; with its quadrapartite rule of functional specialization and political
interdependence, when &dquo;the policy of rearmament ran into great difficulties that
could not be resolved except through the adoption of a new economic policy&dquo; and
&dquo;when the split within the formerly united upper class enabled the Nazis to establish
themselves as the major holders of power in the regime.&dquo;
For the edification of economists, Professor Schweitzer authoritatively estab-
lishes in a modified form the greater conceptual applicability to an analysis of a semi-
totalitarian system Max Weber’s socioeconomic theories, particularly his concept of
&dquo;political capitalism,&dquo; in comparison with Keynesian theories. For the edification
of political scientists, he expertly describes the rise and fall of artisan socialism and
middle-class socialism as economic, political, and ideological movements. For the en-
lightenment of both professional specialties, Professor Schweitzer provides an illumi-
nating but concise insight into the dynamics of Nazi rearmament as an unprece-
dented but productive interaction of economic statism and organized capitalism.
Minor criticism might be justifiably directed at Professor Schweitzer’s overly
schematic analysis of the quadrapartite coalition as the mainstay of &dquo;partial fas-
cism.&dquo; This emphasis inclines him to treat the Nazi party as a too organically unified
pillar of power, while the state bureaucracy and Hitler’s &dquo;atomized&dquo; popular sup-
port are neglected as, at least, secondary pillars or sources of power. Finally, Pro-
fessor Schweitzer has allowed himself to become somewhat overly concerned with
Neo-Nazism as a potential fascist threat to the Bonn democracy....