Eliasberg's main point is that democracy allowed itself to be deprived of a great idealistic weapon by mistaking the fascists' propaganda psychology for propaganda in general and he suggests remedying this mistake. His paper contains many interesting but often barely related observations on social psychology. The disjointed character of the article is in part due to Eliasberg's need to refer to his nineteen other publications. The reader's difficulties are heightened by an unfortunate style which often reads like a poor translation from the German.