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These principles purport to summarize what made Goebbels tick or
fail to tick. They may be thought of as his intellectual legacy. Whether
the legacy has been reliably deduced is a methodological question.
Whether it is valid is a psychological matter. Whether or when parts
of it should be utilized in a democratic society are profound and disturbing problems of a political and ethical nature.[Edit: upon reading, it supports Linebarger's thesis that propagandists everywhere do basically the same job]