In this 1943 text, first published in English translation in 1945 in Contemporary Jewish Record, Alexandre Koyré analyzes the open conspiracy and its mechanism, which includes the necessity for the leader to constantly remain in the limelight and to ceaselessly deceive the rank and file among his supporters, and proposes to read totalitarianism itself as functioning like a secret society.

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