Abstract

The essay starts from an observation: the thesis of the biopolitical and neoliberal government as the only form of contemporary power is no longer sustainable. Our contemporaneity shows in an incontrovertible way the return of nationalism and the forms of Caesaristic, autocratic and basically totalitarian power that coexist peacefully with globalization and the world market. The essay tries to thematize the two forms of power through the reconstruction of two fundamental texts of economic, political and moral reflection: Ludwig von Mises’s Human action which places individual choice at the basis of the social order reads society only as terrain of exchange and Georges Bataille’s The Psychological Structure of Fascism who, in the wake of Freud’s Psychology of the Masses and Analysis of the Ego, recognizes the social autonomy from the individual and bases it on the mechanisms of identification with the figure of the Führer.