'Propaganda...the substance of politics'

“When the means increasingly become substitutes for aims, one can almost say that, in these extreme right-wing movements, propaganda actually constitutes the substance of politics.”

Theodor Adorno, from a lecture he delivered in 1967 at the invitation of the Socialist Students of Austria at the University of Vienna, later made into a small book, “Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism”, Polity Press, 2020.