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Category Archives: Fascism
Fascism: The Career Of A Concept
Here are some highlights from this 2016 book by Paul Gottfried: * I should mention an irritant without which this book would not have been conceived. While listening to TV and reading newspapers from both here and western Europe, I … Continue reading
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Tabletmag: Digital Fascism: Anti-PC Idol-Smashing Isn’t Just a Joke – Internet trolls, ritualized social-media cruelty, online cesspools, and their real-world political effects
Jacob Siegel wrote the thoughtful profile of Paul Gottfried a few months ago. Jacob Siegel and Angela Nagle write for Tabletmag: After Charlottesville, the mask of irony that wrong-footed so many commentators was ripped from the U.S. alt-right. And more … Continue reading
LAT: ‘How Hitler’s fascism almost took hold in Los Angeles’
Pat Morrison writes: Hiler didn’t have to set foot out of Germany for his malign plans to be felt beyond the Reich’s borders — even here in Los Angeles. Through the depths of the Depression right into World War II, … Continue reading
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Andrew Joyce & Kevin MacDonald – Beyond Good And Evil
From an objective perspective, I do not see how one can love or hate any group. The world consists of blacks and whites, mosquitos and Mexicans, lions and lambs, and these different forms of life have different evolutionary group strategies. … Continue reading
The Fascism Of Yaakov Moshe Harlap
In his fifth lecture on R. Yaakov Moshe Harlap, Marc Shapiro says: “His stress on the land of Israel…is not just super-Zionism but bordering on fascism. If you tell me that is the Jewish approach, then the Jewish approach is … Continue reading
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Chrissie Hynde – Nazi?
Comments at Steve Sailer: * While PeTA is not a ‘nazi’ organization, there are certainly parallels between the esoteric aspects of National Socialism and the animal rights movement, both of which reference the Vedic Hindu traditions and doctrines. Hitler himself … Continue reading
Paul Gottfried’s FASCISM: THE CAREER OF A CONCEPT Explains Why Elites Believe Trump Is A Fascist
From VDARE: Donald Trump is “how fascism comes to America,” says Robert Kagan. The New Yorker warns fascism “can happen here” [Going There With Donald Trump, by Adam Gopnik, May 11, 2016]. Martin O’ Malley complains about Trump’s “fascist appeal” … Continue reading
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Is Sharp Turn to Right Planting ‘Seeds of Fascism’ in Israel?
Forward: A military affairs commentator interrupts his broadcast to deliver a monolog: I’m alarmed by what’s happening in Israel, he says, I think my children should leave. Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak warns of “the seeds of fascism.” Moshe Arens, … Continue reading
Another Anti-Fascist Play
A friend says: Alone in the bathroom, I just snapped some Roman salutes, ironically of course. It made me feel amazing. Try it when the door is locked. Do it looking in the mirror. Wow. What a flood of power. … Continue reading
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Republican Terror and Anger
Paul Gottfried writes: David Frum in The Atlantic (January/February 2016) perceptively observes that the emotion of college students when they mounted the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations pales in import beside the feelings being released by Trump’s candidacy. Among Republican voters … Continue reading