![]() ![]() The first appearance of modern totalitarianism in the Western world wasn’t in Italy or Germany but in the United States of America. ![]() Indeed, it is my argument that during World War I, America became a fascist country, albeit temporarily. P.7īefore the war, fascism was widely viewed as a progressive social movement with many liberal and left-wing adherents in Europe and the United States… - P.9 ![]() In reality, they are closely related, historical competitors for the same constituents. This fact - an inconvenient truth if there ever was one - is obscured in our time by the equally mistaken belief that fascism and communism are opposites. Instead, it is, and always has been, a phenomenon of the left. The major flaw in all of this is that fascism, properly understood, is not a phenomenon of the right at all. (Liberal) logic seems to be that multiculturalism, the Peace Corps, and such are good things - things that liberals approve of - and good things can’t be fascist by simple virtue of the fact that liberals approve of them. You’ll get a sense of that as you read these quotes… ![]() Although it’s not as witty as Goldberg’s columns, it’s a well researched, incredibly important book that will change the way you view fascism, Nazism, and liberalism. ![]()
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