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“American Progressivism—the moralistic social crusade from which modern liberals proudly claim descent—is in some respects the major source of the fascist ideas applied in Europe by Mussolini and Hitler.”
― Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
― Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
“Progressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles don’t matter. It also highlights the real fascist legacy of World War I and the New Deal: the notion that government action in the name of “good things” under the direction of “our people” is always and everywhere justified.”
― Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
― Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
“The Nazis played the same games against Jews that today’s left plays against 'Eurocentrism,' 'whiteness,' and 'logocentrism.' When you hear a campus radical denounce 'white logic' or 'male logic,' she is standing on the shoulders of a Nazi who denounced 'Jewish logic' and the 'Hebrew disease'...The white man is the Jew of liberal fascism.”
― Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
― Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
“This is why the Third Way is also authoritarian. It assumes that the right man—or, in the case of Leninists, the right party—can resolve all of these contradictions through sheer will. The populist demagogue takes on the role of the parent telling the childlike masses that he can make everything “all better” if they just trust him.”
― Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
― Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
“We tend to forget that unity is, at best, morally neutral and often a source of irrationality and groupthink. Rampaging mobs are unified. The Mafia is unified. Marauding barbarians bent on rape and pillage are unified. Meanwhile, civilized people have disagreements, and small-d democrats have arguments. Classical liberalism is based on this fundamental insight, which is why fascism was always antiliberal. Liberalism rejected the idea that unity is more valuable than individuality. For fascists and other leftists, meaning and authenticity are found in collective enterprises—of class, nation, or race—and the state is there to enforce that meaning on everyone without the hindrance of debate.”
― Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
― Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
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