antiz’s Reviews > Fascism and Theatre: Comparative Studies on the Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Europe, 1925-1945 > Status Update

“Art is not detached from the society that produces it, but rather it reflects and shapes public consciousness.”

“The study of history is of topical relevance to contemporary developments in the political and social fields.”

Increase in racist attacks and attack on refugees and migrant workers linked to rise of far right in Europe (this was in the 1990s but is absolutely true today too)

“There can be no doubt that the economic crisis of the early 1990s [when this book was written I think] has led to a resurgence of phenomena that bear a close resemblance to the fascist mass movements resulting from the acute hardships endured during the early and the late 1920s.”

“…the atrocities committed against the internal opposition…”

“Do we seriously believe that we would have been immune? (…) It had filled us with horror to realize all that man is capable of, and of which, therefore, we too are capable. (C.G. Jung, Zurich 1946)