[Peace-discuss] The myth of a new Nazism

[David Green]

https://nostalgiatrap.libsyn.com/nostalgia-trap-episode-85-daniel-bessner

Daniel Bessner, Greenberg's co-author in the Weimar Analogy, has also put
forward an analysis of the Rand Corporation and the rise of the post WW II
defense intellectuals, including emigrees like Hans Speyer.

I found this interview fascinating.

DG

On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 9:04 PM C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

>
> http://www.spiked-online.com/spiked-review/article/the-myth-of-a-new-nazism/21679#.W3I3ipNKiSO
>
> [Corey Robin] This is a really excellent interview with Udi Greenberg,
> who's a European historian and specialist on Weimar, on why the analogy to
> fascism and Nazism is both historically inaccurate *and* politically
> unhelpful, if not dangerous. Among the historical differences he cites
> between the lead-up to the Nazis and today are the non-contingent
> centrality of anticommunism and class conflict to fascist politics, the
> glorification of war as an end unto itself (not just rhetorically but in
> practice; parenthetically, this was one of the reasons why I always found
> the fascist analogy much more persuasive, and why I pursued it, in the
> context of the neocons in the Bush regime, who really did celebrate warfare
> as an end unto itself), and the pervasiveness of mass political violence
> (forget the fascist analogy; there is far less mass violence in the streets
> today in the US than there was in the 1960s). That's part of the historical
> argument, which many of us have been pressing since this analogy first got
> invoked. The political argument—about how fascist analogies have worked
> among intellectuals throughout the 20th century, which comes from Daniel
> Bessner's new book as well as Udi's—is even more interesting, but you
> should read the interview.
>
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