Liberal Fascism (edit title)

Lance G edited the books with additional background information of Liberal Fascism 2 weeks ago.

• Added The Color of Fascism: Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the United States
• Added The Beast Reawakens: Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters to Today's Neo-Nazi Groups and Right-Wing Extremists
• Added Right-Wing Extremism in Contemporary Germany (New Perspectives in German Studies)

Lance G edited the books with additional background information of Liberal Fascism 2 weeks ago.

• Added Fascism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Timothy Gray approved Timothy Gray’s request to change the title of Liberal Fascism Sunday, November 1 2009.

Timothy Gray changed the title of Liberal Fascism Sunday, November 1 2009.

Timothy Gray approved DavidD’s request to change the title of Liberal Fascism Sunday, November 1 2009.

DavidD changed the title of Liberal Fascism Saturday, October 31 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of Liberal Fascism Friday, July 31 2009.

• “Fascists,” “Brownshirts,” “jackbooted stormtroopers”—such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents. Calling someone a fascist is the fastest way to shut them up, defining their views as beyond the political pale. But who are the real fascists in our midst? Liberal Fascism offers a startling new perspective on the theories and practices that define fascist politics. Replacing conveniently manufactured myths with surprising and enlightening research, Jonah Goldberg reminds us that the original fascists were really on the left, and that liberals from Woodrow Wilson to FDR to Hillary Clinton have advocated policies and principles remarkably similar to those of Hitler's National Socialism and Mussolini's Fascism. Contrary to what most people think, the Nazis were ardent socialists (hence the term “National socialism”). They believed in free health care and guaranteed jobs. They confiscated inherited wealth and spent vast sums on public education. They purged the church from public policy, promoted a new form of pagan spirituality, and inserted the authority of the state into every nook and cranny of daily life. The Nazis declared war on smoking, supported abortion, euthanasia, and gun control. They loathed the free market, provided generous pensions for the elderly, and maintained a strict racial quota system in their universities—where campus speech codes were all the rage. The Nazis led the world in organic farming and alternative medicine. Hitler was a strict vegetarian, and Himmler was an animal rights activist. Do these striking parallels mean that today’s liberals are genocidal maniacs, intent on conquering the world and imposing a new racial order? Not at all. Yet it is hard to deny that modern progressivism and classical fascism shared the same intellectual roots. We often forget, for example, that Mussolini and Hitler had many admirers in the United States. W.E.B. Du Bois was inspired by Hitler's Germany, and Irving Berlin praised Mussolini in song. Many fascist tenets were espoused by American progressives like John Dewey and Woodrow Wilson, and FDR incorporated fascist policies in the New Deal. Fascism was an international movement that appeared in different forms in different countries, depending on the vagaries of national culture and temperament. In Germany, fascism appeared as genocidal racist nationalism. In America, it took a “friendlier,” more liberal form. The modern heirs of this “friendly fascist” tradition include the New York Times , the Democratic Party, the Ivy League professoriate, and the liberals of Hollywood. The quintessential Liberal Fascist isn't an SS storm trooper; it is a female grade school teacher with an education degree from Brown or Swarthmore. These assertions may sound strange to modern ears, but that is because we have forgotten what fascism is. In this angry, funny, smart, contentious book, Jonah Goldberg turns our preconceptions inside out and shows us the true meaning of Liberal Fascism.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Liberal Fascism Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : Jonah Goldberg:

Peiyu W edited the quotations of Liberal Fascism Monday, July 20 2009.

• Added a quotation: “It assumes the organic unity of the body politic and longs for a national leader attuned to the will of the people”
• Added a quotation: “It is difficult to unite a people by talking only on the highest ethical plane”
• Added a quotation: “The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialization of the selective breeding of man”

Shelfari edited the contributors of Liberal Fascism Monday, July 20 2009.

• Added a contributor: Jonah Goldberg: (Primary Author)