Decline and Fall: Europe’s Slow Motion Suicide
“The Totalitarian Temptation from Hegel to Whole Foods…
The incoherence of our political discourse results in part from sheer ignorance of political philosophy and its history. Abetted by a superficial media, we trade in sound-bite labels and epithets, free-floating signifiers that communicate not ideas but feelings or prejudices––“conservative,” “liberal,” “progressive,” and of course “fascist” are all terms that seldom have any accurate meaning. This sloppiness makes it more difficult to conduct the political debate where it should be: at the level of fundamental assumptions about human nature, the proper role of government, and the goods suitable for the state to pursue…”
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As we see it ‘ism’ is what make a teoretical Europe and a teoretical European, but at least the European is an absolute. That’s the reason why the New Europe does fit the European. You could also call New Europe an ideologic construction. Experience shows they all have the same ends.
Daniel Pipes’ outstanding contribution to explain the concept Liberal Fascism (indholdet på linket og bogen er oversat til dansk)
Suppplement: Union There and Return – dansk udgave
Sonia








Her mangler åbenlyst en henvisning til Liberal Fascism, som jeg lige har fået mit eksemplar af.
Ikke pligt- men lyst-læsning for enhver konservativ. AFA, derimod, må græde snot over at se deres forbilleder så nådesløst eksponeret…
Comment af Henrik Ræder Clausen — januar 23, 2008 @ 11:03 am
Nej, der mangler ikke noget; jeg hentede den ikke der. Behøver vi træde i såret?
Comment af Sonia Wahnloop — januar 23, 2008 @ 11:47 am
Der er ikke noget sår at træde i. Det er bare så fremragende en bog i sammenhængen.
Comment af Henrik Ræder Clausen — januar 25, 2008 @ 5:17 pm
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