Terms like fascist and fascism get thrown around indiscriminately by people who know how toxic they are and who want to demonize their opponents. But almost nothing and no one accused of fascism these days has the slightest connection to genuine fascism, and the result is confusion. What was fascism really all about? Paul Gottfried joins us for a lesson in intellectual history.
About the Guest
Paul Gottfried is professor emeritus of humanities at Elizabethtown College and a Guggenheim recipient.
Essay Discussed
“Who Isn’t Fascist?” by Paul Gottfried
Book Mentioned
Leftism: From De Sade and Marx to Hitler and Marcuse, by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Guest’s Website
Selected Books by the Guest
Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt: Toward a Secular Theocracy
Conservatism in America: Making Sense of the American Right
The Strange Death of Marxism: The European Left in the New Millennium
After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State
Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America
Previous Appearance
Ep. 87 World War I: Sleepwalk to Suicide (Paul Gottfried)
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