Tag Archives: fascism

Abrogation of the Soul

Posted on February 16, 2009 by Lee

Somewhat tortuously, the State Department has congratulated the victory of Hugo Chavez’s referendum to revoke term limits on his rule as a victory for participatory democracy, while faintly recommending a new respect for multiparty pluralism. Consider for a moment if … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs | Tagged 22nd Ammendment, Barack Obama, Bush, constitutional order, constitutions, democracy, Domestic Politics, fascism, Gaza, Hamas, Hugo Chavez, international affairs, liberal democracy, liberalism, Obama, State Department, term limits | 5 Comments

Frank Miller’s Geostrategic Theory

Posted on December 22, 2008 by Lee

Frank Lovece sat down with Frank Miller for Newsday to discuss his upcoming film The Spirit. Toward the end of it Lovece asked Miller about remarks he’d made in 2007 in support of the Iraq War, and offered him an … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Foreign affairs, Military Matters | Tagged 1992, Afghanistan, al Qaeda, anti-Americanism, batman, comic books, Dark Knight, fascism, Frank Lovece, Frank Miller, geostrategy, Germany, Give Me Liberty, graphic novel, Hollywood, Holy Terror Batman, illustration, interview, Iran, Iraq war, Islamofascism, Jordan, Kuwait, Middle East, military geography, negative space, neoconservative, Newsday, Pearl Harbor, radio, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, social commentary, Syria, The Spirit, Turkey, Victor Davis Hanson | 17 Comments

How Fascism Happens

Posted on December 20, 2008 by Lee

All it really takes to get you to ignore the concentration camps right in front you of your eyes and turn you into a robot, is to say “hey, look at this.” That certainly wasn’t the purpose of this video, … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged concentration camp, fascism, Media, robot, video | 1 Comment

Poison from Austria

Posted on November 7, 2008 by Lee

If the public outpouring of mourning for the loss of fascist sympathizer Jörg Haider were not enough to injure your esteem for contemporary Austrian public affairs, here’s another such moment. Klaus Emmerich, the highly esteemed former editor of Austria’s state … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs, Race | Tagged Adolf Hitler, Angela Merkel, anti-Americanism, Austria, Austrians, Barack Obama, Beethoven, Daily Mail, fascism, Jörg Haider, Klaus Emmerich, ORF, Race, racism, Western Civilization | 2 Comments

Against Galt

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Lee

Synova wrote a little post that gets halfway to where I would come down on this perennial parlor game of the John Galt general strike. Sy recognized that to be successful, such a revolt would realistically be a miserable experience … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Culture, Lee's Page, Libertarianism | Tagged America, Aristotle, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Carl Schmitt, collectivism, Conservatism, constitutional order, Culture, democracy, epiphany, Eric Hoffer, fascism, futurism, Galt's Gulch, general will, government, group identity, guardians, ideology, individualism, John Galt, justice, liberal democracy, liberalism, Libertarianism, literary style, literature, materialism, Objectivism, Plato, popular democracy, radicalism, Randianism, revolt, revolution, Rousseau, salvation, sectionalism, seperatism, skepticism, socia, social justice, strike, war, William F Buckley | 25 Comments

When They Came for Kenny…

Posted on September 13, 2008 by Lee

Photos of Russian kids mounting a street protest against the banning of South Park by the state. This is no small or meaningless act. As daily experience, one of the worst aspects of living under a repressive fascist regime is … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Foreign affairs | Tagged boredom, entertainment, fascism, Kenny, liberalism, Media, opera, photos, pics, propaganda, Putinism, radio, repression, Russia, South Park, State, teenager, television, tv, youth | 1 Comment

Ethnostatism Fails

Posted on August 17, 2008 by Lee

The movement of “ethnic studies” curricula from colleges to public schools, is something that troubles many of us who have experienced such classes in modern times. Ethnic studies programs are often called “multiculturalist,” but since they tend to be monoethnic … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Education, Lee's Page | Tagged academia, academic, American history, Arizona, Arizona Republic, astrology, astronomy, Che Guevara, colleges, cultural, curriculum, Department of Education Reform, Doug Maceachern, ethnic studies, ethnostatism, fascism, government, History, Jay P. Greene, math, monoethnic, multiculturalism, non sequitur, political, public schools, raza studies, trigonometry, Tucson, Tucson Union School District, TUSD, University of Arkansas | 1 Comment

A New Libertarianism of Paranoid Revolt

Posted on August 2, 2008 by Lee

Jordan Page (who is a kind of Ronpaulist Joan Baez) reflects on the “Revolution March,” a July 12th Ron Paul protest rally in Washington DC, in part organized by Adam Kokesh (who of late believes the Washington police are involved … Continue reading →

Posted in Lee's Page, Libertarianism | Tagged Austrian Schoo, Chicago, Congo, conspiracy, corporate, Czeslaw Milosz, Dissent, fascism, huffington post, imperialism, Joan Baez, Jordan Page, Libertarianism, Marxist, Milton Friedman, Mises, Naomi Wolf, rights, Ronpaulism, Trotsky, United States, war | 24 Comments

Defending the Second World War

Posted on August 2, 2008 by Lee

Here’s a five part Uncommon Knowledge segment featuring a superb pairing of Christopher Hitchens and Victor Davis Hanson, to discuss the new World War II revisionism led by Pat Buchanan. While it’s an entertaining exercise for a Saturday, I’ll warn … Continue reading →

Posted in History | Tagged Christopher Hitchens, fascism, History, Pat Buchanan, Peter Robinson, revisionism, Uncommon Knowledge, Victor Davis Hanson, video, World War II, youtube | Leave a comment

George Lakoff: Neo-Syndicalist

Posted on June 23, 2008 by MichaelW

Over the weekend I read with fascination William Saletan’s review of the new offering from George Lakoff, “The Political Mind,” and was struck by the remarkable similarities between it and the revolutionary syndicalism espoused during the prior fin de siècle. … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Domestic Politics, Election 2008, History, Libertarianism, MichaelW's Page, Philosophy, social science | Tagged "The Political Mind", anti-rationalism, Barack Obama, collectivism, communism, Domestic Politics, Election 2008, fascism, fin de siecle, George Lakoff, History, individualism, langauge, Libertarianism, progressive movement, social myth, socialism, syndicalism, William Saletan | 5 Comments

What Else Fascism?

Posted on February 16, 2008 by Lee

There’s editorial sensationalism, and then there’s Keith Olbermann. Consider Mr. Olbermann on Bush recently: “If you believe in the seamless mutuality of government and big business, come out and say it! There is a dictionary definition, one word that describes … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Bush, business, cynicism, dictatorship, fascism, government, Keith Olbermann, militarism, nationalism, plutocracy, power, socialism, t-sirt | Leave a comment

Hillary & Identity Politics

Posted on January 15, 2008 by Lee

In expressing consternation that women on the Left could support Hillary Clinton solely on grounds of her gender, Bookworm notes that identity politics –the idea that a person’s innate factional qualities (race, gender, ethnicity, etc) confer immutable political values– is … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged fascism, gender, Hillary Clinton, identity, identity politics, Race | Leave a comment

Perfunction Awakens the Mighty King of Trolls

Posted on January 14, 2008 by Lee

The other day Perfunction posted David Duke’s political advice for the Ron Paul campaign. The noxious white nationalist’s recommendations being essentially that while Paul was great, he needs to be just a wee bit more, you know, anti-Semitic. Anyway, it … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic Politics, Humor, Society | Tagged , anti-semitism, David Duke, fascism, Iraq, Israel, Ron Paul, trolling, trolls | 5 Comments

Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

Posted on January 8, 2008 by Lance

Echoing a wonderful discussion we had in the fall of 2006 on the nature of Fascism (see here, here and here) Jonah Goldberg writes a book which bristles at the use of the term by the contemporary left. I would … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Culture, Domestic Politics, History, Lance's Page | Tagged capitalism, Domestic Politics, fascism, FDR, Germany, History, Hitler, Italy, left, liberalism, Mussolini, National Socialism, right, Roosevelt, socialism | 15 Comments

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