"They attacked liberalism because it seemed to them the principle premise of modern society......

[marmar]

......; everything they dreaded seemed to spring from it: the bourgeois life, Machesterism, materialism, parliament and the parties, the lack of political leadership. Even more, they sensed in liberalism the source of all their inner sufferings. Theirs was a resentment of loneliness; their one desire was for a new faith, a new community of believers, a world with fixed standards and no doubts, a new national religion that would bind all Germans together. All this, liberalism denied. Hence, they hated liberalism, blamed it for making outcasts of them, for uprooting them from their imaginary past, and from their faith."

---- Fritz Stern, from his study on the rise of Germanic ideology.



The more things change....... :think:

[LeftHander]

1. good find....nt

[Jack Bone]

2. nice...k&r..nt

[fascisthunter]

3. YES... Excellent Find

That statement applies to today so well....

[Echo In Light]

4. Chris Hedges' book, American Fascists, outlines this quite well

The Right's appeal is grounded in preying upon the systematically disillusioned/disfranchised.