“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.
WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP!
Unrepentant Fenian |
10.27.07 - 3:26 pm | #
Good afternoon, 'bats.
Does anyone REALLY read Pantsloads' literary abortions?
Really?
Terry C - Edwards/Kucinich 08 |
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10.27.07 - 3:27 pm | #
Hacktivism, a form of monkeywrenching.
usufructose |
10.27.07 - 3:28 pm | #
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.
What a fucking tool.
Unrepentant Fenian |
10.27.07 - 3:29 pm | #
Odd how they didn't wait until the book was finished to review it...
Editorial Reviews
"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."
fascism comes from the right, don't they know that
calling a left person a fascist shows little or no knowledge of history of the ideology
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Moonbootica, Der Rosenkavalier |
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10.27.07 - 3:29 pm | #
Somebody shoot me.
Please.
Long distance is preferable.
Barry from AK in Dubai |
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10.27.07 - 3:30 pm | #
The Nazis declared war on smoking, supported abortion, euthanasia, and gun control.
They did NOT support abortion.
In fact, one of the first things Hitler outlawed was birth control.
Women were to be breeders for the fatherland.
Terry C - Edwards/Kucinich 08 |
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10.27.07 - 3:31 pm | #
I think this website conveys far more relevance to right wing bloggers than they actually derserve.
Bobby, Who ♥ Kucinich |
10.27.07 - 3:31 pm | #
Barry!
how was Zeoy before you left for a islamo-fascist state?
plum p,better democrats please |
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10.27.07 - 3:31 pm | #
From Raw: Larry Flynt, editor and publisher of Hustler magazine, just told FOX Business Network’s Neil Cavuto that he’s “hoping to expose a bombshell” that will stand “Washington and the country on its head.” Within the next week or two, he says his magazine will expose a sex scandal of huge proportions involving a prominent United States Senator. Flynt refused to comment on the Senator’s political affiliation, but alluded that he or she is a Republican.
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10.27.07 - 3:31 pm | #
"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."
I'd forgotten how funny facsism is. Let's ask the Jews in Poland how funny fascism is. Oh right there aren't any Jews in Poland anymore.
Unrepentant Fenian |
10.27.07 - 3:31 pm | #
calling a left person a fascist shows little or no knowledge of history of the ideology
Moonbootica, Der Rosenkavalier
Moon, those assholes don't DO history.
It would require reading and thinking.
So much better to find out everything from Rush and Faux News.
Terry C - Edwards/Kucinich 08 |
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10.27.07 - 3:32 pm | #
only right wingers can develope into fascsist
fascism is a right wing ideology
its a load of cobblers linking the left to fascism when fascists would love to exterminate left wing leaders and parties
Moonbootica, Der Rosenkavalier |
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10.27.07 - 3:32 pm | #
Somebody shoot me.
Please.
Long distance is preferable.
Barry from AK in Dubai
Big Time is hunting this week!
usufructose |
10.27.07 - 3:32 pm | #
Good grief.
That's some funny shit.
Though I find it really depressing that an asshat like Jonah has a book contract.
fourlegsgood, gots torch du U? |
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10.27.07 - 3:33 pm | #
So DISH, Larry....DISH!
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10.27.07 - 3:34 pm | #
Llllliiiiindseeeeeeeyyyyyy!
V for Virginia |
10.27.07 - 3:34 pm | #
is that title for real?
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10.27.07 - 3:34 pm | #
Damn. I wanted to write an extremely glowing customer review that traces the author's unique and unmatched ability to put forth cogent and logically airtight arguments in the book to his mother's work spying for the Nixon campaign and providing fodder for the Clinton impeachment and even signed up but I have to buy a book a d wait for 24 hours.
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10.27.07 - 3:34 pm | #
JeffCO,
Thanks for posting that.
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10.27.07 - 3:34 pm | #
Flynt refused to comment on the Senator’s political affiliation, but alluded that he or she is a Republican.
Guesses anyone?
MJ Bialaski
oh! must be a big one! I say...Trent Lott!
plum p,better democrats please |
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10.27.07 - 3:34 pm | #
Shit like the propaganda put out by Coulter, Pantload, O'Wanker and the like almost make me want to burn books.
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10.27.07 - 3:35 pm | #
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10.27.07 - 3:35 pm | #
Guesses anyone?
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MJ Bialaski
Please sweet baby jesus let it be Mitch McConnell.
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10.27.07 - 3:35 pm | #
Barry!
how was Zeoy before you left for a islamo-fascist state?
plum p,better democrats please |
Others asked about her, and I did mange a screwed up internet call to home.
Zoey is snifing at food, but stll not using her mouth parts.
She is coming up from "sanctuary" in the lower level of the house, to complain to house frau about being hungry.
I dinno what to make of it, she can't be fed forever by a tube.
And I don't wanna put her down either.
Dillema, you has horns.
Barry from AK in Dubai |
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10.27.07 - 3:35 pm | #
Ahhh, I finally found what kind of bird has been singing me awake for the last year. It's a Crissal Thrasher, kind of rare and shy, which is why I had trouble finding any pictures of it.
This one isn't that great, and I suppose one of these days I'll get a shot myself, since that family of thrashers like my porch and will sit on it all the time.
They still have not gotten used to me enough that they will land when I'm sitting outside, though I've had them land on the plant stand right outside my living room and look me in the eye.
Here's a description and one of their songs from the what-bird site. They seem to have complex, mutable songs, which they copy somewhat from other birds. I like them better already, birds that don't honor copyright or DRM.
(click on the 'flashy' sound link.) http://identify.whatbird.com/
obj...l_Thrasher.aspx
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Doug |
10.27.07 - 3:36 pm | #
fascists would love to exterminate left wing leaders and parties
Moonbootica, Der Rosenkavalier
They would love to....but they're not going to.
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JeffCO |
10.27.07 - 3:36 pm | #
JeffCO -- what is that you're posting?
V for Virginia |
10.27.07 - 3:36 pm | #
OIC, never mind.
V for Virginia |
10.27.07 - 3:37 pm | #
Barry: i feel your pain. Zoey didn't deserved that at all. Poor sweety
plum p,better democrats please |
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10.27.07 - 3:37 pm | #
Militants in north-west Pakistan have beheaded six security officials and killed seven civilians in apparent reprisals for an army attack.
The army attack on the stronghold of pro-Taleban militant Maulana Fazlullah on Thursday left at least 17 soldiers and a number of civilians dead.
The bodies of the guards reportedly had notes saying they were American agents.
Swat is one of a number of areas near the Afghan border where militants have been gaining control in recent months.
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JeffCO |
10.27.07 - 3:37 pm | #
Men will have symmetrical facial features, deeper voices and bigger penises, according to Curry in a report commissioned for men's satellite TV channel Bravo.
Women will all have glossy hair, smooth hairless skin, large eyes and pert breasts, according to Curry.
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10.27.07 - 3:37 pm | #
Though I find it really depressing that an asshat like Jonah has a book contract.
fourlegsgood, gots torch du U?
I'm sure we'll see it for 79 cents at Big Lots before a year is up.
And do we know for a fact that the publisher paid him? Or was it the other way 'round?
Upsidasium |
10.27.07 - 3:37 pm | #
Yeah, those wonderful "Liberal" fascists . . . They fed us poorly. Our food consisted of a small piece of crusty bread and some watery soup. I was so hungry that I could eat it in seconds. They did not give us utensils to eat with; instead I would eat the bread and drink the soup. If a clump of something remained in the bottom of the soup bowl, I would scoop it up with my fingers. Someone said that sometimes the soup was made from ground human bones. I did not know if this were true, but I knew that things were changing within me. I had nearly lost my appetite, I was drugged most of the time, and I was in constant pain. As sick as I was, I tried my best to eat and pretend that I was fine. The alternative was the man cutting your foot with the scalpel and bleeding to death. I did not want to end up in that terrible dumpster: I pretended that everything was fine.
The next morning, I was awakened by the sounds of dogs growling and barking madly. I turned my head toward the open door and saw a sight I can never forget. A Jewish man, I did not know his name but remembered him because he had given me extra food in the cafeteria area when I first arrived at the compound, was on the ground, and the blonde SS guard was kicking him repeatedly. The man’s crime was to try to take some of the food the dogs had left in their dishes. The blonde man was cursing him and kicking him viciously. When the man passed out, the enforcer released the dogs. They attacked the man wildly, ripping pieces of his flesh from his body and eating them. The dogs were getting more and more brutal, and finally one of them ripped the man’s throat open, and he began bleeding wildly. Blood was spurting everywhere, and the dogs were licking it up as fast as it came. I started shaking in my bed. I felt so sorry for the man; he seemed to be a decent fellow. His crime of being hungry was not worthy of this brutal death.
The silent screams came again. They were with me nearly constantly now. I tried to think that it was God’s will that this man was killed in such a manner. But if God intended to end this man’s suffering, why did it have to be in such a terrible way? I had no answers.
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10.27.07 - 3:37 pm | #
They believed in free health care and guaranteed jobs.
Yes, there were SS doctors to provide health care to all those people in the camps working in their guaranteed jobs.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
10.27.07 - 3:37 pm | #
Crazy Republican sex parties like the one in Oliver Stone's JFK. Guys painted gold and watching weird black and white movies of wrestling and male gymnastics.
Unrepentant Fenian |
10.27.07 - 3:38 pm | #
You cannot do precision work with a crowbar.
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10.27.07 - 3:38 pm | #
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JeffCO |
10.27.07 - 3:38 pm | #
Zoey is snifing at food, but stll not using her mouth parts.
She is coming up from "sanctuary" in the lower level of the house, to complain to house frau about being hungry.
Well, that sounds encouraging.
fourlegsgood, gots torch du U? |
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10.27.07 - 3:38 pm | #
That page was hacked.
No reviews yet - obviously - but someone should "review" it anyway. How hard could it be?
usufructose |
10.27.07 - 3:39 pm | #
go flynt go...
i love the scandalous smell of white republican meat sizzling under the hot lights of tv news cameras...
abd if it's from Flint, it must be a sexual scandal, no?
LUGAR! he looks like someone who uses prostitutes services
plum p,better democrats please |
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10.27.07 - 3:39 pm | #
weird or just plain ewwwwww sex - Republican and Fundie specialty
Moonbootica, Der Rosenkavalier |
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10.27.07 - 3:40 pm | #
Barry: i feel your pain. Zoey didn't deserved that at all. Poor sweety
plum p,better democrats please
No she didn't and it's why I'm doing all I can for her.
When you guys say "poor baby", believe me I know what it means.
sorry Duncan to make this a forum for my cat.
Barry from AK in Dubai |
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10.27.07 - 3:40 pm | #
JeffCO -- what is that you're posting?
Those are the very funny tags to related items someone went to a lot of trouble to include.
JeffCO |
10.27.07 - 3:40 pm | #
Men will have symmetrical facial features, deeper voices and bigger penises, according to Curry in a report commissioned for men's satellite TV channel Bravo.
Women will all have glossy hair, smooth hairless skin, large eyes and pert breasts, according to Curry.
Gomez
"IN THE YEAR 2000"
All the men will look like Ron Jeremy and all the women will look like Renée Zellweger.
Unrepentant Fenian |
10.27.07 - 3:40 pm | #
Somebody shoot me.
Please.
Long distance is preferable.
Barry from AK in Dubai
Big Time is hunting this week!
Alas, Big Time is not an accurate shot at more than 50 meters, and that's with a shotgun, where accuracy isn't that important.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
10.27.07 - 3:40 pm | #
OK, whoever thinks of another keyword let us know so we can vote it up!
V for Virginia |
10.27.07 - 3:40 pm | #
d r a p e s
plum p,better democrats please |
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10.27.07 - 3:41 pm | #
I'm sure we'll see it for 79 cents at Big Lots before a year is up.
And do we know for a fact that the publisher paid him? Or was it the other way 'round?
Oh, I'm sure he got an advance. Wingnut welfare is lucrative.
It doesn't matter if it sells or not. Jonah has that, and a gig writing a column for the fucking LA Times.
And that just ain't right.
fourlegsgood, gots torch du U? |
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10.27.07 - 3:41 pm | #
oh! must be a big one! I say...Trent Lott!
I hope it's McConnell.
The fucker deserves it for starting a smear campaign against a kid.
Richard |
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10.27.07 - 3:41 pm | #
Doughy's unpublished book book has been up on Amazon for I dunno, around 2 years I think. Obviously he's having trouble fleshing out his thesis.
The revised title is new...
wtfwjd? |
10.27.07 - 3:41 pm | #
Eating a onion, Alaskian salmon, cream cheese, and wheat English muffin, open faced sammich, Shall I torment the dogs by offering the last half, to them without removing the onion?
Doug |
10.27.07 - 3:42 pm | #
they had unemployment insurance at trebl... (1)
Those are fucking HILARIOUS!
V for Virginia |
10.27.07 - 3:42 pm | #
All wing nut books are always ‘projection.’
Liberals are fascists
Liberals are the ones with no morals
Liberals are crooked.
Liberals are the ones with the elites. Blah blah blah.
sally |
10.27.07 - 3:42 pm | #
Well, that sounds encouraging.
fourlegsgood, gots torch du U? |
I need from HF that she ate, with her mouf.
This has been 2 months now..
I'm afraid I'm gonna be accused of playing with emotions, but this is real deal with me.
Barry from AK in Dubai |
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10.27.07 - 3:43 pm | #
Republican scandal?
Boy sex ring with Orrin Hatch as the Ringmaster.
Or just gay sex with brain dead, multiple amputees.
Which would explain the Iraq war, as they're hard to come by.
Alas, Big Time is not an accurate shot at more than 50 meters, and that's with a shotgun, where accuracy isn't that important.
Apprentice to Darth Holden
Perhaps that's Jonah's point. Only bleeding heart liberal fascists would have the officer of the firing squad detail walk over with his side arm to put a round in the head of the condemned afterwards. We Nazis just left them hanging on meat hooks.
SS Oberfuhrer Lederhosen |
10.27.07 - 3:46 pm | #
Of course Pantload does not address Hitler’s complete hatred of Communism, which caused him to invade Russia, before he had invaded Britain, and therefore made it much more difficult for America to help.
And what about Hitler’s claim that “Democracy always leads t socialism.”
Pantload is an idiot.
sally |
10.27.07 - 3:48 pm | #
God to fucking allmighty Flying Spaggetti monster I wihs I had my dad's balls to stuff a silver nitrate pencil up my nose and stop the dripping.
sorry.
Barry from AK in Dubai |
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10.27.07 - 3:51 pm | #
Well, I was wondering why Kay Bailey Hutchison retired. . .
MarkC |
10.27.07 - 5:36 pm | #
Oh, wait! Dole and Hutchison. That's my answer and I'm sticking to it.
MarkC |
10.27.07 - 5:41 pm | #
"I didn't want my son to be a competitive eater"-LBJ watching Jonah on the Godtron 3000
jr |
10.27.07 - 6:12 pm | #
Goldberg is resorting to a classic conservatives trick, one used by the authoritarians in Adolph Hitler's Nazi Party to the present-day authoritarians in the Karl Rove Republican Party.
Today's neo-Nazi conservatives in the Republican Party have even launched an attack against "the Jews," using the codename Hollywood, indicating to me at least that the Republican Party of today is employing the same tactics used by the Nazis in Germany 70 to 80 years ago, which makes one wonder why Jonah Goldberg is advocating the genocidal elimination in America of his own people.
Remember, in 2004, Goldberg was selected by USA Today (to replace Ann Coulter who'd been fired due to her hate-filled rants) to report on the Democratic presidential convention. Goldberg proceeded to smear all the Demmocrats, while propagandizing a number of lies (Republican Talking Points) in his op-ed effort. This was USA Today's attempt to provide "fair and balanced" Fox News-like coverage of the conventions.
The Oracle |
10.27.07 - 6:51 pm | #
Wow, the entire page is hilarious. At least I hope the paranoid right will breathe easier when they find out that "(t)he quintessential Liberal Fascist isn't an SS storm trooper; it is a female grade school teacher with an education degree from Brown or Swarthmore." Or have those Swarthmore chicks gotten tougher than I remember?
greg |
10.27.07 - 7:05 pm | #
Please let it be Kay Bailey Hutchinson.
troqua |
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10.27.07 - 7:20 pm | #
The page might not have been hacked. More likely, perhaps, the information from publisher/distributor was tampered with before a regularly scheduled upload update.
Rrrboy |
10.27.07 - 9:05 pm | #
This may have all been said, and all too well known - but the real comedy is that Goldberg has been working on this hyperbolic, bad-liberal-blaming POS for many years. Timothy Noah at Slate made a slightly snarky remark about the publication date being pushed back -- and BACK...and McDoughy had a name-calling little snit. (Blaming it all on the birth of his daughter, who's about ... yes.....four now.)
Plus he changed the name , which had Hillary in the original title, ("Liberal Fascism: The Totalitarian Temptation From Mussolini to Hillary Clinton"). Then Hillary was edited out, "Whole Foods" put in...I swear I didn't have an acid flashback and dream these things up.
He's a dreary, whiny, and thin-skinned bore, besides.
I just read a column by Son of Lucianne, Queen of Sleaze and he blamed all the nasty smear techniques from the last 20 years on Ted Kennedy. See...the Bork episode means the GOP had no chioce but to attack 12 year olds.
So I think this is kinda great.
T4TN |
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