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🗓️ 3 September 2018
⏱️ 55 minutes
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In this episode, esteemed Yale historian and scholar of European history, Dr. John Merriman, joins Brett to discuss the history of Fascism in the 20th century, and its insurgent RE-rise in the US and Europe today.
If you want to hear Dr. Merriman's full history lecture on Fascism, you can find that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRSrSml1Hvw
You can find out more about John, including all of his books, here: https://history.yale.edu/people/john-merriman
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0:00.0 | Fascism is in the air all over the place. |
0:02.6 | And the kinds of the main elements of fascism that I list, |
0:07.1 | if you sit in that book, if you think about them, |
0:09.2 | they all apply to Hitler and to the people who follow them. |
0:11.8 | Anti-communist, anti-socialist, anti-vimar, |
0:15.9 | the role of the economic crisis with long, long memories |
0:19.2 | and hating the allies and hating the Jews |
0:21.5 | and hating the socialist violence. |
0:24.9 | That not-sees are, and other fascist groups are better |
0:28.9 | at saying whom they were against than what they wanted. |
0:32.6 | A lot of say, what they want is ultra-nationalism. |
0:35.9 | What they want is the totalitarian state |
0:38.1 | and the destruction of parliamentary rule. |
0:40.7 | What they want is a dictator. |
0:43.0 | They want to cadule, as Franco was. |
0:45.6 | They want to duce, as Mussolini called himself. |
0:49.0 | They want to fure her. |
0:50.4 | They want a leader who incarnates in that mystical body |
0:54.3 | as they would view it, the aspirations of the German people. |
1:00.2 | And part of what, whom you were, is who you were excluding. |
1:03.9 | You have a valkish community in the perverse biological, |
1:08.0 | racism of these people and other people who aren't in it |
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