Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change
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- Started reading:
- March 7, 2010
- Finished reading:
- May 23, 2010
Review
Rating: 10
Over the years, I always wondered why fascism was associated with the right when it had, in fact, grown out of a desire for a more local socialism (as opposed to the international socialism the communists were offering). The truth is that fascism, or national socialism, grows from a desire to build the socialist utopia inside a nation.
Goldberg does an excellent job extracting the lineage of fascism and the environment that birthed it. He goes out of his way to say that socialist leanings do not imply racism or genocide, but they do tend to lead toward totalitarianism.
Reading this book while the health care debate was going on in the US provided startling parallels. Liberals mean well, but they are simply mistaken. Giving control of major portions of our life to “experts” will not make us all happy. It’ll make us all equally miserable.
This is a great scholarly analysis and careful description of the ideas that make up fascism and how they more closely resemble the policies of the left than the right.
