Liberal Fascism

En Boca del cangrejo: manglaria el 2008.11.14

Uncritical Exuberance? Very few of us are immune to the exhilaration of this time. My friends on the left write to me that they feel something akin to "redemption" or that "the country has been returned to us" or that "we finally have one of us in the White House." Of course, like them, I discover myself feeling overwhelmed with disbelief and excitement throughout the day, since the thought of having the regime of George W. Bush over and gone is an enormous relief. And the...

En Ecuador Ciencia - Artículos científicos el 2008.11.03

Libro: JONAH GOLDBERG: LIBERAL FASCISM. Doubleday (Nueva York), 2008, 496 páginas. Liberal Fascism es de esa clase de libros que desafían las ideas predominantes de su tiempo. Por ello, es probable que, más que criticado, sea marginado.<BR> <BR>Dado que hoy en día el término fascista se suele emplear con cierta alegría, en general con intención peyorativa, me parece buena idea que Goldberg empiece hablando del auténtico fascismo, esto es,...

En BlogBis el 2008.08.01

Somos ingratos con el capitalismo al cual le debemos que la humanidad haya podido salir de su natural estado de pobreza, opina el jóven y brillante Jonah Goldberg. Gordberg es autor de un libro que demuele mitos impuestos a la sociedad por la izquierda: Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning. For generations, many thought prosperity was material stuff: factories and forests, gold mines and gross tons of concrete poured. But we now know...

En aangirfan el 2008.04.28

Prior to World War I, there were several great empires and prospective empires, usually in competition with each other. These empires and prospective empires included the British, the German, the American, the Austrian, the Russian, the Turkish, the French and the Zionist ( Zionism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). Some people might add the empires of the arms dealers and bankers. World War I was a disaster. It led to communism in Russia; it led to fascism in many parts of Europe. Certain people were...

En Palencia Liberal el 2008.02.19

Me he encontrado en El Imparcial con un magnífico artículo escrito por el catedrático de Opinión Pública, Alejandro Muñoz-Alonso, que recomiendo encarecidamente a todos esos ?progres? que se pasan el día insultando a los que no pensamos como ellos al grito de: ¡¡¡FASCISTAS!!! El artículo habla sobre el libro ?Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning? de Jonah Goldberg. No olvidéis tener en cuenta que en Estados Unidos, el término liberal es lo que...

En weblogart - internet and arts el 2008.01.15

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...

En Autentico Ecuatoriano Reloaded el 2007.06.17

El Ministro venezolano del Interior dijo hace poco en referencia a las protestas estudiantiles en favor de obtener mayores libertades que exhibían: "actitud fascista" y esconden la "intención" de desestabilizar el Gobierno del presidente Hugo Chávez. Tremenda perla, ¿verdad? Sólo para ilustrar el punto acudamos al auxilio de la Wikipedia y veamos que nos tiene que decir del FASCISMO. Fascism is an authoritarian political ideology (generally tied to a mass movement) that considers...

En El pellejo de la breva el 2007.06.06

1.- El más sencillo. En español. Hacer el test Mis resultados: ------------------- 2.- Este está en inglés y es muy "americano" pero al menos no es como los test de la Superpop. Es fácil de hacer. Hacer el test Mis resultados: You scored as Green, Democrat 92% Green 92% Anarchism 58% Fascism 58% Socialist 58% Communism 33% Republican 17% Nazi 8% Nota: cómo esto está valorado según el punto de vista de EEUU, ser republicano significa del Partido Republicano de George W. Bush. (En España equivaldría, por...

En :: el útero de marita :: el 2007.05.31

Mientras Hugo Chávez empieza a censurar Internet, mientras empiezan a morir estudiantes venezolanos, mientras nuestros Chavez wannabe se suben al coche de los petrodólares, todo en nombre del "socialismo", uno se pregunta si esto es izquierda o en qué momento todos nos volvimos locos. Y, no. A pesar de que Chávez, Evo, Correa y etcéteras de miniCastros se llenen la boca, esto no es socialismo. Vale la pena recordar un artículo de The Economist, The Return of Populism. Fue publicado hace un año,...

En Desde el Exilio el 2007.04.15

I recently had a dream that British marines fought back, like their forefathers of old, against criminals and pirates. When taken captive, they proved defiant in their silence. When released, they talked to the tabloids with restraint and dignity, and accepted no recompense. I dreamed that a kindred German government, which best knew the wages of appeasement, cut-off all trade credits to the outlaw Iranian mullahs ? even as the European Union joined the Americans in refusing commerce with this...

En Virtù e Fortuna el 2007.02.19

War of ideas The Spanish civil war united a generation of young writers, poets and artists in political fervour. The wrong side may have won, but in creating the world's memory of the conflict, the pen, the brush and the camera have had the more lasting triumph, argues Eric Hobsbawm Saturday February 17, 2007 The Guardian The film Casablanca (1942) has become a permanent icon of a certain kind of educated culture, at least among older generations. The cast will still be familiar, I hope: Humphrey Bogart,...

En The Devils' Excrement el 2007.01.21

Good and provocative reading in today's papers, I thought of translating some of it, but there is so much, that I can just point out to those that speak Spanish where the good or interesting stuff is: ---Historian Manuel Caballero talks about how behind the call for "popular power" Chavez is simply concentrating more power and how Chavez misunderstands the Russian revolution, where the workers were not asking to own the factories, they already owned them, but they wanted peace. Some quotes: "In my book...

En venepoetics el 2006.07.20

I've just finished reading Stephen Spender's 1938 play Trial of a Judge, so much of it seeming to be an obsessive, stylized portrait of the specter of fascism. The cast includes blatantly symbolic characters, including a liberal judge, his communist fellow cell mates, all jailed by the black-shirted fascist youth of an unnamed European city. At key scenes, we see black shirts and red shirts on opposite sides of the stage, slogans and conspiration. Spender as a playwright in the 1930s is like watching John...