The true nature of fascism

Everyone seems to have an opinion about what Fascism is; there is a much more balanced understanding brought out in the book, "Modern Fascism: Liquidating the Judeo-Christian Worldview"
By Gene Edward Veith, Jr.

Lewis W. Spitz, Professor of History, Stanford University writes about this book:

It turns out that fascism is not merely German jingoism or a romantic delusion about the superiority of the Aryan race. Fascism is a philosophy which came to full form in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, but whose roots reach much further back into history and which continues to send out its tendrils into modern Western culture. It is marked by its love of death, its hatred of transcendence, its insistence that individuals surrender their individual rights for the sake of the state, and its exaltation of raw power.

The preface of the book explains the importance of understanding fascism:

We must know what fascism is so that we can recognize it when we see it. This will mean undoing certain misconceptions. Fascism is not conservatism. It is not the “right wing” as the polar opposite of the “left wing.” Such simplistic definitions and neat dichotomies may carry some truth, but they hide more than they reveal. Specifically, they hide the modern-ness of fascism, its appeal to progressives and the avant-garde. Fascism has always been on the cutting edge.

It is particularly important to know, precisely, why the Nazis hated the Jews. Racism alone cannot explain the virulence of Nazi anti-Semitism. What did they see in the Jews that they thought was so inferior? What was the Jewish legacy that, in their mind, so poisoned Western culture? What were the Aryan ideals that the Nazis sought to restore, once the Jews and their influence were purged from Western culture?

The fascists aligned themselves not only against the Jews but against what the Jews contributed to Western civilization. A transcendent God, who reveals a transcendent moral law, was anathema to the fascists. Such transcendence, they argued, alienates human beings from nature and from themselves. Fascist intellectuals sought to forge a new spirituality of immanence, focused upon nature, human emotions, and the community. The fascists sought to restore the ancient pre-Christian consciousness, the ancient mythic sensibility, in which individuals experience unity with nature, with each other, and with their own deepest impulses.

Fascism was essentially a spiritual movement. It was a revolt against the Judeo-Christian tradition, that is to say, against the Bible.

The claim made by Veith in that last paragraph is the genius of this book, the unifying principle that enables him to make his case that fascism was not only not destroyed, it has continued to thrive and flourish in that it provides a philosophical framework those who would pursue the liquidation of the Judeo-Christian worldview—a goal that most of us would agree is high on the cultural agenda in these postmodern times.

As you puzzle over the resurgence of paganism, the satisfaction that our culture takes in the slaughter of forty million unborn children [now 47,000,000], the developing ethic that will grant continuing life only to those whose “quality of life” merits such, the pragmatism that approves of our bending the rest of the world to our will simply because we have the power to do so, the suspicion of anyone who appears to question any aspect of the American Way of Life, the hope with which the evangelical community looks to its Commander in Chief to handle a situation which they are certain that God Himself was incapable of preventing—as you puzzle over these things, consider that they are all manifestations of the fascist philosophy, and as such are part of an ongoing effort to eradicate Christian thought from society.


Read this book before you start writing about the subject.