Jonah Goldberg @ The Heritage Foundation Part 1

This event...
Took place on: January 9th 2008,
Presented at: the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies,
Directed by: Matthew Spalding, Ph.D.,
Hosted by: The Heritage Foundation...

Author: Jonah Goldberg,
Title: "Liberal Fascism",
Subtitle: "The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning"...

Details:
"Fascists," "Brownshirts," "jackbooted stormtroopers"... conservatives are all too frequently tarred with such insulting labels. It's a way to cast conservative views as being somehow "beyond the political pale." Not only are the slurs unfair, they are historically misplaced as well.

In Liberal Fascism, Jonah Goldberg reminds us that the original fascists hailed from the left. An international movement, fascism took on different forms in different countries, reflecting the vagaries of national culture and temperament. Hitler's Nazis were ardent socialists. 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, supported abortion and gun control, and inserted the authority of the state into every nook and cranny of daily life.

While fascism in Germany found its ultimate expression as genocidal, racist nationalism, in America, it assumed a "friendlier" form. Many fascist tenets were espoused by American progressives like John Dewey and Woodrow Wilson, and FDR incorporated many of the movement's policies in the New Deal. If this observation sounds strange to modern ears, Goldberg argues, it's only because most Americans have forgotten the policies and principles that truly define fascism.

Jonah Goldberg is a nationally syndicated columnist and an editor-at-large for the National Review and the National Review Online.

Purchase "Liberal Fascism": (The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning) and read Jonahs Blog at National Review Online Here: http://liberalfascism.nationalreview.com/

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[itaman13]

i love how no one knows what fascism really is...

nazis and fascists are opposites... the policies are completely opposite of nazism and communism...

fascism stands alone in greatness... people please do your research

[jonnymordant]

Great argument, we'll all be sure to take note of your indisputable points and well researched facts... (end sarcasm here)!

[Volkmoidruk]

If America has a fascism opposed to "conservatives" -- after Bush and Cheney, I use the word ironically -- then why isn't Goldberg in a concentration camp as an Enemy Of the State? Uhhh, because the fascist wannabes are mostly Republicans? How many Dems endorsed Abu Ghraib, renditioning, Patriot Act spying on non-Muslims, etc.? Jonah looks a lot plumper than most Belsen inmates did! Goldberg is yet another NeoCon obscenely milking the Holocaust for an ass-licking corporate agenda.

[jonnymordant]

LOL! Watch the rest of the series and you'll see why you've exposed yourself as a TOTAL MORON!

You exemplify the kind of idiots he's talking about in this series... You couldn't even take the time to hear him out before calling him a Fascist, Nor have you provided anything historically factual to base your opinion on...

You have proven his whole Thesis... LMFAO!

[tomatogravy]

Liberals despise freedom of speech now that everyone is entitled to it and not just NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, etc. They are in a current battle to "kill the rich," as Ayers suggests. Think about it. Socialism means bigger government which gives more power to politicians/rulers and less and less to common people.  Is your freedom worth an extra years worth of food stamps?

[onemoreterm]

You're right - this is just brilliant. I've forwarded it to the boys. LOL typing NAZI in caps means it's irrefutable (what a funny man).

[valofvalhalla06]

I can't believe I missed this one. Well, we weren't friends when you put this up! :)

[darwinkilledgod]

nazis were big believers in ecological preservation, hitler was both a vegetarian for a lot of his life and passed Nazi Germany's first animal protection acts. Hitler also believed in the environmental catastrophe of his day, overpopulation and eugenes. It caused the Holocaust...it was in the papers, you must have heard of it.

Try reading Jonah's book instead of guzzling that koolaid you were referring to.

[mizilus]

republicans really are relying on the ignorance of their koolaid guzzling mindless folowers.

Yeah right, republicans, your usual accusation of kumbaya singing global warming save the whales hippies sure does jive with your branding of the same people as fascists.

Are you really that stupid?

[capvid88]

myhouseruleshere: You are a narrow-minded asshole.