Mutilated children from the Congo Free State A Congolese man looking at the hand and foot of his daughter Cartoon criticizing Leopold’s rule I’ll give the last word to one of Leopold’s contemporaries. It’s no wonder that Mark Twain wrote, In fourteen years Leopold has deliberately destroyed more lives than have suffered death on all […]
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Dr. Seuss: Not Just a Children’s Author
Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, is one of the most beloved children’s authors in the United States. Although he died in 1991, the stories of Dr. Seuss continue to delight and amuse young audiences across the nation. Just today, the college where I teach held its annual Dr. Suess Day. There was […]
What German Fascism Adds to the Witch’s Brew
German fascism is the most notorious of all for its destructive actions, and rightly so. It is time, then, to examine what Germany added to the basic beliefs of fascism described in my last blog. Heading the list is the idea of scapegoating enemies for the problems of society. Of course, Jewish people headed this […]
Fascism’s Core Beliefs – What Are Its Dominant Values and Ideas?
So far, I’ve described some of the ideas of fascism and how it related (usually negatively) to the other philosophies of government and society of the 1920s and 1930s. In this post I’d like to examine some of fascism’s core beliefs that most fascist movements shared. I hope that fascism’s belief in the importance of […]
Comparing Fascism to Other Philosophies
It is now time for comparing fascism to other styles of government. With the bogus idea that fascism was a leftist political movement dispelled in the last post, let us examine the aspects of fascism that make it different from other political movements. I will do so by discussing the ways that it differed ideologically […]
Fascism is Not a Left-Wing Movement
In recent years I’ve seen a few attempts by some confused conservative commentators to reclassify fascism from a right-wing political movement to a left-wing one. In reality, fascism is not a left-wing movement. Actually, I shouldn’t call the commentators confused. They know exactly what they are trying to accomplish with this subterfuge. After discarding all […]