Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They are an individualistic people which a generation of Fascism has been unable to regiment. . . . They know they are in the grip of a tyranny. Some few like it and get fat on it. Most of them seem to accept it with a grumbling resignation, and the capacity for revolt does not appear to be, at present, in them...
...comments on communism and socialism are perhaps the poorest section of the volume; the discussion of purely literary topics is the best. Allston's (alias Brooks) belief that fascism is scarcely an important topic in surveying the American mind and that a sort of Arthurian joy of combat is much stronger than economic determinism in directing human activities seems somewhat dated at this time. In the literary sections Brooks preaches, as he has already done in several previous volumes that, "Literature has been out on a branch. We must return to the trunk." By which he means that modern writers...
...result of the supposed wreck is an almost universal claustrophobia, a feeling that everybody is trapped by the debris, and that the ways out are worse than the fact of being trapped. The alternative posed by Author Lerner, for example, is totalitarian socialism as an escape from totalitarian fascism. Author Chamberlin, on the other hand, deems it wiser simply to lie low, meanwhile poking in the wreck age, in the hopeless hope that some clue will somehow lead to some other escape...
Autopsy. Author Chamberlin doubts "whether most Americans realize the ex tent of the fall of liberal civilization in Europe, the thorough sweep of old stand ards and values." In chapters like The Russian Revolt Against Civilization; Ital ian Fascism: Middle Class Bolshevism; The German Power Machine; The Clash of Revolutions in the Orient; The Fall of France; America Faces the Iron Age, he makes sure that they will...
...local of the Teamsters' Union, are victims of the first important attack on free speech at least since 1939. As we move towards war, the danger to civil liberties increases. If this initial battle is lost, the danger will be even greater, and we may find ourselves fighting off fascism from without, only to have it destroy us from within...