{"id":3329,"date":"2010-02-07T18:14:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T18:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3329"},"modified":"2010-02-07T18:23:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T18:23:08","slug":"get-out-your-godwins-law-o-meter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3329","title":{"rendered":"Get Out Your Godwin’s Law-O-Meter"},"content":{"rendered":"

HNN<\/a> <\/strong>is running a symposium on Jonah Goldberg’s<\/a><\/strong> recent book, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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While I know a great deal about the historical period in question, I have not read Goldberg’s book, so I am not going to comment on\u00a0his core\u00a0proposition except to say that IMHO,\u00a0I tend to find arguments that the intellectual roots of Fascism and Nazism\u00a0are located\u00a0exclusively on one side of the political spectrum are flatly and demonstrably wrong. Goldberg’s polemical thesis though,\u00a0yields a hysterical reaction because he is\u00a0jubilantly shredding the hoary (and false) assertion of the academic Left,\u00a0going back to\u00a0the pre-Popular Front\u00a0Communist Party line of the 1930’s, that Fascism is a form of radicalized conservatism and a secret\u00a0pawn of big business capitalism.<\/p>\n

Therefore, the following series amounts to an intellectual food fight between\u00a0Goldberg and (mostly)\u00a0a band of clearly enraged Leftist professors. Enjoy!:<\/p>\n

HNN Special: A Symposium on Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n