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American Fascists, by Chris Hedges
DIR By: forbitals
Date: October 17, 2019, 4:23 pm
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American Fascists
The Christian Right and the War On America
by Chris Hedges
HTML https://www.amazon.com/American-Fascists-Christian-Right-America/dp/0743284461/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=American+Fascists&qid=1570920324&sr=8-1
So a number of interesting books referred to.
Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism (2004)
Reinhold Niebuhr, The Irony of American History (1952)
Sara Diamond, Spiritual Warfare: the politics of the Christian
Right (1989)
--- Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power
in the United States (1995)
--- Not by politics alone: the enduring influence of the
Christian Right (1998)
William Slone Coffin, The Heart is a Little to the Left: Essays
on Public Morality (1999)
there is also James Luther Adams
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Luther_Adams
Chris Hedges was one of his students.
Hedges starts with this from Umberto Eco
HTML https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism
I find the above to be extremely insightful, but I only
partially agree with it. If you go with Eco, then Nietzsche is
is a fascist, and so are Deleuze and Guattari. I do not agree
with this.
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Re: American Fascists, by Chris Hedges
DIR By: forbitals
Date: November 4, 2019, 7:44 pm
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American Fascists
The Christian Right and the War On America
by Chris Hedges
"
In this version of the Christian Gospel, the exploitation and
abuse of other human beings is a good. Homosexuality is an
evil. And this global, heartless system of economic rationalism
has morphed in the rhetoric of the Christian Right into a test
of faith. The ideology it espouses is a radical evil, an
ideology of death. It calls wanton destruction, destruction of
human beings, of the environment, of communities and
neighborhoods, of labor unions, of a free press, of Iraqis,
Palestinians or others in the Middle East who would deny us oil
fields and hegemony, of federal regulatory agencies, social
welfare programs, public education--in short, the destruction of
all people and programs that stand in the way of a Christian
America and its God-given right to dominate the rest of the
planet. The movement offers, in return, the absurd but
seductive promise that those who are right with God will rise to
dominate the rest of the planet. The movement offers, in
return, the absurd but seductive promise that those who are
right with God will rise to become spiritual and material
oligarchs. They will become the new class. Those who are not
right with God, be they poor or Muslim or unsaved, deserve what
they get. In the rational world none of this makes sense. But
believers have been removed from a reality-based world. They
believe that through Jesus all is possible. It has become a
Christian duty to embrace the exploitation of others, to build a
Christian America where freedom means the freedom of the
powerful to dominate the weak. Since believers see themselves
as becoming empowered through faith, the gross injustices and
repression that could well boomerang back on most of them are of
little concern. They assuage their consciences with the small
acts of charity they or their churches dole out to the homeless
or the mission fields. The emotion -filled religious spectacles
and spiritual bromides compensate for the emptiness of their
lives. They are energized by hate campaigns against gays or
Muslims or liberals or immigrants. They walk willingly into a
totalitarian prison they are helping to construct. They yearn
for it. They work for it with passion, self-sacrifice and a
blinding self-righteousness.
"
Remembering the Greensboro Massacre of 1979, When KKK & Nazis
Killed 5 People in Broad Daylight
HTML https://www.democracynow.org/2019/11/4/greensboro_massacre_40th_anniversary#transcript
Hubert Dreyfus Interview - AI, Heidegger, Meaning in the Modern
World
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