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Title: Modern Fascism: Liquidating the Judeo-Christian Worldview (Concordia Scholarship Today) by Gene Edward, Jr. Veith ISBN: 0-570-04603-3 Publisher: Concordia Publishing House Pub. Date: February, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.36 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Amazing Connections
Comment: Dr. Veith wrote this well researched book to explain why fascism as best personified by Nazi Germany in the 1930's and 40's can be seen in today's culture. Veith uses an amazing amount of source material to craft an intricate series of arguments that expose the philosophical underpinnings of fascism, as well as arguing how that philosophy has been adopted by intellectuals today.
Fascism, and especially Nazism, have been made out to be the ultimate evil, due to its actions in Europe during the early part of the twentieth century. What few people seem to know is that fascism is an ideology, one that has a philosophy. Veith makes a good point that concentration camps and war were effects of fascism. These effects sprang from the ideas of fascism.
I was especially interested in how Veith showed that Communism and National Socialism are really two sides of the same coin. The difference is in their outlook. Communism has an international outlook, while National Socialism deals with a localized outlook (the nation). While there are flaws in this argument, Veith does a pretty good job of supporting himself with evidence.
Much of the book is spent discussing these philosophical ideas. There is much discussion of the ideas of Martin Heidegger and Frederich Nietzsche, and how they were the leading theorists of fascist thought. Many of today's intellectuals are vigorously trying to clean up Heidegger's writings to try and hide his obvious affinity for fascism. They just can't understand how he could embrace this mode of thought. Veith shows how his writings that are so loved by intellectuals today are outgrowths of fascist thought. He also shows that by adopting Heidegger's tenets, intellectuals are inadvertantly adopting fascist principles. Veith also spends time discussing how Christianity responded to fascism, especially in Nazi Germany where the church was viewed with great suspicion by the Nazis. Why? Because Christianity is an outgrowth of Judaism. Christianity started out as a Jewish sect, and all of its early theologians were Jews. Go look at your Bible. The only non-Jew in the New Testament is Luke (I've seen arguments for John as well).
A rare book that makes the reader look at things in a different way. I gave it four stars due to a few errors in the book. The first one was in the first paragraph, when Veith says that David Duke was a member of the American Nazi Party. Duke was never a member of the ANP. He was a member of the KKK. Also, using Nietzsche as a theorist of fascism might be a bit misleading. Nietzsche's sister edited his works after his descent into madness, and it from these versions that fascism borrowed some of their ideas. This seems to be the prevailing view today, anyway. I may concede the point to Veith, though, because this may be an attempt by leftist intellectuals to cleanse Nietzsche of what they perceive to be fascist thought. Also, I wish that Veith would have spent more time looking at how fascist thought has permeated our society today. There is only one chapter devoted to this, and it is the last one in the book.
I'd highly recommend this book. It'll make you question some of the ridiculous behavior that is going on in our country today.
Rating: 5
Summary: The foundations of Fascism revealed
Comment: Most people are only exposed to two historical aspects of Nazi Germany - WWII military campaigns and the Holocast. This book eloquently and thoroughly presents the most important aspect of the rise of Fascism in Germany, which is in fact the development of the philosophy and world-view of progressive, anti-Judeo-Christian European high-culture.
Hitler and the Nazis should not be dismissed as insane lunatics. The terror they unleashed was perfectly rational within their world-view which was based on Atheism (paganism), Socialism, and Darwinism. With Atheism, there is no absolute right and wrong & the ends justify the means. With Socialism, the greater good is more important than the rights of the individual. With Darwinism, man is just a highly advanced animal evolving by tooth and claw - survival of the fittest! What transpired in Europe was inevitable given the prevailing philosophies.
I think that Hitler and his leutenants absolutely believed they were creating a Utopia - within the framework of their worldview.
The Nazi leaders and their actions were put on trial at Nuremberg, but the philosophers, and especially the ideas that made the rise of Nazism possible, escaped serious scrutiny. The ideas are alive and well in modern progressive circles. History is ripe to repeat itself. (ie. Hatred of Christianity, expanding socialism, and promotion of evolution in public edu-indoctrination.)
Rating: 4
Summary: A little too good....
Comment: Veith's "Modern Fascism" is essentially a primer on the philosophy of fascism. He shows the ideas that converge to form the ideological basis for fascism are still alive today in academia, especially in postmodernism. In this respect it is brilliant. In fact, his discussion of the philosophy of fascism is so moving that it is hard to keep from felling some affinity towards this philosophy. Veith also does little to tell us why these ideas are bad, other than they were used by fascists to do bad things. He argues for a return to Judeao-Christianity, but ignores the fact that this philosophy has been put to bad uses as well. This is why I give him 4 stars only. As a primer on the philosophy of fascism, the book is genius, and very powerful. As a revolt against these ideas in modern thought, the book is subpar. I still recommend it to everyone in social science. If nothing else you can use it to point out the fascist tendencies in people's thought, and see the shock on their face. Good fun, and useful.
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