Fascism Paul E. Gottfried
Fascism Paul E. Gottfried What does it mean to label someone a fascist? But as intellectual historian Paul E. Today, it is equated with denouncing him or her as a Nazi. Gottfried examines the…
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Fascism Paul E. Gottfried
What does it mean to label someone a fascist? But as intellectual historian Paul E. Today, it is equated with denouncing him or her as a Nazi.
Gottfried examines the semantic twists and turns the term has endured since the 1930s and traces the word's polemical function within the context of present ideological struggles. Gottfried writes in this provocative yet even-handed study, the term's meaning has evolved over the years. Like "conservatism," "liberalism," and other words whose meanings have changed with time, "fascism" has been used arbitrarily over the years and now stands for a host of iniquities that progressives, multiculturalists, and libertarians oppose, even if they offer no single, coherent account of the historic evil they condemn.Certain factors have contributed to the term's imprecise usage, Gottfried writes, including the equation of all fascisms with Nazism and