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To: glenn_a who wrote (42185)11/29/2003 7:39:51 PM
From: JF Quinnelly  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74559
 
You might also want to take a look at Erich Voegelin, a contemporary of Strauss.



To: glenn_a who wrote (42185)11/30/2003 2:18:29 AM
From: Raymond Duray  Respond to of 74559
 
it would seem, a modern philosophical framework on which to base, well, fascism.

Well, yup.

Here's a passionate essay by Robert Kennedy, Jr. that makes the same point. That America has indeed been hijacked by some jack-booted fascist thugs. His language is a trace more conciliatory, but not much:

Message 19546197

Message 19546247

Message 19546779

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Re: Never did buy the whole Nazism as primarily a German thing.

That was mythology that was taught to us as children when I was in school in the 50' to '70s. Somehow the schools never got around to telling us that Henry Ford, Senator Prescott Bush, Charles Lindbergh, King Edward VII,http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9612/11/edward.abdication/
much of British aristocracy and the preponderance of German immigrants in the U.S. were fans of Nazism and Hitler.

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Re: A fascinating read ... plan to look into this Strauss character a little more closely.

Here's the dossier of useful articles I've collected so far:

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opendemocracy.net

alternet.org

washingtonmonthly.com

edgewise.pycs.net
[Note: scroll down to second item.]

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Re: Also, the John Stauber video on propaganda is very good also:

I subscribe to PRWatch's Weekly Spin, which Stauber puts out on Wednesdays. It's very useful.

prwatch.org

prwatch.org