• About Kathy Shaidle
  • Kathy Shaidle: Donate
  • Kathy Shaidle: Privacy policy

5 Feet of Fury

Kathy Shaidle's blog. Est. 2000

Michael Ledeen responds to ‘Liberal Fascism’

January 27, 2010 By admin

Michael Ledeen writes:

He’s got it right when he suggests that fascism was a revolutionary movement.  But then he shies away from the consequences of that insight, because many of the people he wants to call “liberal fascists” are boring reformers, certainly not revolutionaries. And he shies away from the revolutionary nature of fascism for another reason, too:  because it shows that revolution is not just a leftist political phenomenon.  Jonah wants to have us believe that fascism was “of the left.”

While certain French revolutionary ideas played into the creation of the fascist movement, and while Mussolini started life as a socialist, and while various radical anarcho-syndicalists supported Mussolini from the very beginning (and some remained to the end), it is still a real stretch to say that fascism was fundamentally leftist.

More from my site

  • Exactly as I predicted: Kate Bush tickets sell out in fifteen minutesExactly as I predicted: Kate Bush tickets sell out in fifteen minutes
  • ‘The Stuff White People Like Rally in Washington, DC’‘The Stuff White People Like Rally in Washington, DC’
  • Aussie Catholics split on “freedom to annoy”Aussie Catholics split on “freedom to annoy”
  • Ezra Levant ‘fries’ James Moore for giving CBC ‘exclusive rights’ to Canada Day (?!); interviews intern in chicken suitEzra Levant ‘fries’ James Moore for giving CBC ‘exclusive rights’ to Canada Day (?!); interviews intern in chicken suit

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: :entry:fivefeet-2010-01-27-0001

« Next time I listen to my gut…
Ed Anger: ‘Tear down that statue!’ »
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • RSS
  • Twitter

Archives

Copyright © 2022 · Magazine Pro Theme On Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in