Steerpike, HG was British not even sure what that other book is about? Nor what liberal means to a Brit? Liberal Fascism would be what exactly, and that is an adjective, not a noun, what he means could be something like George Bush's AmeriKa a sort of liberal state where fascism is the guiding ideology. Not relevant.
JG point is that liberalism is fascism, I didn't miss that, you did. I read enough about the book to know it is hogwash - how many times do I have to say that. Newspeak is part of fascism, you're not reading the links we provide.
quotes from author
http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/11/latimes-jonah/
http://www.slate.com/id/2182871/
You want me to read a book by someone who can say this? "Yeah, I wanted to get into a lot of Eric Voegelin and all that in the book, but my publisher kept saying this is highbrow enough, we don't want to scare away readers. I'm very much in the Voegelin camp about how what unites what we call modern liberalism, progressivism, socialism, all of these isms, is the desire to immanentize the eschaton, the desire to sacralize life through politics, technology and the State's manipulation of technology. That was explicit in a lot of the Fascist intellectuals around Mussolini and it was explicit in a lot of the ideologues around Hitler as well. The Nazis I shouldn't say all since it was a more ideologically heterodox movement than you might think a lot of them wanted to replace the Bible with Mein Kampf, to change Christmas carols and call Hitler the Redeemer and so forth."
Puleeezz...pure unadulterated nonsense
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2008/01/interview-with-jonah-goldberg.html
JG point is that liberalism is fascism, I didn't miss that, you did. I read enough about the book to know it is hogwash - how many times do I have to say that. Newspeak is part of fascism, you're not reading the links we provide.
quotes from author
http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/11/latimes-jonah/
http://www.slate.com/id/2182871/
You want me to read a book by someone who can say this? "Yeah, I wanted to get into a lot of Eric Voegelin and all that in the book, but my publisher kept saying this is highbrow enough, we don't want to scare away readers. I'm very much in the Voegelin camp about how what unites what we call modern liberalism, progressivism, socialism, all of these isms, is the desire to immanentize the eschaton, the desire to sacralize life through politics, technology and the State's manipulation of technology. That was explicit in a lot of the Fascist intellectuals around Mussolini and it was explicit in a lot of the ideologues around Hitler as well. The Nazis I shouldn't say all since it was a more ideologically heterodox movement than you might think a lot of them wanted to replace the Bible with Mein Kampf, to change Christmas carols and call Hitler the Redeemer and so forth."
Puleeezz...pure unadulterated nonsense
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2008/01/interview-with-jonah-goldberg.html