Nazis In Colour
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>I mean the whole idea of nationalism wasn't necessarily only
>going on at the time in Germany. It was everywhere. The same
>way "free market capitalism" was the idea of the day the last
>decade, "nationalism" was the style (dare I say "zeitgeist"?) in the
>1930's everywhere, especially as a response to the economic
>chaos of the Great Depression.Not necessary only to that. Bolshevism/communism, which happened before the great depression was also recognized as a nationalistic reaction.
The whole economic history of the 20th century was a confrontation of two systems -- liberal capitalism and marxism -- for the right to be the main successor of Enlightenment. The two camps competed in how modern and true their position was to the "civilized" path. Marxists saw their theory as the most advanced, and therefore they were convinced that the future of socialism was to overcome "archaic capitalism".
On the contrary, the victory of liberal capitalism in the 90s proved the opposite, that socialism is a more archaic form of management, and that rational liberalism was the most progressive model, which laughs at the traditional society and its values, and labels them as primitive and uncivilized, repressing old beliefs and customs of premodern times and keeping them in a cultural ghetto. Liberal capitalism won and reaffirmed its historic right to be the sole possessor of the legacy of Modernism.
But human beings turned out not to be as rational, but more archaic than liberalism assumed. Esp. in Russian case, where the simple russian man living in the rural areas during that time, didn't really changed at all since the rule of Rurik one thousand year ago. They didn't went through the Enlightenment period in the same way as the western europe did and were relatively late in establishing their first university etc.
And so, bolshevism, which operates with rationalistic terms only superficially, was a revolutionary (!) conservative reaction to the separation and "reincarnation" of people, which began with the establishment of capitalism in czarist Russia. People recognized in marxism (partly erroneously) their communal structure of the previous times, which was typical for them, some sort of religious proto-communism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sob…On one important point communism actually fulfilled its promise, in the way that it preserved the archaic national content, expect that it created a completely secularized society
http://margaux.grandvinum.se/Seb…
This is why in Russia the nation and the state are the second religion -- similarly to the holism of the ancient systems, where any leader that they elect , even democratically, they turn into an object of worshipping. A very interesting thing to study, because unlike german national socialism which died in WW2, ancient holism i Russia survived into the modern times.In the same way, Nazism (national socialism), which happened a little later was a reaction to the cruel treatment of traditions by liberal rationalism. There is one difference though, nazism aimed to destroy liberal capitalism (and their war was mainly anti-atlantic) together with communism (!), which they both saw as symptoms of degradation of the nation/race/state. The important thing is that communists at that time were wrong in their assessment of nazism, in the way that they considered it to be a continuation of capitalism in state of crisis, but it wasn't, although of course the crisis of capitalism in the 1930s with no doubt influenced the emergence of fascism. Interesting to note that before Hitler came to power, communists had almost 50% popularity in Germany.
Btw, by the theory of international political thought of Carl Schmitt, so far there has been three epochal changes in the international system. The first -- medieval period with a tendency to create empires. The second was the new era, and the third epochal change of hte twentieth century, which is bipolar and represents the confrontation of East and West, ended in 1991. Similarly, all three modern political ideologies which dominated the 20th century (capitalism, communism and later fascism) will die, and the last to go is liberal capitalism, which gave birth to the other two
It will die in the winds and storm of today's crisis, as predicted by many philosophers 100 years ago- "the cruel treatment of traditions by liberal rationalism" hahahaha
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- "the cruel treatment of traditions by liberal rationalism" hahahaha