Kenneth Minogue (1930–2013) Australian political theorist
Source: Politics: A Very Short Introduction, Chapter 1
Source: Marxism, Fascism & Totalitarianism: Chapters in the Intellectual History of Radicalism, (2008), p. 293
Kenneth Minogue (1930–2013) Australian political theorist
Source: Politics: A Very Short Introduction, Chapter 1
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) American protestant theologian
The Mike Wallace Interview (1958)
Context: The people that weren't traditionally religious, conventionally religious, had a religion of their own in my youth. These were liberals who believed in the idea of progress or they were Marxists. Both of these secular religions have broken down. The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion. But now when the historic religions give trivial answers to these very tragic questions of our day, when an evangelist says, for instance, we mustn't hope for a summit meeting, we must hope in Christ without spelling out what this could mean in our particular nuclear age. This is the irrelevant answer, when another Evangelist says if America doesn't stop being selfish, it will be doomed. This is also a childish answer because nations are selfish and the question about America isn't whether we will be selfish or unselfish, but will we be sufficiently imaginative to pass the Reciprocal Trade Acts.
Aimé Césaire (1913–2008) Martiniquais politician
Letter to Maurice Thorez resigning from the French Communist Party, October 24, 1956
Zeev Sternhell (1935) Israeli historian
Source: The Birth of Fascist Ideology: From Cultural Rebellion to Political Revolution, 1994, p. 5
Adam Schaff (1913–2006) Polish Marxist philosopher and theorist
Adam Schaff (1967) in: "Conversation with Ponzio," in Ponzio 2002; as cited in: Petrilli and Ponzio (2007)
“What Marxism, Leninism and Stalinism failed to accomplish, we shall be in a position to achieve.”
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
Source: Disputed, Hitler: Memoirs of a Confidant (1978), p. 149
Franz Kafka book The Zürau Aphorisms
18; (9 November 1917) a slight variant of this was published in Parables and Paradoxes (1946): If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without ascending it, the work would have been permitted.
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
A. James Gregor (1929–2019) American political scientist
Source: The Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century, (2000), p. 6
A. James Gregor (1929–2019) American political scientist
Source: The Ideology of Fascism: The Rationale of Totalitarianism, (1969), p. 359