Glossary
Extreme nationalism after World War I, centered on myth, nation, struggle, and subordination to national greatness.
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Fascism
Extreme nationalism after World War I, centered on myth, nation, struggle, and subordination to national greatness.
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definition
After World War I, extreme nationalism rises as fascism, which Jiang defines as an extreme version of nationalism.
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Fascism treats the nation as an eternal struggle of the fittest where unity, belief, and war can make even a weak nation invincible.
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For fascists, war is good because it unites people in a final struggle for survival and remolds them into extreme nationalists.
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Jiang reads Weber as predicting either new prophets, rebirth of old ideas, or mechanized petrification; he identifies fascism and communism as rebellions against capitalism.
diagnosis
Jiang treats fascism and communism as twentieth-century new-prophet responses to capitalism that were defeated by World War II and the Cold War.
model
Jiang says war, religion, and civilization historically gave people structure, meaning, and purpose, but each also generated suffering, superstition, racism, imperialism, or fascism.
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"...have the rise of extreme nationalism which is what we call fascism. Okay? Fascism is just the extreme version of nationalism. This is Mussolini..."
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"...to translate into a total reality we subordinate everything else. Okay? Fascism is the belief that the nation, the people is in an eternal..."
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"That's not what's important. What's important is your faith, right? But the faith decreed that the cloak should become an iron cage, okay? Money..."
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"...Catholic religion, okay? And these new ideas will happen. They're called fascism and communism, all right? So capitalism will give rise to the Nazis..."
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"The first possible response is nothingness. In which case, guess what? We become a zombie society. A zombie society just means that we just..."
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"The second is called fascism, okay, or the Nazis. All right, so the 12th century was really about defeating these two critics of capitalism,..."
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"Okay? And traditionally. Or historically. There have been three answers. The first is war. The second is religion. And the third is civilization. Okay?..."
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"Fascism. Okay? Okay? War. And conquest. Are the ultimate good. So. Historically. War. Religion. And civilization. Have given. People. Structure. Meaning. And purpose. But..."
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"...is set to Europe. You guys fought wars. You guys had fascism because you are a closed society. Okay? Closed society means you don't..."
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"...first question is, how do the Americans feel about communism and fascism? Second question is, the Americans and the British were very close allies...."
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"...II was about the nation state, the rise of nationalism and fascism. The Pax Americana is about the international rules -based order. Okay? The..."
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"That's what fascism is, the unit of will. We as a people, if we come together, we will be this invincible, inevitable historical force..."
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