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Article: Poisoned root.('Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning')(Book review)
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- February 11, 2008
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Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, by Jonah Goldberg (Doubleday, 496 pp., $27.95)
NO political term has been more overused and misused than "fascism." Since the 1930s it has been a word of indiscriminate abuse by the Left for anyone a scintilla to the right of them. And from the 1970s onward many right-wing commentators have used the term "fascist Left" to denote authoritarian tendencies on the socialist, liberal, or Democratic side of the political equation. I have used it myself when in a bad temper. Jonah Goldberg has now produced a comprehensive book that ...
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... ... first place, and backed Mussolini to the hilt. So nothing ... sharp and highly readable Liberal Fascism. Goldberg argues fascism ... the birth place of Benito Mussolini. He may have ended-up ... Hitler's puppy, but it was Mussolini who fathered fascism, years ...
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