Zizek on Haider

[Brad De Long]

>Brad DeLong wrote:
>
>>  >I don't know that "the world" tried to defuse fascism in the 20s and 30s.
>>
>>  Well, Chamberlain and Daladier declared war on it in September
>>  1939--late I agree, but better late than never. Don't they get
>>  brownie points for being willing to take on the beast, given that
>>  everybody else waited for the beast to come after them?
>>
>http://www.igc.apc.org/MonthlyReview/collusn.htm
>In Our Time
>THE CHAMBERLAIN-HITLER COLLUSION
>by Clement Leibovitz and Alvin Finkel
>When British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned from his Munich
>meetings with Adolf Hitler in September 1938, he proclaimed that he held in
>his hands a document guaranteeing "peace in our time." In the decades since,
>Chamberlain's folly has become the occasion for a commonplace historical
>lesson: that when the "good" innocently accept the assurances of the "evil,"
>the result is catastrophic.  Clement Leibovitz and Alvin Finkel challenge
>the familiar understanding of Munich as the product of a naive "appeasement"
>of Nazi appetites. They argue that it was the culmination of cynical
>collaboration between the Tory government and the Nazis in the 1930s. Based
>upon a careful reading of official and unofficial correspondence, conference
>notes, cabinet minutes, and diaries, In Our Time documents the steps taken
>under diplomatic cover by the West to strike a bargain with Hitler based
>upon shared anti-Soviet premises...

Silly.

If that was the policy of Britain and France, why didn't they just 
stand aside and let the drang nach osten begin in September 1939? 
There were lots of people arguing that Hitler should be allowed and 
encouraged to attack east. But in the last instance their advice was 
not followed.

Conversely, there were lots of people in the Soviet Union arguing 
that an alliance with Hitler would be a disaster. Their advice was 
not followed. And of them, I think that only Maxim Litvinov 
survived...

Silly.

Brad DeLong