adorno

Brad DeLong jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu
Wed Apr 10 10:18:16 PDT 2002



>I wrote:
>The Origins of Totalitarianism, by the way, has as own of its central
>themes, emphasized over and over again, that what distinguishes Fascism and
>Stalinism from other forms of government is their completely non-rational
>and anti-utilitarian character.
>
>Chris Doss
>The Russia Journal
>--------------
>Whoops, I goofed. I should have said "Nazism and Stalinism." Actually,
>Arendt doesn't think Nazism is reducible to Fascism (or Stalinism to
>Leninism for that matter).
>
>Chris Doss
>The Russia Journal

The more I look at modern India, the more I think she's probably right...

Brad DeLong



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