By Suzy Hansen SALON March 22, 2003
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These new ideas were in a sense utopian, but they were also very bloody.Behind all the movements that made these proposals was a pathological fascination with mass death. Mass death was itself the principal fact of the First World War, in which 9 or 10 million people were killed on an industrial basis. And each of the new movements proceeded to reproduce that event in the name of their utopian opposition to the complexities and uncertainties of liberal civilization. The names of these movements varied and the traits that they displayed varied -- one was called Bolshevism, and another was called fascism, another was called Nazism
Paul Berman, political and cultural critic ,..
CB:... and a racist ignoramus with poor reasoning skills. What a stupid thesis this is. He fails to notice that good ole liberal civilization was the source of industrial strength mass murder in WWI, by his own statement, and a whole bunch of wars in Europe before that. Then he ignores that liberal civilization was responsible for the genocidal usurpation of the Western Hemisphere, the African slave trade and rape of Africa, Asia , Australia and Oceania, not to mention the wars on Korea, Viet Nam, etc. He seems to have amnesia about history prior to the end of WWI. His book should be titled _History Began in 1919_, a book end to go with _The End of History_
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