Answer me this: Left-Wing Fascism-Jürgen Habermas, a sociologist and philosopher influenced by the neo-Marxist Frankfurt School used the term in the 1960s to distance the Frankfurt School from the violence and authoritarianism of left-wing. Habermas, whose work emphasizes the importance of rational discourse, democratic institutions and opposition to violence, has made important contributions to conflict theory and is often associated with the radical left. Irving Louis Horowitz describes the enemies of the working class as opportunists and petty-bourgeois revolutionaries, which he links to anarchism. Horowitz argues that there was a similar political strain in the United States in the 1980s, which he characterizes as "left-wing fascism". Horowitz argues that it is dangerous to assume clear distinctions between left, centre and right...Left-wing fascism...Bernard-Henri Lévy, a philosopher and journalist, calls this political hybrid neo-progressivism, new barbarism or red fascism. Lévy argues that it is anti-liberal, anti-American, anti-empire, anti-Semitic and pro-Islamofascist.
Posted on: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 06:24:11 +0000
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