Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality

Share this post

Lecture Rehearsals: 3.3. Fascism & Naziism

braddelong.substack.com

Discover more from Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality

Economic history, economics, political economy, finance, & forecasting. Here to try to make you (and me) smarter in a world with many increasingly deep & complicated troubles...
Over 20,000 subscribers
Continue reading
Sign in

Lecture Rehearsals: 3.3. Fascism & Naziism

For 2021-10-07

Brad DeLong
Oct 15, 2021
1
Share this post

Lecture Rehearsals: 3.3. Fascism & Naziism

braddelong.substack.com
Share

3.3. Fascism & Naziism

(64:23)


3.3.1. Lecture—Fascism

When nationalism proved more powerful than class solidarity at the start of WWI, young Italian socialist switched to put himself at the head of the larger parade. He then felt his way forward into the half-serious half-confidence game doctrines of fascism (17:36):

Slides: <https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/lecture-3.3.1-fascism.pptx>

Share


3.3.2. Lecture—Naziism
Adolf Hitler was a fascist. Also a genocidal racist-nationalist. He also found himself at the head of a nation with an army trained to attack in brutal and surprising ways that had proved dangerously effective since the late 1600s (25:32):

Slides: <https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/lecture-3.3.2-naziism.pptx>

Share Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality


3.3.3. Lecture—How Many Totalitarian Movements?
How many totalizing antimarket anti-representative government movements were there in the world in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s? Were there one two or three? Or was really existing Socialism different enough from fascism and Naziism to be a separate species on its own? And was Naziiism a form of fascism, or a genocidal corruption of a doctrine that hoped for solidarity in a way that semi-classical semi-liberalism had never provided? I will not say that I have answers. I will say that I have views, largely springing from my readings of Hobsbawm and Keynes (21:15):

Slides: <https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/lecture-3.3.3-totalitarian.pptx>


Readings:

  • DeLong, Slouching Towards Utopia ch 9 <https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/readings/2021-07-31-slouching-%23tocopyedit.pdf>

  • Eichengreen: The Populist Temptation, selections 2 <https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/readings/book-eichengreen-populist-selections-2.pdf (Links to an external site.)>

Leave a comment


1
Share this post

Lecture Rehearsals: 3.3. Fascism & Naziism

braddelong.substack.com
Share
Previous
Next
Comments
Top
New
Community

No posts

Ready for more?

© 2023 Brad DeLong
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start WritingGet the app
Substack is the home for great writing