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"Principles of Asymmetrical Warfare: How to Beat Islamo-fascists at
Their Own Game" provides principles, strategies, tactics, and
methods available to the Administration in winning and ending the
wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the War on Terrorism. Some
strategies and tactics appear extreme to a civilized country as the
United States. However, we should know about and understand these
strategies and tactics in case we must use them because the Isfasts
are about to annihilate, conquer, or place us in bondage.
I have quoted ideas from Sun Tzu, Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.,
and Dr. Michael Savage, a man of great intellect. Our
Administration has made a major mistake by not learning from great
warriors like Sun Tzu and Gen. Patton. Our Administration makes an
even larger mistake by ignoring Michael Savage's thoughts, ideas,
and suggestions.
Many ideas are common sense, which seems to be lacking in our
politicians, Administration, and military generals. Apparently,
they do not know how to fight and win an asymmetrical war.
"Principles of Asymmetrical Warfare" provides fresh ideas on
fighting the Isfasts and winning. Therefore, if you desire to know
how to beat the Isfasts at their own game, read "Principles of
Asymmetrical Warfare."
View the Table of Contents.
Read the Preface.
"With his characteristic verve, Professor Gerald Horne has
written an excellent book about the fascinating and mysterious
Lawrence Dennis. This pairing of the leftist black intellectual
Horne and the racially-closeted fascist Dennis makes for an
exciting exploration of obscure terrain that warrants more notice.
Professor Horne has performed an important service by revealing so
vividly Dennis's strange but instructive career."
--Randall Kennedy, Harvard Law School
aShedding light on both passing and the formation of a proposed
afascism with a human face, a this book will prove useful for
scholars of race and class in the US as well as scholars of fascist
doctrine and theory.a--"Choice"
"I am almost certainly not alone in expressing surprise that
Lawrence Dennis, the principal American intellectual fascist, was
an African American who 'passed' for white. In the process of
explaining Dennis's rise and how his secret minority status shaped
his political extremism, Gerald Horne has researched and written a
compelling and significant history of American fascism."
--Kenneth Janken, author of "White: The Biography of Walter White,
Mr. NAACP"
What does it mean that Lawrence Dennis--arguably the "brains"
behind U.S. fascism--was born black but spent his entire adult life
passing for white? Born in Atlanta in 1893, Dennis began life as a
highly touted African American child preacher, touring nationally
and arousing audiences with his dark-skinned mother as his escort.
However, at some point between leaving prep school and entering
Harvard University, he chose to abandon his family and his former
life as an African American in orderto pass for white. Dennis went
on to work for the State Department and on Wall Street, and
ultimately became the public face of U.S. fascism, meeting with
Mussolini and other fascist leaders in Europe. He underwent trial
for sedition during World War II, almost landing in prison, and
ultimately became a Cold War critic before dying in obscurity in
1977.
Based on extensive archival research, The Color of Fascism
blends biography, social history, and critical race theory to
illuminate the fascinating life of this complex and enigmatic man.
Gerald Horne links passing and fascism, the two main poles of
Dennis's life, suggesting that Dennis's anger with the U.S. as a
result of his upbringing in Jim Crow Georgia led him to alliances
with the antagonists of the U.S. and that his personal isolation
which resulted in his decision to pass dovetailed with his ultimate
isolationism.
Dennis's life is a lasting testament to the resilience of
right-wing thought in the U.S. The first full-scale biographical
portrait of this intriguing figure, The Color of Fascism also links
the strange career of a prominent American who chose to pass.
The War for Legitimacy in Politics and Culture 1936-1946 presents
the first investigation of how the phenomenon of political
legitimacy operated within Europe's political cultures during the
period of the Second World War. Amidst the upheavals of that
turbulent period in Europe's twentieth-century history, a wide
variety of contenders for power emerged, each of which claimed to
possess the right to rule.Exploring political discourse, state
propaganda, and high and low culture, the book argues that
legitimacy lay not with rulers, and still less in the barrel of a
gun, but in the values behind differing approaches to "good"
government. An important contribution to the study of the political
culture of wartime Europe, this volume will be essential reading
for both political scientists and twentieth-century historians.
Covering Western and Eastern Europe, this book looks at the
Holocaust on the local level. It compares and contrasts the
behaviour and attitude of neighbours in the face of the Holocaust.
Topics covered include deportation programmes, relations between
Jews and Gentiles, violence against Jews, perceptions of Jewish
persecution, and reports of the Holocaust in the Jewish and
non-Jewish press.
Developing a knowledge of the Spanish-Italian connection between
right-wing extremist groups is crucial to any detailed
understanding of the history of fascism. Transnational Fascism in
the Twentieth Century allows us to consider the global fascist
network that built up over the course of the 20th century by
exploring one of the significant links that existed within that
network. It distinguishes and analyses the relationship between the
fascists of Spain and Italy at three interrelated levels - that of
the individual, political organisations and the state - whilst
examining the world relations and contacts of both fascist
factions, from Buenos Aires to Washington and Berlin to Montevideo,
in what is a genuinely transnational history of the fascist
movement. Incorporating research carried out in archives around the
world, this book delivers key insights to further the historical
study of right-wing political violence in modern Europe.
This book explores the use of antisemitism by Britain's interwar
fascists and the ways in which the country's Jews reacted to this,
examining the two alongside one another for the first time and
locating both within the broader context of contemporary events in
Europe. Daniel Tilles challenges existing conceptions of the
antisemitism of Britain's foremost fascist organisation, the
British Union of Fascists. He demonstrates that it was a far more
central aspect of the party's thought than has previously been
assumed. This, in turn, will be shown to be characteristic of the
wider relationship between interwar European fascism and
antisemitism, a thus far relatively neglected issue in the
burgeoning field of fascist studies. Tilles also argues that the
BUF's leader, Sir Oswald Mosley, far from being a reluctant convert
to the anti-Jewish cause, or simply a cynical exploiter of it, as
much of the existing scholarship suggests, was aware of the role
antisemitism would play in his fascist doctrine from the start and
remained in control of its subsequent development. These findings
are used to support the notion that, contrary to prevailing
perceptions, Jewish opposition to the BUF played no part in
provoking the fascists' adoption of antisemitism. Britain's Jews
did, nevertheless, play a significant role in shaping British
fascism's path of development, and the wide-ranging and effective
anti-fascist activity they pursued represents an important
alternative narrative to the dominant image of Jews as mere victims
of fascism.
Fascism was one of the twentieth century's principal political
forces, and one of the most violent and problematic. Brutal,
repressive and in some cases totalitarian, the fascist and
authoritarian regimes of the early twentieth century, in Europe and
beyond, sought to create revolutionary new orders that crushed
their opponents. A central component of such regimes' exertion of
control was criminal law, a focal point and key instrument of State
punitive and repressive power. This collection brings together a
range of original essays by international experts in the field to
explore questions of criminal law under Italian Fascism and other
similar regimes, including Franco's Spain, Vargas's Brazil and
interwar Romania and Japan. Addressing issues of substantive
criminal law, criminology and ideology, the form and function of
criminal justice institutions, and the role and perception of
criminal law in processes of transition, the collection casts new
light on fascism's criminal legal history and related questions of
theoretical interpretation and historiography. At the heart of the
collection is the problematic issue of continuity and similarity
among fascist systems and preceding, contemporaneous and subsequent
legal orders, an issue that goes to the heart of fascist regimes'
historical identity and the complex relationship between them and
the legal orders constructed in their aftermath. The collection
thus makes an innovative contribution both to the comparative
understanding of fascism, and to critical engagement with the
foundations and modalities of criminal law across systems.
Peron and Peronism, is unique, especially among English language
books, insofar as it is not so much a biography of the remarkable
Argentine president, but an explanation of Peronism in theory and
practice. While the lives of Juan, and especially Eva, Peron are
relatively easy to access, seldom is it that a biography of the
Perons, or even a scholarly history of Argentina, details the
doctrine of Justicialism. In Peron and Peronism, Bolton draws on
primary documents and speeches to define the Peronist doctrine that
has moved the hearts and minds of the majority of Argentines for
generations. Peron is shown to have been not only a great leader,
who built the foundations of modern Argentina, but a philosopher
who drew upon various philosophical schools, from Classical Greece
onwards in synthesising a 'third position' that transcends
capitalism and communism, Right and Left, and exposes
'demoliberalism' as a fraud. Here we also see a man of vision, an
exponent of geopolitical blocs to counter globalist hegemony, whose
ideals remain profoundly relevant in the age of globalisation."
This includes a brilliant line-up of international contributors
that examine the implications of the portrayals of Nazis in
low-brow culture and that culture's re-emergence today.
"Nazisploitation!" examines past intersections of National
Socialism and popular cinema and the recent reemergence of this
imagery in contemporary visual culture. In the late 1960s and early
1970s, films such as "Love Camp 7" and "Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS"
introduced and reinforced the image of Nazis as master paradigms of
evil in what film theorists deem the "sleaze" film. More recently,
Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds", as well as video games such as
"Call of Duty: World at War", have reinvented this iconography for
new audiences. In these works, the violent Nazi becomes the
hyperbolic caricature of the "monstrous feminine" or the masculine
sadist. Power-hungry scientists seek to clone the Fuhrer, and Nazi
zombies rise from the grave. The history, aesthetic strategies, and
political implications of such translations of National Socialism
into the realm of commercial, low brow, and "sleaze" visual culture
are the focus of this book. The contributors examine when and why
the Nazisploitation genre emerged as it did, how it establishes and
violates taboos, and why this iconography resonates with
contemporary audiences.
Shaping the minds of the future generation was pivotal to the Nazi
regime in order to ensure the continuing success of the Third
Reich. Through the curriculum, the elite schools and youth groups,
the Third Reich waged a war for the minds of the young. Hitler
understood the importance of education in creating self-identity,
inculcating national pride, promoting 'racial purity' and building
loyalty. Education in Nazi Germany examines how Nazism took shape
in the classroom via school textbook policy, physical education and
lessons on Nationalist Socialist heroes and anti-Semitism. Offering
a compelling new analysis of Nazi educational policy, this book
brings to the forefront an often-overlooked aspect of the Third
Reich.
For over five decades, North Korea has outlived many forecasts of
collapse despite defects in its system. Origins of North Korea's
Juche: Colonialism, War, and Development, edited by Jae-Jung Suh,
argues that it has survived because of Juche, a unique political
institution built on the simple notion of self-determination, whose
meanings and limits have been shaped by Koreans' experiences with
colonialism, war, and development amidst surrounding superpowers
that have complicated their aspirations and plans. The authors in
this volume collectively provide an historical institutionalist
account of North Korean politics organized around the concept of
Juche-commonly translated as self-reliance, but best understood as
subjecthood or being a master of one's own fate-focusing on its
role as a response to North Korea's experiences with colonialism,
the Korean War, and economic development. The contributors further
discuss how Juche circumscribes the evolutionary path that North
Koreans can take as they negotiate contemporary challenges. North
Korea, as it is now, is best understood in terms of Juche which
embodies the cumulative effect of its historical experiences and
responses, and its future potential and trajectory, as enabled and
constrained by its conception of Juche. This collection provides
fascinating insights into the politics and history of one of the
world's most mysterious nations.
Professor Hans Mommsen, one of the world's leading experts on the
history of the Third Reich, has gathered together a group of
historians who are engaged in pioneering research into national
socialism. This book covers such topics as the Viennese background
to Hitler's career; the development of fascist tendencies amongst
the German population during the Weimar period; the nature of
popular support for national socialism; the myth of the Nazi
economic boom and the ideological concepts and political
developments which culminated in the mass murder of European Jews.
It makes accessible to a wider public controversial arguments which
have resulted from recent reassessments of Hitler's movement and
his Nazi regime.
Adolf Hitler attained power in 1933 as the result of a complex set
of factors, some of which were complementary and some of which were
mutually exclusive. This book describes and analyzes the reasons
Hitler became chancellor of Germany, which included the harsh
Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I; the Germans' lack of
faith in democracy and the reasons behind it; the corruption and
political and economic mismanagement which characterized the Weimar
Republic; the hyperinflation of the early 1920s, when the cost of a
dollar exploded to 4.2 trillion marks and the German currency lost
99.3% of its value; the Great Depression, during which nearly a
quarter of the German work force was unemployed; the political and
economic instability of the times, in which the Nazis thrived; and
the evil genius of Hitler, the master politician. This book
transports the reader back to the Germany of the 1920s and 1930s,
so he or she can experience what it was like to be there as Hitler
and his cronies grasped for power and the foundations of the Weimar
Republic crumbled. How did an Austrian tramp named Adolf Hitler
become chancellor of Germany, in a position to launch the most
infamous reign of terror experienced in the 20th century? Why
Hitler? explains the Nazi rise to power in captivating prose and
uncompromising detail. Why Hitler^ focuses on the issue of why and
how Hitler and his party attained power in Germany, a question
asked by all reflective Americans. Author Samuel Mitcham presents
new information, dispensing with the hackneyed theory—presented
by Hitler in Mein Kampf and repeated by historians as illustrious
as William Shirer and Alan Bullock—that the heroic young Fuehrer
struggled to survive against poverty and incredible odds, working
as a day laborer and living in a flop house, hunger his constant
companion. In fact, Hitler's income from his father's pension was
higher than that of a junior postal employee, a teacher with less
than five years' service, or a court lawyer with one year's salary.
Flying and the pilot were significant metaphors of fascism's
mythical modernity. Fernando Esposito traces the changing meanings
of these highly charged symbols from the air show in Brescia, to
the sky above the trenches of the First World War to the violent
ideological clashes of the interwar period.
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