3. - INFLUENTIAL GERMAN-AMERICAN POLITICAL
THEORIST, LIVED THROUGH EARLY NAZI REGIME,
FLED TO FRANCE, THEN TO AMERICA
- Colonial vs. Continental expansionism:
two contexts of racism and imperialism
- PAN-SLAVISM AND PAN-GERMANISM
- SUBORDINATION OF ALL INTERESTS
TO THE WILL OF THE STATE
- TOTALITARIANISM VS AUTOCRACY:
COMPLETE CONTROL OF EVERYDAY LIFE
DESIRE FOR WORLD DOMINATION
VS.
POLITICAL CONTROL AND SUPPRESSION
I.E. ITALY ???
„DIE ELEMENTE UND URSPRÜNGE
TOTALER HERRSCHAFT“
11. “CLASS” AND
“CLASSLESSNESS”
Corporatism – Corporate subordination
and/or marriage to concerns of state
Private
property
retained,
unless it is
challenge to
State authority
“Petit-
Bourgeois”
Or
“Kleinburger”
40. THE MUSIC
Nazi German
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9zfHpiS4Ug
(les Preludes – deutsche wochenschau)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy0fhvTLNlY&f
eature=related
(when the soldiers march)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip4FtVxrkFg
(pariser einzugsmarsch – paris 1940)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Bd14eUhrU&f
eature=related
(beethoven’s 9th on hitler’s birthday)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUsePoATbrU&
feature=related
(lili marlene – ww2 version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q
Yim85Z5Njk
(if war comes tomorrow)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y
y8mxh0P63M&feature=related
(the sacred war)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y
68NhY6b4hk
(blue handkerchief)
41. Right Wing rhetoric - the obama poster
increases In state power
broadest “socialism”:
welfare in general, language of class struggle,
any state imposition on market, etc.
may re-create this phenomenon
Left wing rhetoric – the end of history?
specter of “inverted totalitarianism”:
politics, arts, life dominated by
the market and corporation
a “Lazy” notion: too broad, non-specific,
ignores important differences
TOTALITARIANISM: MODERN INTERPRETATIONS