Fascist echoes w/ Adam Tooze
Politics Theory Other
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Introduction
Adam Toos is professor of history at Columbia University. He's the author of Wages of Destruction, The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy and Crashed How a Decade of Financial Crisis Changed the World. In today's interview we talked about Adam's view on whether the contemporary far-right can meaningfully be characterised as fascist in the sense of being closely comparable to Italian fascism and German Nazism of the interwar period and World War II. We discussed the key causal factors that allowed fascism to emerge in the early 20th centuryWhether describing the Bolsonaro's the Le Penz and the Orbanz of this world as fascist may be analytically wrong but tactically
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