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Entry: Jonah one More Time Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/jonah_one_more_time#16259 Post contents: I have not read Goldberg's book yet but note that what is its apparent main thesis is not new. Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn pointed out the leftist origins of Fascism and Nazism in his book "Leftism: from de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Marcuse," and more recenlty Wolfgang Schivelbusch has compared the politics of Franklin Roosevelt to those of Hitler and Mussolini in "Three New Deals." I'd have posted this writeback under Prof. Gottfried's initial review of the Goldberg book but that now appears to be a dying thread. I tend to agree with Kuehnelt-Leddihn and Schivelbusch that Fascism and Nazism at least originated as left-wing phenomena. Apparently Prof. Gottfried does not. I wonder if he would care to comment briefly on Kuehnelt-Leddihn and Schivelbusch, both of whom seem to me to be better scholars than Goldberg. Sent at: 2008 07 08