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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

People are reading The Populist Delusion.

[–]MarkimusNational Socialist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Have you read it? How does he try to explain away nationalist revolutionary organisations? Does he just ignore them or pretend they were actually emerging elites doing the Jouvenalian thing?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm not that far into it. So far the author takes a generally favorable attitude toward the historical fascist movements and their "iron discipline." There is a chapter on Jouvenel.

[–]MarkimusNational Socialist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Interesting, I'll read it at some point I guess. The impression I have from seeing people talk about it was that it's just another 'all revolutions are elites, grassroots stuff isn't real' which has been disproven by fascist movements.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sounds like you already got the jist of it. I just figured you had read it based on that comment. Cause that's basically a tl;dr.