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> His criticism of the Weimar Republic, of Marxism, pacifism and democracy intellectually aided the Nazis in their ideological advancement to the top of German

by lispm 6y ago

> His criticism of the Weimar Republic, of Marxism, pacifism and democracy intellectually aided the Nazis in their ideological advancement to the top of German politics Not just 'his criticism' -> he himself actively worked against the Weimarer Republik and he promoted a dictatorship (similar to the Fascism in Italy). Spengler was one of the most influential conservative thinkers supporting the destruction of the democracy and thus helped the rise of the Nazi movement. He also promoted anti-semitism.

clydethefrog 6y ago
Nazi ideology was to a large extent a vulgarisation of the work of the intellectuals associated with the Konservative Revolution . The notion of the Third Reich, also popularized by Spengler, was elaborated in Das Dritte Reich (1923) by Arthur Moeller van den Bruck. He used the term to propagate a conservative "socialist" ideal that could unite all classes under an authoritarian militarist regime. Together with Spengler's Preussentum and Sozialismus , it formed one of the building blocks of the doctrine of National Socialism . As Von Klemperer argues in his classical history of ideas of the Conservative Revolution, the Nazi movement was ideologically fueled by these conservative intelligentsia: >It mattered in these days that both movements were counter- revolutionary agents in the Republic and appealed to the worst instincts of the population. The vicious charges of the neo-conservatives against the political parties, the Weimar "system," or the Western powers, their mere use (with whatever mental reservations) of the new glittering vocabulary words like "myth," "totality," and "race" were but grist for the Nazi propaganda mill. That is why the initial alienation of the neo-conservative forces from the Republic was so fatal an event. It paved the way for the Rightist intelligentsia to serve the aims of the Nazi revolution. [1] [1] https://archive.org/details/germanysnewconse012338mbp https://archive.org/details/germanysnewconse012338mbp

by lispm 6y ago

clydethefrog 6y ago

Nazi ideology was to a large extent a vulgarisation of the work of the intellectuals associated with the Konservative Revolution . The notion of the Third Reich, also popularized by Spengler, was elaborated in Das Dritte Reich (1923) by Arthur Moeller van den Bruck. He used the term to propagate a conservative "socialist" ideal that could unite all classes under an authoritarian militarist regime. Together with Spengler's Preussentum and Sozialismus , it formed one of the building blocks of the doctrine of National Socialism . As Von Klemperer argues in his classical history of ideas of the Conservative Revolution, the Nazi movement was ideologically fueled by these conservative intelligentsia: >It mattered in these days that both movements were counter- revolutionary agents in the Republic and appealed to the worst instincts of the population. The vicious charges of the neo-conservatives against the political parties, the Weimar "system," or the Western powers, their mere use (with whatever mental reservations) of the new glittering vocabulary words like "myth," "totality," and "race" were but grist for the Nazi propaganda mill. That is why the initial alienation of the neo-conservative forces from the Republic was so fatal an event. It paved the way for the Rightist intelligentsia to serve the aims of the Nazi revolution. [1] [1] https://archive.org/details/germanysnewconse012338mbp https://archive.org/details/germanysnewconse012338mbp