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I find it troubling that this article omits the fact that Coughlin's newspaper was a weekly named "Social Justice", and that Coughlin was the leader and founder
by maxharris 6y ago
I find it troubling that this article omits the fact that Coughlin's newspaper was a weekly named "Social Justice", and that Coughlin was the leader and founder of the National Union for Social Justice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Justice_(periodical) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Justice_(periodical)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Union_for_Social_Justice_(organization) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Union_for_Social_Just...
The overlap in names between Coughlin's authoritarian-right movement and today's increasingly authoritarian-left version may at first seem like a mere coincidence, but my view is that this is reflective of a deep epistemological commonality between these views. Despite the surface-level political differences, which amounts to disagreement on who to scapegoat and which group should wield increasingly authoritarian power over others, they are not very different.
From where does this commonality stem? German philosophers that created the intellectual conditions within German society that made both the Weimar Republic and its collapse into Hitler's Nazi Germany inevitable: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/530716/the-cause-of-hitlers-germany-by-leonard-peikoff/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/530716/the-cause-of...