A NEW FASCISM?
Trevor-Roper, H.R.
A N E W F A S C I S M ? H. R. Trevor-Roper I have often been asked, in the last twenty years, whether I could forecast an effective revival of Nazism in Germany. I have always answered, no;...
...and although a knowledge of the original fascism may help us to understand the new phenomenon, the precise form in which they have been resumed could not, I think, have been predicted...
...Well, unless our generation is profoundly more intelligent than its self-ordained shamans manifest it to be, life in the 'seventies will prove about as dreary as ever, though without the discomforts of open universities, sanctioned dissent and democracy...
...Jones...
...O * Since delivering this lecture, I have seen an issue of "Beaver" (5 December 1968), described as the "Newspaper of the London School of Economics Students' Union...
...A rock singer's balad may strike a resonant chord with his audience, but that does not make him an intelligent social critic...
...Mr...
...But the fusion of all these elements in a particular dynamic pattern was caused, in the past, by the particular unrepeatable experience of one generation...
...Robinson or Mr...
...James Hitchcock in the N e w York Times has uttered the ineffable...
...Hitchcock thinks that in doing our own things and all that, we are really being bilked by fashion designers and charlatans, exploited by the media, and rendered just a little foolish by Madison Avenue's bright boys...
...and I can add that the obscene and vindictive jovimalistic style of Julius Streicher's notorious anti-semitic periodical "Der Stunner" has also been resimied — though against new scapegoats...
...For this reason, the new fascism, when it occurs, will occur with radical differences...
...A N E W F A S C I S M ? H. R. Trevor-Roper I have often been asked, in the last twenty years, whether I could forecast an effective revival of Nazism in Germany...
...For as the youth rebellion continues to beget violence and thoughtlessness, it is assuring its own defeat, subjecting even its worthier values to cynicism and inaugurating an era 304 of cultural if not economic depression...
...Is it possible that in spite of our genius and purity we are all fated for eventual roles as Mrs...
...In the winter Indiana's Board of Trustees had raised tuition almost vertically (68%) and not a squeak...
...They might survive, as a kind of dead deposit, in aging minds...
...H. R. Trevor-Roper, in a Lecture at the London School of Economics, "The Past and the Present" (1969...
...Nevertheless the twenty-year-old social critics enjoyed a long and gaudily celebrated run last season, providing profitable employment for cub reporters, fly-by-night publishers, Hollywood mullahs, free-lance mountebanks, cops, etc., making it a nourishing year for all society's parasites...
...Indeed, with such differences, it has already occurred...
...In reforming our incredibly complicated society, we are all just a little over our heads...
...Elements of them would recur, here and there, in new situations: for some of the elements are permanent features of German history, and some are predictable responses to recurrent social pressures...
...Tyrrell is the editor-in-chief of The Alternative and political editor for The National Tattler...
...to wit, our generation, that tinglingly aware generation set on ushering in the Age of Aquarius, is — lo and behold — being duped...
...T k e S p r i n g of O u r T)iscontent: Its C^tiology R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...Teachers and oracles who fail to educate us to this stuffy fact are derelict in their calling and would benefit society more by joining the relief roles...
...because I have never believed that the old doctrines could revive in the old form...
...The arrogant cult of youth, the nihilism, the intolerance of dissent, the rejection of rational argument, the delibrate invocation of force to justify counter-force — all these have recently been resumed.* But they have been resumed in classes and circumstances very different from those of the 1920s and 1930s...
...Even I. U. contributed some blood in its now legendary Rites of Spring...
...N o less an apotheosizer of the youth rebellion than Richard Goodwin has recently asseverated that "history has a lot of brilliant twenty-year-old poets, but very few brilliant social critics in their twenties...
...The thought is positively chilling...
...could it be that we are not the chosen generation...
...and even if all the same circumstances should recur, in the same order (which is inconceivable), the emotional content would not be communicable, unchanged, to another generation: for the identical pattern of pressures and the same intellectual climate would not recur...
Vol. 3 • September 1969 • No. 2
