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*distrust of experts
*distrust of experts
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Carlyle branch

Carlyle:

  • Scottish Calvinist
  • believed in the necessity of Heroes and hero worship
  • blamed the Jewish people for social problems without providing any real evidence
  • conducted experiments to prove Jewish inferiority and drew conclusions from assumed ideas
  • used hatred and bias to unite
  • believed that lesser people needed guidance from their superiors to stay human, if not they would degenerate to animals


Smith/Mill branch

Woolf's oppostion to Carlyle

What Woolfe says about Fascism:

  • relies on charismatic, emotional, passionate leader
  • requires that people give up on rational thought and blindly accept the word of the state
  • depends on people's primal urges
  • Jamaica Committee

Woolf's agreements with Smith/Mill

  • distrust of experts


Bibliography