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==Carlyle branch== | ==Carlyle/Galton branch== | ||
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* used hatred and bias to unite | * 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 | * believed that lesser people needed guidance from their superiors to stay human, if not they would degenerate to animals | ||
==Smith/Mill branch== | ==Smith/Mill branch== | ||
Revision as of 06:28, 1 December 2008
Carlyle/Galton 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
