Quack, Quack

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Introduction

Quack, Quack! was written by Leonard Woolf in 1935 and expresses his views on fascism and the current state of governments in Europe. http://www.mantex.co.uk/graphics/hogarth_6.jpg http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/27/41527-004-5DD4522D.jpg

Carlyle - Fascism

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

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

Smith/Mill branch

  • analytical egalitarianism
  • language is the indicator of civilization
  • no difference between "street porter and philosopher"
  • human difference is illustrated through human bestiality
  • denies human bestiality, all have same potential

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 intellectuals

References