What do you think of the victory of the National Front in France?
The problem with Madame Le Pen is that she is just as much a product of the French Revolution as the rest of them. They think they can mold the Muslims into good little secular Frenchmen. Madame Le Pen, who joined her family's National Front because of her admiration for General Bonaparte and his Jacobin army, will crush them with two of the Revolution's most destructive ideologies – nationalism and radical secularism – laïcité -- enforced by the powerful French state – she will ban the nun's habit along with the burqa. Such a sad situation – ever since Europe threw off Christianity they have no heritage, nothing to bind them but liberalism and nihlism. [c=#BF0000]http://bit.ly/1TJPMNBBut[/c] I would feel a little bit better with her niece, [b]Marion Maréchal-Le Pen[/b] , who is a devout Catholic trained by the Sisters [c=#BF0000]http://ind.pn/2pqRHCr[/c].....
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Those concerned about fascism I think you have reason to be concerned, although I hate to use the word "fascism". Fascism was an interwar ideology which only reached full fruition in Mussolini's Italy. Nazism was a lot different with its racialism and German paganism. Fascism today is just an all-purpose epithet tossed at people we disagree with.
However, fascism is also an ideology which sprung from the soil of the French Revolution. See [i]Leftism: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Marcuse[/i] [c=#BF0000]http://bit.ly/2abX9xP[/c] (free download in epub or pdf format)
@beckychandler: Fascism and Nazism were a reaction against enlightenment values. Its support came from the right and it was used by the establishment to crush the left.
Having Marx = Hitler is all the more ridiculous given what Hitler actually thought and did to the German left.
@Burnley123: May I suggest you read the cited book by [b]Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn[/b]. You also might want to try [i]"The Birth of Fascist Ideology"[/i] by [b]Zeev Sternhell[/b][c=#BF0000] http://amzn.to/2oB3dqJ[/c]
