https://clarespark.com/2010/02/18/nazi-sykewar-american-style-part-four/
This series reveals the astounding opinons derived from German and Nazi war propaganda that were adopted by leaders of the progressive movement on the threshold of America’s entrance into World War Two. It is deeply shocking to those who see an unbridgeable chasm between Roosevelt and Hitler. It also underlines the theme of this website: the growing literacy and numeracy of ordinary people since the invention of the printing press terrified aristocrats in Europe, and their opinions were easily transmitted to American progressives whose social democratic aspirations created a new aristocracy in America, similar to the idea of the Platonic Guardians. For a related blog with more evidence see https://clarespark.com/2009/12/13/klara-hitlers-son-and-jewish-blood/. On the power of Jeffersonian agrarianism among progressives, see https://clarespark.com/2011/08/14/review-in-the-garden-of-beasts-by-erik-larson/.
https://clarespark.com/2010/02/17/nazi-sykewar-american-style-part-three/
https://clarespark.com/2010/02/16/nazi-sykewar-american-style-part-two/.
https://clarespark.com/2010/02/14/nazi-sykewar-american-style-part-one/. (Don’t miss this one: it expresses the progressive fear of the rationality of ordinary people. who may see through propaganda.)
The Clare Spark Blog 
Right here is the right website for everyone who wants to understand this topic.
You understand so much its almost tough to argue with you (not that I personally will need
to…HaHa). You definitely put a fresh spin on a subject which
has been written about for ages. Wonderful stuff, just wonderful!
Comment by accessible — March 1, 2014 @ 5:50 am |
[…] https://clarespark.com/2010/04/18/links-to-nazi-sykewar-american-style/ […]
Pingback by McCarthyism, then and now | YDS: The Clare Spark Blog — December 4, 2013 @ 8:40 pm |
[…] As I have suggested on this website, intact families are no panacea, but rather are the site of lifelong ambivalence or worse, owing to sibling rivalry, prolonged attachment to the parent of the opposite sex, and other factors identified by the now stigmatized Freud and his followers. Indeed, social psychologists attached to the New Deal (such as Henry A. Murray) fretted about mother-son attachments as leading to an overactive social conscience that could go all the way to communism. (See https://clarespark.com/2009/11/07/he-loves-his-mommy-too-much/, and https://clarespark.com/2010/02/16/nazi-sykewar-american-style-part-two/, plus others in this series: https://clarespark.com/2010/04/18/links-to-nazi-sykewar-american-style/.) […]
Pingback by O’Reilly’s riff on ‘race’ relations | YDS: The Clare Spark Blog — July 27, 2013 @ 9:12 pm |
[…] But what I find particularly ironic is that David Mikics, the author of the Tablet piece is a postmodernist exponent of Jacques Derrida (the hero whose dubious alliances have been questioned by other postmodernists), while the author of the forthcoming book Ben Urwand, is a Harvard Junior Fellow. For it was Harvard that was the site of the most ardent proposals that Nazi and German methods of managing the masses be taken up by progressives and populists in America. See for example this series of essays posted on my website: https://clarespark.com/2011/03/27/progressive-mind-managers-ca-1941-42/, https://clarespark.com/2009/12/13/klara-hitlers-son-and-jewish-blood/, and https://clarespark.com/2010/04/18/links-to-nazi-sykewar-american-style/. […]
Pingback by Hollywood’s “pact” with Hitler? | YDS: The Clare Spark Blog — June 13, 2013 @ 12:11 am |
[…] It is my suggestion that “totalitarianism” as a conception was invented by social democrats in order to remove the stain of proto-fascism from themselves. Hence, in opposition to these admittedly violent dictatorships, they could grab the flag of freedom, while conflating Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union as structurally equivalent tyrannies, and as predictable outcomes of the Enlightenment. Such a strategy was brilliant, for it constructed statist New Dealers in America as the polar opposites of the hated dictators, notwithstanding the New Deal’s social policy rejection of the Enlightenment conception of the autonomous individual in favor of collectivist political identities and rule by Platonic guardians. Indeed, many of Roosevelt’s social psychologists and sociologists were busy looting Hitler’s remarkable sykewar arsenal, admiring Hitler’s management of “the little man” whom they held responsible for his popular appeal. (For examples, see https://clarespark.com/2012/09/05/proto-fascism-and-the-democrat-peoples-community/, https://clarespark.com/2009/12/13/klara-hitlers-son-and-jewish-blood/, https://clarespark.com/2010/04/18/links-to-nazi-sykewar-american-style/.) […]
Pingback by Orwell, Power, and the Totalitarian State « YDS: The Clare Spark Blog — October 15, 2012 @ 9:28 pm |
[…] Social Democracy was an aristocratic response to the rise of the industrial bourgeoisie and the Frankenstein monster Adam Smith & Co. had spawned. Its chief proponents in Europe were Disraeli, Christian Socialists, Bismarck, and Pope Leo III (author of Rerum Novarum). Together, they offered a competing notion of Enlightenment to the rabble-rousers of the anti-clerical French Enlightenment. I call their ideology and its chief lights “the moderate men,” believers in the creed of “progressivism.” In America, the early progressives might be Mugwumps, then radical advocates of a “cooperative Commonwealth.” As shown elsewhere on this website, social psychologists allied with the Roosevelt administration did not hesitate to deploy German or Nazi methods in managing the “masses” they held responsible for supporting Hitler. (See https://clarespark.com/2010/04/18/links-to-nazi-sykewar-american-style/.) […]
Pingback by Political hate speech in the media « YDS: The Clare Spark Blog — August 30, 2012 @ 8:41 pm |
[…] Taken as a whole, a detached observer might conclude that the Democratic Party is waging “total war” on their challengers for the presidency. This is nothing new for the Democrats. As I showed in prior blogs, Claude Bowers laid out his program here: https://clarespark.com/2011/12/10/before-saul-alinsky-rules-for-democratic-politicians/. But see also the “progressive” appropriation of German/Nazi methods of mind management here: https://clarespark.com/2010/04/18/links-to-nazi-sykewar-american-style/. […]
Pingback by Democratic Party talking points 2012 « YDS: The Clare Spark Blog — August 26, 2012 @ 6:51 pm |
[…] https://clarespark.com/2010/04/18/links-to-nazi-sykewar-american-style/ […]
Pingback by Links to blogs on military psychiatry « YDS: The Clare Spark Blog — April 2, 2012 @ 5:31 pm |
[…] Or for the background to this appropriation of Nazi techniques, see https://clarespark.com/2010/04/18/links-to-nazi-sykewar-american-style/. Four segments pick out highlights of Ladislas Farago’s important book, sponsored by leading […]
Pingback by Managing the little man, Hitler style, at Harvard « YDS: The Clare Spark Blog — March 29, 2012 @ 1:49 am |
[…] https://clarespark.com/2010/04/18/links-to-nazi-sykewar-american-style/. […]
Pingback by Henry A. Murray and the TAT « YDS: The Clare Spark Blog — March 26, 2012 @ 7:57 pm |
[…] lying. It is all shocking, and justifies everything on my blog to date. For the complete series see https://clarespark.com/2010/04/18/links-to-nazi-sykewar-american-style/. Like this:LikeBe the first to like this post. Comments […]
Pingback by Nazi sykewar, American style, part one « YDS: The Clare Spark Blog — February 19, 2012 @ 9:39 pm |
[…] more documentation of progressive movement appropriations of Nazi mind-management techniques, see https://clarespark.com/2010/04/18/links-to-nazi-sykewar-american-style/. Advertisement GA_googleAddAttr("AdOpt", "1"); GA_googleAddAttr("Origin", "other"); […]
Pingback by The State of the Union Stinks « YDS: The Clare Spark Blog — January 26, 2012 @ 6:15 pm |
[…] Perhaps Dodd’s initial appointment reflects an agrarian outlook by Roosevelt, and even Larson. Defending Dodd from columnist Drew Pearson’s judgment that Dodd was a failure, Larson writes “[Dodd] had spent the better part of four years seeking to fulfill Roosevelt’s mandate to serve as a model of American values and believed he had done as well as any man could have been expected to do, given the strange, irrational, and brutal nature of Hitler’s government “(p.342). Can American society be said to be the exact, entirely rational antithesis of Nazi Germany? Was there no cult of the Leader in the U.S. at that time, were there no supporters of “the new Germany” in the Ivy League and elsewhere? Were irrational methods of mass persuasion not being advocated by influential social psychologists even at Harvard? Indeed, were not important progressives consciously copying Nazi methods of mind-management? (See https://clarespark.com/2011/03/27/progressive-mind-managers-ca-1941-42/; also https://clarespark.com/2010/04/18/links-to-nazi-sykewar-american-style/. […]
Pingback by Review: In The Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson « YDS: The Clare Spark Blog — August 14, 2011 @ 11:31 pm |