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Section: Points of View

Reflections after Reading The Behemoth

Marcin Kula

j.m.kula@uw.edu.pl

Professor of Human Studies, historian, sociologist, retired lecturer at Warsaw University, currently lectures at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw; specializes in social history; author of a number of publications on history of Poland and Latin America, as well on historical memory and memory carriers; in 2007 published Autoportret rodziny X. Fragment żydowskiej Warszawy lat międzywojennych, which received the Polityka weekly Historical Award; recntly published the series of Wykłady z socjologii historycznejTrzeba mieć pieniądze (2014), Trzeba pracować i produkować (2014), Trzeba jeść (2015), Trzeba mieszkać, myć się i ubierać (2015), Trzeba wydorośleć (2016), Trzeba zapanować nad przestrzenią (2018), and Trzeba oswoić własne miejsce (2018).

The Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw

Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 12 (2016), pages: 435-448

Publication date: 2016-11-30

https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.427

Abstract

The author presents his reflections on Franz Neumann’s Behemoth. He appreciates the extensiveness of Neumann’s analysis of the phenomenon of German fascism during the war, combined with the presentation of the intellectual genesis of many fascist views and the similarities between Nazism and various contemporary currents of European and American thought. The article inquires about the similarities between fascism and communism. Referring to the current state of knowledge and direct experiences, the author discusses the following similarities: the use to terror, expansiveness, the emphasis on economic growth, the great role of the party, which subordinated the public institutions to itself, the ideological and propaganda legitimization of actions, the offering of social advancement to various groups, etc. Nevertheless, Kula does not fail to point out the different placement of emphases in these two systems.

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Kula, M. (2016). Reflections after Reading The Behemoth. Zagłada Żydów. Studia I Materiały, (12), 435-448. https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.427

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                            View No. 12 (2016)

No. 12 (2016)

ISSN:
1895-247X
eISSN:
2657-3571

Data publikacji:
2016-11-30

Dział: Points of View