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15.06.2018 | Commentary

Why Steve Bannon Is Not a Fascist

verfasst von: Alan Kahan

Erschienen in: Society | Ausgabe 4/2018

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Abstract

Steve Bannon has often been accused of fascism by his opponents. His real intellectual affiliation, however, is with the first generation of American neo-conservatives of the 1960s, people like Daniel Bell and Irving Kristol. Like them he criticizes immoral elites and an amoral version of capitalism in the name of traditional values. His criticism is a symptom of the long-running battle between Mind and Money, the war between intellectuals and capitalism.

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Fußnoten
1
Neil Howe and William Strauss, The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy - What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny (New York, 1997).
 
2
See Alan S. Kahan, Mind vs Money: The War Between Intellectuals and Capitalism (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2010; London: Routledge, 2017).
 
3
See Gwynn Guilford and Nikhil Sonnad, « What Steve Bannon Really Wants », in Quartz, 3 February, 2017.
 
4
The group was largely Catholic or Jewish. Michael Novak was a prominent American Catholic theologian. See Michael Novak, “What is a Neoconservative?” article posted 18 November, 2005, http://​www.​michaelnovak.​net/.
 
5
Cited in Guilford and Sonnad, « What Steve Bannon Really Wants », in Quartz, 3 February, 2017.
 
6
Steve Bannon, lecture to the Liberty Restoration Foundation, cited in Guilford and Sonnad, « What Steve Bannon Really Wants », in Quartz, 3 February, 2017.
 
7
See Kahan, Mind vs. Money. 233. Decter was a leading neocon and a board director of the Heritage Foundation and the Hoover Institute.
 
8
Kristol,Two Cheers for Capitalism (New York, 1978), 61–3; “When Virtue Loses All her Loveliness”, The Essential Neo-Conservative Reader ed. Mark Gerson (Reading, MA, 1996), 107.
 
9
They also tend to accept homosexuality.
 
10
See Jonathan Swan, Axios, March, 2017; Christopher Lasch, The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy (New Tork, 1995), 45–9. Another work of Lasch’s, The Culture of Narcissism, an attack on the counterculture reminiscent of Bannon’s assault on the baby-boomers, is also reminiscent of the neoconservative critique of capitalism. See p. 235.
 
11
Lasch, The Revolt of the Elites, 83, 101.
 
12
In another time and place, this would have meant the Jews, of course.
 
13
Trump Inaugural Address
 
14
Bannon’s 2014 speech at the Human Dignity Institute in Rome, whose transcript was downloaded from BuzzFeed News. It is available at https://​www.​buzzfeed.​com/​lesterfeder/​this-is-how-steve-bannon-sees-the-entire-world?​utm_​term=​.​jnDYq20K9B#.​tr3rJLoX75. All speech references that follow are to this speech.
 
15
See Kahan, Mind vs. Money
 
16
Bannon speech.
 
17
Guilford and Sonnad, « What Steve Bannon Really Wants »; Bannon interview with NY Times, 26 January, 2017.
 
18
Bannon speech cited above.
 
19
For example, the Personalism of Emmanuel Mounier. Jean Paul II was also a personalist.
 
Metadaten
Titel
Why Steve Bannon Is Not a Fascist
verfasst von
Alan Kahan
Publikationsdatum
15.06.2018
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Society / Ausgabe 4/2018
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Elektronische ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-018-0259-5

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