“The political and moral deformations and intellectual helplessness of Germany today are more dangerous than at any other time since 1945… The country that laid waste the moral structure of western society looks feeble again before the economic crises and social breakdowns of capitalism that first produced fascism.
Revealingly, the binary of the enlightened west and unenlightened east – once used to authorise the Nazi quest for Lebensraum in the east and then adapted to serve cold war policy agendas – is the currency today of far-right nationalists across Israel, Europe and America… And there was much about western democracies – especially their foundations in white supremacy, and cultures of racism and antisemitism – that allowed Hitler to believe that they would welcome his extermination of Jews.”
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