POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Lebensraum, Modernism, Totalitarianism
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Introduction: political literature surrounding fascism has failed to properly explain fascism as a single entity or political phenomenon, but as an extension of totalitarianism that applies to other ideologies. What are true examples and causes of fascism. Modernization and the nazis: the goal of nazism and nazi leaders was to transform the existing social reality into a utopian form of anti-modernism. Hitler s side of the nazi party: utopias were extreme, archaic, and unrealistic. They proposed no economic or social remedies and adjustments, and wanted to immediately substitute the existing reality with a radically new social order. Hitler s goal of cultural purity: free people from industrial society and reintroduce them into agrarian society. War-time significance: hitler was not a tool of german monopoly capitalists, who wanted to exploit and plunder to expand german business. Hitler s war-time goal: to conquer europe and gain lebensraum or arable soil for the purpose of returning germans to medieval agrarian living.
