But what of the further presence there of the French anarchist and socialist, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon? His name will permit the metaphor of trajectory to function so that the model of an “intrinsic” politics can be challenged, and a distinct movement in Lewis’s politics demonstrated.ĢThe existence of Hitler has caused Lewis’s extensive political writings to be read with suspicion,and often with good reason for there are writings of the 1930s as objectionable as was Hitler. That book and those views mark an inescapable point of reference for the understanding of Lewis’s politics, and for that reason the name of Hitler appears in my title. 3) who was not serious about his announced intention to persecute the Jews. For many, the publication of Lewis’s uncritical Hitler in 1931 settles the matter: an already-present tendency climaxes in the delusions that Hitler was “a Man of Peace” (title of Part II, ch. Indeed, there is widespread scepticism as to whether there was a trajectory at all, rather than an intrinsic and intransigent right-wing attitude which varied only in acquiring a particularly reprehensible aspect with the rise of Fascism in the 1930s.
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