[lit-ideas] North Dakota behind National Socialism
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Lit-Ideas" <Lit-Ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 07:26:55 -0800
I was just getting over having learned that the U.S., Colorado to be
specific, had a hand in the formation of Islamofascism - that occurring when
Sayyid Qutb was over here studying at the University of Colorado and
witnessed the shameless behavior of girls at Church Socials and dances
engaging in the shocking boogie woogie at times, thus convincing Qutb that
America was corrupt beyond repair. And now I learn that we, North Dakota to
be specific, had a hand in the formation of National Socialism:
Paxton, page 48: "The term national Socialism seems to have been invented
by the French nationalist author Maurice Barres, who described the
aristocratic adventurer the Marques de Mores in 1896 as the 'first national
socialist.' Mores, after failing as a cattle rancher in North Dakota,
returned to Paris in the early 1890s and organized a band of anti-Semitic
toughs who attacked Jewish shops and offices. As a cattleman, Mores found
his recruits among slaughterhouse workers in Paris, to whom he appealed with
a mixture of anticapitalism and anti-Semitic nationalism. His squads wore
the cowboy garb and ten-gallon hats that the marquis had discovered in the
American West, which thus predate black and brown shirts (by a modest
stretch of the imagination) as the first fascist uniform. Mores killed a
popular Jewish officer, Captain Armand Meyer, in a duel early in the Dreyfus
Affair, and was himself killed by his Touareg guides in the Sahara in 1896
on an expedition to 'unite France to Islam and to Spain.' 'Life is valuable
only through action,' he had proclaimed. 'So much the worse if the action
is mortal.'"
Certain sorts of people would do well not to visit here. It seems to make
them bitter.
Lawrence
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