Page 1. THE MCCARTHY PHENOMENON Norman D. Markowitz ... Against this trend there has also emerged... more Page 1. THE MCCARTHY PHENOMENON Norman D. Markowitz ... Against this trend there has also emerged in recent years a kind of backlash scholarship dedicated to the proposition that the Truman postwar policies were decent and well-meaning and beleaguered by the ...
The following is a paper submitted for an international cultural studies conference The Recycling... more The following is a paper submitted for an international cultural studies conference The Recycling of Anti-Communist Cold War Ideology and the “Triumph” of Donald Trump Today major aspects of Cold War ideology are being recycled to interpret the election of Donald Trump and the rise of European political parties long associated with the ultra- right to a level of influence that they have not had since the defeat of the Fascist Axis powers in WWII. The major point of my presentation to this conference is that the use of these concepts which have played a central role in U.S. political culture are ahistorical and in effect provide a kind of intellectual cover for politicians like Trump in the U. S. and Le Pen in France, as they did for various military junta regimes and former appeasers of and collaborators with German Fascism and Japanese Imperialism both before during WW II and especial-ly after WWII, when they were institutionalized in U.S. political culture. Today they serve as roadblocks rather than stepping stones to both an understanding of and the development of effective opposition to the Trump administration in the U.S. and abroad. As a Marxist historian, I see under-standing and action as dialectically inter-related and, to use a term from the American revolution, indivisible
Page 1. THE MCCARTHY PHENOMENON Norman D. Markowitz ... Against this trend there has also emerged... more Page 1. THE MCCARTHY PHENOMENON Norman D. Markowitz ... Against this trend there has also emerged in recent years a kind of backlash scholarship dedicated to the proposition that the Truman postwar policies were decent and well-meaning and beleaguered by the ...
The following is a paper submitted for an international cultural studies conference The Recycling... more The following is a paper submitted for an international cultural studies conference The Recycling of Anti-Communist Cold War Ideology and the “Triumph” of Donald Trump Today major aspects of Cold War ideology are being recycled to interpret the election of Donald Trump and the rise of European political parties long associated with the ultra- right to a level of influence that they have not had since the defeat of the Fascist Axis powers in WWII. The major point of my presentation to this conference is that the use of these concepts which have played a central role in U.S. political culture are ahistorical and in effect provide a kind of intellectual cover for politicians like Trump in the U. S. and Le Pen in France, as they did for various military junta regimes and former appeasers of and collaborators with German Fascism and Japanese Imperialism both before during WW II and especial-ly after WWII, when they were institutionalized in U.S. political culture. Today they serve as roadblocks rather than stepping stones to both an understanding of and the development of effective opposition to the Trump administration in the U.S. and abroad. As a Marxist historian, I see under-standing and action as dialectically inter-related and, to use a term from the American revolution, indivisible
Analytical Review for H-NET of Howard Brick, Christopher Phelps. Radicals in America: The US Lef... more Analytical Review for H-NET of Howard Brick, Christopher Phelps. Radicals in America: The US Left since the Second World War. Cambridge Essential Histories Series. Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2015. 366 pp. $24.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-73133-1; $94.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-51560-3.
Reviewed by Norman Markowitz (Rutgers University) Published on H-1960s (February, 2016)
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since the Second World War. Cambridge Essential Histories Series.
Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2015. 366 pp. $24.99
(paper), ISBN 978-0-521-73133-1; $94.99 (cloth), ISBN
978-0-521-51560-3.
Reviewed by Norman Markowitz (Rutgers University)
Published on H-1960s (February, 2016)