The best argument against Nazism, which has been made by...

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry@pegobry_en
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Mar 22, 2025
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The best argument against Nazism, which has been made by traditionalists and reactionaries as well as more centrist/lib types, is that its kind of hypercharged kind of Darwinian/German-romantic/Nietzschean/pagan ethos just requires conflict as a raison d'être and so it was always going to end in some kind of Gotterdammerung, and even if they had defeated all enemies (a tall order even for the Wehrmacht) the regime would have started eating itself from the inside; once you got rid of the Jews, you need another scapegoat, and another scapegoat, and another, until it becomes a kind of giant North Korea (albeit with great aesthetics).
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There's a Girardian spin on this, which is that Christianity has exposed the scapegoat myth which is at the basis of society, but the problem is that this makes society difficult/impossible to run. The Nazi answer is that you need to HYPERCHARGE the scapegoating. That probably doesn't work very well either. I suppose we'll never know because we never ran the full experiment.
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The left answer is that you need to scapegoat the scapegoater: the white, heterosexual, Christian male.