Why Weak Americans Run Towards Fascism
In 1941, a man who had just escaped Nazi Germany sat down at Columbia University and tried to answer the most important question of the twentieth century.
It was not “how did Hitler take power?” Historians had already begun documenting that. The question Erich Fromm needed to answer was different. It was worse.
Why did the people let him?
Not the inner circle. Not the military leaders or the party functionaries or the industrialists who funded the operation. The ordinary people. The shopkeepers and teachers and factory workers and farmers who watched a democratic republic dismantle itself and…
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