Description
A sharp settling of accounts with French fascism. Argues that France, the homeland of human rights, is also the real homeland of Nazism, which existed 50 years before Vichy. Traces the roots of Nazism to French socialism and nationalism of the 19th century. Pp. 97-124 discuss racism and antisemitism as part of the two seemingly contradictory ideologies, as represented, inter alia, by Georges Sorel and Charles Maurras. Analyzes socialist and nationalist positions during the Dreyfus Affair. Pp. 271-291 discuss the association, in left- and right-wing circles, of the Jews with money, the worst enemy of French traditional values and society. Warns about fascist inclinations in France today. They can only be countered by strengthening the social tissue of democracy.
