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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Apr 2019

      1. An erstwhile contrarian radical who hates PC SJW hipsters decides to defend a right-wing buffoon. But he knows there is no positive case to be made so he confines himself to attacking critics of the buffoon. I"m talking of course of Wyndham Lewis' anti-anti-Hitler stance.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Apr 2019

      2. Wyndham Lewis' political writings are orphaned, passed over in silence even by those who (rightly) admire his paintings & novels. And its true that Lewis' period as a Nazi fellow-traveller in1930s is indefensible. But in many ways he's a prophetic figure.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Apr 2019

      3. Thing to understand about Lewis's politics is a) he was no conservative but a radical critic of ruling class & b) he was cagey enough not to be pro-Hitler but rather positioned himself as anti-anti-Hitler. Hitler had his faults, Lewis admitted, but his critics were worse

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Apr 2019

      4. Part of Lewis' critique of established order was aimed at liberalism of Bloomsbury set (which was, admittedly, often snobbish). Lewis thought this liberalism was sentimentally exalting women, people of color, the young, and gays. In other words, he opposed "identity politics"

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Apr 2019

          5. Here in his book Hitler (1931) Lewis complains about "Sex-war" (feminism & gay rights), Age-war (i.e. goddamn Brooklyn millennial hipsters), & "Color-line-war" (anti-racism).pic.twitter.com/qPjnzVOaoz

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Apr 2019

          6. In complaining that "big business" was the force behind feminism, gay righs, youth rebellion & anti-racism, Lewis anticipates the current right-wing critique that corporate capitalism is promoting PC.

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Apr 2019

          7. Lewis saw the vogue for jazz, non-Western art & the Harlem renaissance as products of "negro-worship" from sentimental white liberals. In other words, political correctness. Hitler offered a salutary alternative of honest white pride.pic.twitter.com/WKMzfnQ4B3

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        5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Apr 2019

          8. There's a fair amount of what-about-ism in Lewis. Sure, Hitler is a loud anti-Semite. But the British ruling class are different only in vocal level. They are polite anti-Semites.pic.twitter.com/XilxLwL0rG

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        6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Apr 2019

          9. Lewis' overriding gambit, as Fredric Jameson pointed out in his terrific "Fables of Aggression; Wyndham Lewis, The Modernist as Fascist," is to treat Hitler as a victim, the punching bag of the established order. In today's language, the victim of the Deep State & Fake News.

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        7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Apr 2019

          10. Lewis, to be clear, was a skilled polemicist & was right on a few individual points (Treaty of Versailles & war debts were bad). But he was overwhelmingly wrong in the larger agenda (which was to make the most plausible case for not opposing Hitler).

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        1. On-Brand Name Haver‏ @mekanikal1 20 Apr 2019
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          the more things change....

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Apr 2019
          Replying to @ComradeMorlock @ClassFirster

          Identity politics isn't the creation of Ivy League neoliberals.

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        1. Antonio Gonzalez‏ @elmonoenano 20 Apr 2019
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