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    1. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jun 24

      1/ “Weimar Syndrome” is a political disease that compels people to compare every political situation to the Weimar Republic. This is partly because, in Britain at least, it is taught in all schools as a prophylactic against totalitarianism.

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    2. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jun 24

      2/ But comparing everything to Weimar has a distinct appeal for liberals, neo-fascists, and Marxists. For liberals it’s a chance to rally the troops, “It’s 1932! The barbarians are at the gates of liberal democracy!” This dramatises any political situation.

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    3. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jun 24

      3/ For Marxists, it’s a chance to rally people under the banner of anti-fascism, which—owing to WWII—is now an easy sell for the gullible. “This time we know what happens! This time we win!” They fantasise about being the person who should have shot Hitler in 1932.

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    4. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jun 24

      4/ Further, Marxists also know that the extreme conditions of Weimar, particularly the Great Depression seemed to bear out their ideas. So they’re hoping for a chance to be vindicated again.

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    5. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jun 24

      5/ The appeal for neo-fascists is pretty obvious: they win again. But, contra the Marxists, they’re more interested in innumerating sexual and moral decline rather than economic chaos. Having watched Cabaret, they know Weimar was rife with his.

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    6. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jun 24

      6/ They’re all wrong, of course. Well, not wrong exactly—but they’re seeing what they want to see. The Great Recession=the Great Depression, Trump=Hitler, Same-Sex marriage+Tinder=Sally Bowles, and so on. But they miss quite how different Weimar was...

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    7. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jun 24

      7/ What they ignore is that Germany had been humiliated, broken, occupied, & lost a generation of men to the world’s first technological war. She then had a civil war. The Geat Reccession, the “war on terror”, & a few fisticuffs betwee and anti-fa & the alt-right do not compare.

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    8. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jun 24

      8/ A true equivalent would be a war between US-China involving novel weapons (drones, for example) that resulted in the US losing and California (Ruhr equivalent) being occupied. This would be followed by a coup attempt by Bernie Sanders supporters. PRC demands US pays war costs.

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    9. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jun 24

      9/ So “Weimar Syndrome” is more about wish-fulfilment on all sides and is a product of the liberal education system’s defence mechanisms. I don’t deny there are parallels. History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes etc. But how about another parallel for a change?

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      Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jun 24

      10/ The Thermidor Reaction? Nixon? The Peleponnesian War? Chile in ‘73. There are patterns in all these things that repeat. In a way, if you love 1920-1930, Mussolini’s March on Rome is more interesting given that Italy was a victor of WWI. It’s a bit of variation, anyway.

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