Fascism and Hegel; a reading on the concurrence of theory and practice

Subject Areas : Journal of Law and Politics

Ahmad Saei ¹ , Mahmoud Moqaddas ²

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Received: 2015-07-06 Accepted : 2015-07-06 Published : 2011-07-23

Keywords: Hegel, fascism, state, war, Popper,

Abstract :

A hundred years before the rise of the third Reich, Hegel, in his writings, wished for days in which the Aria- Germanic soul and thought became the soul of the new world so that it actualized the absolute truth and accomplished his historical duty, a dream which came to true in Fascism period. Hegel considered state as the shadow of God on earth, admired the history making persons as god-like creatures and regarded war necessary for the moral correctness of the societies. Studying the foundations of Fascism reveals that the above- noted ideas are the components of fascism, nomatter how important are the ideas of some prominent philosophers such as Nieztche, croce, Ggentile, categorically, Hegel is the philosophical great-grandfather of fascism, a prominent philosopher whose philosophy is so open to interpretation that some like Popper considers fascism as an amalgamation of Hegel’s ideas and nineteenth century materialism. The point is the concurrence of theory and practice in fascism which this article tries to examine.