Timothy Snyder Quotes
Both Fascism And Communism Were Responses To Globalization: To The Real And Perceived Inequalities It Created, And The Apparent Helplessness Of The Democracies In Addressing Them. Fascists Rejected Reason In The Name Of Will, Denying Objective Truth In Favor Of A Glorious Myth Articulated By Leaders Who Claimed To Give Voice To The People. They Put A Face On Globalization, Arguing That Its Complex Challenges Were The Result Of A Conspiracy Against The Nation. Fascists Ruled For A Decade Or Two, Leaving Behind An Intact Intellectual Legacy That Grows More Relevant By The Day. Communists Ruled For Longer, For Nearly Seven Decades In The Soviet Union, And More Than Four Decades In Much Of Eastern Europe. They Proposed Rule By A Disciplined Party Elite With A Monopoly On Reason That Would Guide Society Toward A Certain Future According To Supposedly Fixed Laws Of History. We
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