German Fascism lives on under the cloak of "Antifascism"

It's similar in Britain.

"A close friend of mine, Jost Bauch, who teaches general sociology and sociology of medicine as a part-time professor at the German University of Konstanz, has recently seen what he had of a career brought to a grinding halt.

Probably because of his non-leftist views, which stand out in the leftist and anti-nationalist German university system, Jost was never allowed to move beyond part-time work, despite his advanced degrees and multiple professional publications.

About a year ago, while lecturing on cultural tensions, Jost made isolated references in a lecture to Carl Schmitt, as an exponent of the friend/enemy theory of political association, and to Samuel Huntington, as a Harvard professor who had addressed “cultural clashes” in international relations.

Despite the stunning innocuousness of these references, “Wanted” posters, with Jost’s face on them, were soon plastered on the walls of the University buildings. The posters accused him of “cultural racism” for bringing up authorities who were seen as hostile to the multicultural project of local student organizers. On January 28, the student assembly called for his dismissal. Action toward this end is now under consideration by the university administration.

To make matter even worse, student “antifascist” groups have swung into action, lining up in front of Jost’s classes to prevent students from entering and threatening his physical safety.

The resemblance between these bullying fanatics and the Nazi youth who prevented university students from entering the classes of Jewish professors in the 1930s would seem too obvious to be missed.

The Dean of his division has openly taken the side of the student agitators (who were supposedly only protecting the German people against its “fascist past”.)

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The reference to Schmitt (1888 – 1985) was a bit incautious. Schmitt was a defender of the authoritarian state so initially got on well with the Nazis in the Germany of the 1930s but they eventually disowned him on the grounds that he was not sincerely antisemitic.

The thing that the students of today seem to have missed, however, is that Schmitt's defence of big and powerful government has in recent years attracted Leftists and they have "rediscovered" him despite his old Nazi connections. It is actually quite Leftist to quote Schmitt among political philosophers these days.