Ralph Dumain - The Paranoia Papers: Selected Bibliography Theory of the (Un)Natural History of Social Paranoia
Fascism has awakened a sleeping world to the realities of the irrational, mystical character structure of the people of the world: Wilhelm Reich... .. the concept of ideology makes sense only in relation to the truth or untruth of what it refers to. There can be no talk of socially necessary delusions except in regard to what would not be a delusion - Theodor W. Adorno
Fascism has opened up the depths of society for politics. Today, not only in peasant homes but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside of the twentieth century the tenth or the thirteenth. A hundred million people use electricity and still believe in the magic power of signs and exorcisms. The Pope of Rome broadcasts over the radio about the miraculous transformation of water into wine. Movie stars go to mediums. Aviators who pilot miraculous mechanisms created by man's genius wear amulets on their sweaters... What inexhaustible reserves they possess of darkness, ignorance, and savagery! Despair has raised them to their feet; fascism has given them a banner. Everything that should have been eliminated from the national organism in the form of cultural excrement in the course of the normal development of society has now come gushing out from the throat; capitalist society is puking up the undigested barbarism. Such is the physiology of National Socialism. — Leon Trotsky
For it is just here that we find the perfect expression of that dialectical unity of cynical nihilism and speculative, uncritical credulity and frivolous superstition which every irrationalism contains implicitly and which simply acquired a matching figure in Hitler — Georg Lukács
Well-informed cynicism is only another mode of conformity. These people willingly embrace or force themselves to accept the rule of the stronger as the eternal norm. Their whole life is a continuous effort to suppress and abase nature, inwardly or outwardly, and to identify themselves with its more powerful surrogates—the race, fatherland, leader, cliques, and tradition. — Max Horkheimer
Source - Ralph Dumain: The Paranoia Papers: Selected Bibliography Theory of the (Un)Natural History of Social Paranoia
Selected Books
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Social Studies Series, publication no. 3)
Baringer, Sandra. The Metanarrative of Suspicion in
Late Twentieth-Century America. New York: Routledge, 2004. Contents.
Barkun, Michael. A
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Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. (Comparative Studies in
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description.
Bloch, Ernst. Heritage of Our Times; translated
by Neville and Stephen Plaice. Berkeley: University of California Press,
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Brennan, Teresa. The Age of Paranoia. R.S. Means
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Bronner, Stephen Eric. A
Rumor about the Jews: Antisemitism, Conspiracy, and the Protocols of Zion.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. (1st ed., 2000)
Clymer, Jeffory A. America’s Culture of Terrorism:
Violence, Capitalism, and the Written Word. Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 2003. (Cultural Studies of the United States)
Coady, David, ed. Conspiracy Theories: The
Philosophical Debate. Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT:
Ashgate, 2006. Contents.
Cohen, Edmund D. The
Mind of the Bible-Believer. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1986.
Davis, David Brion, ed. The Fear of Conspiracy:
Images of Un-American Subversion from the Revolution to the Present.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1971.
Dean, Jodi. Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures
from Outerspace to Cyberspace. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998.
Dentith, Matthew R. X. The Philosophy of Conspiracy
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Freiman, Ori. “Knowledge in a
Conspiratorial World” [review], The Berlin Review of Books,
March 31, 2017.
Fenster, Mark. Conspiracy
Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture. Rev. and updated ed.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Contents &
extract.
Fromm, Erich. The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness.
New York: H. Holt, 1992. (Originally published 1973.)
Girard, René. Violence
and the Sacred, translated by Patrick Gregory. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1977.
Graumann, Carl F.; and Moscovici, Serge; eds. Changing
Conceptions of Conspiracy. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1987. (Springer
Series in Social Psychology)
Jackson, John L., Jr. Racial Paranoia: The Unintended
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Jeurgensmeyer, Mark, ed. Violence and the Sacred in
the Modern World. London; Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1992. See also Mark Juergensmeyer | Global Studies, UCSB; Mark Juergensmeyer -
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Johnson, George. Architects of Fear: Conspiracy
Theories and Paranoia in American Politics. Los Angeles: J.P. Tarcher;
Boston: Distributed by Houghton Mifflin, 1983.
Knight, Peter. Conspiracy Culture: From the Kennedy
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Langman, Lauren; Kalekin-Fishman, Devorah; eds. The
Evolution of Alienation: Trauma, Promise, and the Millennium. Lanham, MD:
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Marcus, George E., ed. Paranoia
within Reason: A Casebook on Conspiracy as Explanation. Chicago:
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Melley, Timothy. Empire
of Conspiracy: The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America. Ithaca, NY:
Cornell University Press, 2000.
Memmi, Albert. The Colonizer and the Colonized;
introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre, afterword by Susan Gilson Miller, translated
by Howard Greenfeld. Expanded ed. Boston: Beacon Press, 1991. (First published
in English in 1965.)
Parish, Jane; Parker, Martin; eds. The Age of Anxiety:
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Reich, Wilhelm. The Mass Psychology of Fascism,
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Béland, Daniel. Review, Canadian
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Sartre, Jean-Paul. Anti-Semite and Jew;
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Books, distributed by Pantheon Books, 1995. (Originally published 1948.)
Taussig,
Michael T. The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America.
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1980.
Wheatley, Kim. Shelley and His Readers: Beyond
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Herf on Reactionary Modernism & Dialectic of Enlightenment
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Dumain’s Critique of Dialectic of Enlightenment
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Marxist Theory of Fascism (1997) by Dave Renton
Interview
with Enzo Traverso on post-fascism, left melancholy, and the memory of defeat
Bangladesh
1971: the forgotten template of 20th century war - by Gita Sahgal
The
UN & War Crimes Trials for Pakistani Soldiers in Bangladesh 1971–1974
Bangladesh:
Post Poll Politics and Attacks on Minorities - reports, commentary and
statements
Modi
says Congress committed 'sin' of partition / The Non-politics of the RSS
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matter of time - An essay on ideology and terror
An Open Letter to the world on the Bangladesh crisis of 1971
Communist
Party of India's resolution on Pakistan and National Unity, September 1942
Communist
Party of India Report (1950) - Imperialist aggression in Kashmir
Pakistan or the Partition of India (B.R. Ambedkar, Bombay, 1940, republished 1945)
Sris
Chandra Chattopadhya on the Objectives Resolution, Constituent Assembly of
Pakistan
CPI's Dhanwantri
report: Bleeding Punjab Warns
The law of killing: a brief history of Indian fascism
The citation below is from p. 27 of Franz
Neumann's book on Nazism Behemoth, The Structure and Practice of
National Socialism, published 1942, and republished 1963, p 27
(The counter revolution) ‘…tried many forms and devices,
but soon learned that it could come to power only with the help of the state
machine and never against it… the Kapp Putsch of 1920 and the Hitler Pustch of
1923 had proved this.. In the centre of the counter revolution stood the
judiciary. Unlike administrative acts, which rest on considerations of
convenience and expediency, judicial decisions rest on law, that is on right
and wrong, and they always enjoy the limelight of publicity. Law is perhaps the
most pernicious of all weapons in political struggles, precisely because of the
halo that surrounds the concepts of right and justice… ‘Right’, Hocking has
said, ‘is psychologically a claim whose infringement is met with a resentment
deeper than the injury would satisfy, a resentment that may amount to passion
for which men will risk life and property as they would never do for an
expediency’. When it becomes ‘political’, justice breeds hatred and despair
among those it singles out for attack. Those whom it favours, on the other
hand, develop a profound contempt for the very value of justice, they know that
it can be purchased by the powerful. As a device for strengthening one
political group at the expense of others, for eliminating enemies and assisting
political allies, law then threatens the fundamental convictions upon which the
tradition of our civilization rests…
