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[QUOTE=Ganelon;857255]Crazy scientists weren't the sole basis of fascism, but they allowed it to flourish. just like crazy economic theorists (Marx) allowed Communism to flourish.
plus, the most important thing is, it proves that these ideologies didn't exactly appear out of nowhere.[/QUOTE]

True.

And yes, nazism isn't very good publicity :P

Originally Posted by Ganelon

Crazy scientists weren't the sole basis of fascism, but they allowed it to flourish. just like crazy economic theorists (Marx) allowed Communism to flourish.
plus, the most important thing is, it proves that these ideologies didn't exactly appear out of nowhere.

True.

And yes, nazism isn't very good publicity :P

Wow... I had heard that the Nazis had used colonial British "racial ranking" as part of their basis for their own ranking, but that's a lot worse.

And yzb, I think you're both right and wrong. There sure were people who had a big background of such things, but that was out of the knowledge range of many, many people who just were indeed "angry because of the Depression", so to speak. Those two aspects are not mutually exclusive, but complementary.

Plus, crazy sciencists aren't the basis of fascism; Mussolini's regime is a good proof of this. It's about the State, not the race. Nazism and fascism are closely related, but they are not the same.

Wow... I had heard that the Nazis had used colonial British "racial ranking" as part of their basis for their own ranking, but that's a lot worse.

And yzb, I think you're both right and wrong. There sure were people who had a big background of such things, but that was out of the knowledge range of many, many people who just were indeed "angry because of the Depression", so to speak. Those two aspects are not mutually exclusive, but complementary.

Plus, crazy sciencists aren't the basis of fascism; Mussolini's regime is a good proof of this. It's about the State, not the race. Nazism and fascism are closely related, but they are not the same.