Great

An insightful look into radical right wing thought that is non bias and informative. Probably one of the best books on audible about it!

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Essential Reading for understanding the Far Right

As someone firmly on the Marxist left, I found this book a fascinating and intellectually rigorous dive into the philosophers and core ideas of the fascist right. I also found the robust defense of Christianity against fascist critiques at the end to be well argued and insightful.

Regardless of where you happen to be on the political spectrum, this book will increase your understanding and broaden your perspective.

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Fascinating Peek into Alien Philosophy

This book has done an excellent job helping me understand a political stance offensive to my sensibilities and alien to my core values.

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An intellectually honest peek into the Far Right

As a small c conservative/small l libertarian Republican who has been struggling to put into context the current swing of right-wing thought in America, (one that I don't agree with) this book was eye opening. The author was intellectually honest in his review of the philosophies of the far right and offered refreshing critiques of the ideas that were willing to note what these far right thinkers were getting at that is attracting people to their ideas. In doing so, he actually sometimes seems to bolster or agree with the ideas, but he actually goes to these places in order to masterfully show the faults in logic and where supporters of liberalism can go in order to understand and fight back against the power of them. While not agreeing with them, he speaks to the natural human impulses that WE ALL FEEL to explain why there is both a long-standing and newfound attraction to far-right philosophy. I believe the ideas of many thinkers covered in this book are virtually guaranteed to gain importance in the coming years. While I don't think that the adopters of these ideas will necessarily know these thinkers by name, I already see adoption of the ideas growing within American society. They won't know these thinkers by name because tendencies toward these philosophies are on some level an innate reaction of people living in the modern world to the current liberal order. If you believe that, despite its sometimes serious shortcomings, a liberal world is worth protecting and standing for, then it is imperative that you get familiar with the ideas of your ideological opponents. This is where you start.

Great book Matthew Rose!

Ignore at your own risk

This book, written from the perspective of a believer in liberalism, is a tour de force in intellectual charity. Indeed, the author exemplifies a profound understanding of what those of the radical right actually believe and wish to see in the world.

This book is a necessity for those who seek to understand the furthest fringes of right wing ideology, as the present progressive orthodoxy is woefully unequipped to do so. The self-declared victory of liberalism was perhaps premature, and Mr. Rose demonstrates why this deserves your attention.