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The work of Lewis Feuer provides a kaleidoscopic view of many tendencies and trends within contemporary social science. Above all, he illustrates the fission—fusion trend in intellectual currents as exemplified in the work of Spinoza, Marx, Freud, and Einstein. He not only writes brilliantly on these figures now appended with ‘isms’, but his work is permeated by socialist, physicalist, and psychoanalytical explanations of political events.1 In this sense, Feuer is an old-fashioned thinker in the best sense, someone who combines in his person radical persuasions with democratic practice in a variety of fields. His work is not so much anti-communist, as it is anti-totalitarian. I dare say he has been singled out as a Soviet bête noir precisely because he has so artfully disentangled radical rhetoric from totalitarian reality2 (Feuer, 1979).
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Horowitz, I.L. (1988). Left-Wing Fascism and Right-Wing Communism: The Fission—Fusion Effect in American Extremist Ideologies. In: Hook, S., O’Neill, W.L., O’Toole, R. (eds) Philosophy, History and Social Action. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 107. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2873-2_11
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