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in the past, and the insight which this knowledge affords. The magazine is a response to the widespread and growing feeling that the forces and principles which have produced the modern chaos are incapable of yielding any solution; that the only hope is a return to fundamentals and tested principles which have been largely pushed aside.
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political content rather than relying on unsolicited submissions. As a result, the journal reflected his traditionalist polemics, for which he said he was "willing to incur the charge of being fanatical and extreme – to publish and write more extreme stuff than I actually whole-heartedly accept – in
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is founded to give greater currency to the ideas of a number of groups and individuals who are radically critical of conditions prevalent in the modern world, but launch their criticism from a "traditionalist" basis: from the basis of a firm grasp on the immense body of experience accumulated by men
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featured the work of a range of socially conscious essayists, critics, poets, novelists, scholars, historians, and journalists. Although Collins viewed all of their work as complementary to his own ideology, most on this list are not otherwise known to have shared the same views on fascism or race,
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and eventually broke ties with Collins. A number of other contributors, embarrassed by the incident, claimed ignorance or outrage that their work had been used in the service of a broader political mission which had at its core certain principles they did not agree with. The Agrarian and journalist
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very much" and went on to say he did not consider Hitler's treatment of Jews "persecution" because "The Jews make trouble" and "It is necessary to segregate them." Although he took exception to Lumpkin's use of his comments to paint the Agrarians as fascist in nature, he had already been accused of
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and an editorial note from Collins advertising future coverage of "Fascist economics ... which have received scant treatment by our universally liberal and radical press." Still, the four political entities and Collins maintained a productive, if not always agreeable, relationship via the
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Collins himself was provocative in public as well as in print, expressing a number of unpopular opinions on politics and society. The extreme nature of some of his positions, or at least his presentation of them, drove collaborators away. An interview with
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to maintain a consistency of voice that had not been possible at more liberal publications, and his attempt to synthesize multiple otherwise disparate conservative movements into an antimodernist coherent whole has attracted much scholarly interest.
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By the end of 1936 most of the important contributors to the journal had distanced themselves from it. It became more difficult for Collins to continue and in 1937, after he opened what he called "New York's only Right-wing bookshop",
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and at the same time claim to oppose fascism, and furthermore that he "would not, now that its policies have become unmistakably clear, write a piece for
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in 1933. There were 71 issues published, containing articles, editorials, notes, and reviews, before the journal ceased operations in October 1937.
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To manage the composition and production of the journal Collins employed a small staff. For most of the run of the journal its editors were
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Lafferty, David (2013). "Castor Oil for Conservatives: Wyndham Lewis's Count Your Dead: They Are Alive! and "Bolsho-Tory" Politics".
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was particularly damaging. Collins responded to one of the interviewer's questions by affirming: "Yes, I am a fascist. I admire
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Stone Jr., Albert E. (1960). "Seward Collins and the American Review: Experiment in Pro-Fascism, 1933–37".
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if it were the last publication left in America – as it might become if America goes fascist!"
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and of supporting a version of fascism in America, and so stood by his statements.
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and even pro-fascist essays and editorials. Its debut issue included an article by
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And Then They Loved Him: Seward Collins & the Chimera of an American Fascism
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The Fourth Ghost: White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930–1950
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order to help define and clarify issues." His commissioning enabled the
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became one of Collins's most vehement detractors. In an interview with
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Where No Flag Flies: Donald Davidson and the Southern Resistance.
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Where No Flag Flies: Donald Davidson and the Southern Resistance
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The Agrarians immediately began to distance themselves from the
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in praise of the fascist political structure then in place in
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he said it was "illogical" for anyone to be associated with
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Defunct literary magazines published in the United States
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The journal quickly became known for its publication of
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Collins, Seward (2003) , Schneider, Gregory L. (ed.),
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Conservative magazines published in the United States
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The Conservative Century: From Reaction to Revolution
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for most of the publication's relatively short life.
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Hart, James D.; Leininger, Phillip W., eds. (1995).
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The Conservative Press in Twentieth-century America
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Index

American Review
Seward Collins
OCLC
1480672
magazine
fascist
Seward Collins
The Bookman
conservative
Fascist
traditionalist
Distributists
Neo-scholastics
New Humanists
Agrarians
Geoffrey Stone
Marvin McCord Lowes
Dorothea Brande
Allen Tate
reactionary
Harold Goad
Italy
FIGHT against War and Fascism
Grace Lumpkin
Hitler
Mussolini
antisemitism
Herbert Agar
Marxist Quarterly
Herbert Agar

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