Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Carl Schmitt: The Mind Behind Modern Fascism
Thu, 22 May 2025 09:00:00 +0000
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In this episode we follow Carl Schmitt through the disillusionment of WW1, and breaking up with his con artist wife, to his creation of the Death Star of liberal democracy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What is the life of Carl Schmitt like before World War I?
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we're back man i wonder they gotta have a lot of gold buried under there right like a crazy amount like oh in the vatican yeah yeah like enough to ruin the like the price of gold worldwide if they ever put it onto the market yeah i don't think so because there were so many different things were like things were getting stolen i think they would have i there's probably secret gold but i don't know i don't think there's gotta be secret as obvious as they're
What do they use for all the lawsuits? It has to be cool. They had to have had a lot lying around for that. What if we all Naruto run into the Vatican archives and just try to see what we can get? I would have so much fun going to the Vatican archives. Find the secret sequel to the New Testament where Palpatine returns. I'm excited. I think we can make this happen.
Use your new power as fake pope. Yeah, that's right. That's right. I'll tell the Swiss guard to stand down. They're goofy outfits. Stupid ass outfits. I'll be right behind you as you do that.
In April of 1933, Schmidt joined the Nazi party officially. In May, he published an article that is generally considered to be the blueprint for the legal expulsion of German intellectuals who had unacceptable political or racial characteristics. Quote, Germany has spat them out for all time, he said. And he's talking specifically about Albert Einstein, right?
Schmidt authors the blueprint for kicking Einstein and other thinkers permanently out of the Reich. Right. And describing them as enemies. Right. And for him, this is a political term. And this is about this is one year after he breaks off his friendship with Eisler.
But he does write you as an individual can be friends with someone who is a political enemy, because, again, that's a political state. You have to treat them as an enemy when doing politics. But it doesn't mean you can't like them personally. But you're also accepting that it means killing them at a stage. So maybe you can't. I don't know, man. Well, killing them politically. Yeah.
Not as friends. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So. Is that Logic Night checkout? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. I mean, as much as anything this fucker says does. So through most of the 20s, liberals and liberalism were the center of most of Schmitt's rhetorical ire. But Jews grew more central as time went on. Now, we've already covered that he certainly imbibed the racial anti-Semitism of the era.
And he had occasional flings of bigotry during times of stress and depression. But he also spoke glowingly of several Jews in his life. Most crucially, he was completely dependent economically upon the kindness of a Jewish family who treated him as a second son. Right? Like, that's a big deal in this period of time, is that, like, there's these... This family that keeps him alive.
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Chapter 2: How does Carl Schmitt view the state and individual rights?
Yeah. Fucking Canada's an option. Yeah. Is it Portugal? Do I become a Portuguese windbag? Is that my next- Yeah, become a Portuguese windbag? You guys, it's fine. Robert will let us into the Vatican. Yeah, yeah. Thank you. The Vatican. That's where we're all gonna hide. With all the gold. Okay. So, I don't know. I tend to think what you should do is-
right um yeah and you can find a lot of the blueprints you'll need on the internet anyway uh episode is over blake uh you want to plug anything before we go yeah i would uh i have a jizz book of my own no i would like to promote um august 1st i'm going to be doing stand-up in philadelphia also at blake wexler on all social media um if you could follow me there i would love that
And I'm doing a bike ride to raise money for autism research, autism awareness, and that. If you can spare anything, times are tough right now, but any donation, if you can do it, would be great. That link is in my bio. And I have a stand-up comedy special called Daddy Long Legs, which is available for free on YouTube. And this was a blast. I have so much respect for both of you.
I don't know if I've ever said this sentence. This is a great show. This is a fantastic show. I know. No one does what you do. So, yeah, I appreciate being a part of it. We have the Pope. Thank you. We have the new Pope. We have the Pope. You do have the new Pope. And that's how you got elected by your fellow colleagues, Cardinals. Yeah. If you are a... Oh, my God.
There needs to be a podcast conclave. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, yeah. You want to see who the podcasting Pope is? Yeah. Just like the... A Pope-cast. It better not be one of the pod save guys or I'm doing a schism.
I mean, thinking about it, it would have to be in that guy, Sean Malin, who has the podcast Pantheon book coming out later this year. We're in that book, so we get to be in the conclave. If it doesn't go my way, I'm moving to Avignon, and I'm going to create a counter-conclave, and we're going to have us an anti-podcast.
Robert, the fuckery we can get. Oh, my God, Robert. It has to happen. It has to happen. Yeah, Pope save America. We could do so much fuckery. Oh, I'm plotting. I'm plotting. Okay, anyways, Blake, thank you so much for being here. This was so lovely. Oh, I loved it. Robert, that was horrifying. Did we do it in the podcast? We did the podcast. Let's go away.
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