ABSTRACT
The work of Lewis Feuer provides a kaleidoscopic view of many tendencies and trends within contemporary social science. Feuer fully appreciated the fact that the twentieth century is polarized into diametrically opposite secular faiths. The phenomenon of left-wing fascism and imperialism has become one way of accomplishing what Feuer terms a process of acknowledgment of that tremendous segment of reality that the early Marxist philosophy has come closest to grasping. To study the totalitarian phenomenon seriously means to get beyond dogmatism into actual ideological permutations and combinations, which still retain a lively sense of politics. The United States has been singularly prone to look benignly upon the forces of left-wing fascism because it so adroitly managed to escape the real thing, namely, European fascism on one side and Soviet totalitarianism on the other. As a people, Americans are thus more ready to assume the best, not only in people but also in extremist propaganda systems.
