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Secret Sources of the Success of the Racist Ideology*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Yves R. Simon
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To Understand the extraordinary fortunes of racism, it is necessary first of all to see the paradox in the success of this ideology. Racism has been condemned over and over again by the Church; it has been refuted a thousand times—and without any great difficulty—for never has a theory with scientific pretensions produced such an accumulation of inconsistencies, of manifestly arbitrary affirmations, of fantastic generalizations and of grotesque constructions. In the course of the last few years racism has been guilty of colossal crimes, crimes that must fill with indignation every soul in which there exists the slightest sentiment of justice or of charity. We are today witnessing the defeat of those temporal powers in which it is incarnate. For all that, racism still flourishes, and nothing would be more un warranted than to say that this plague is in decline.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Review of Politics , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , January 1945 , pp. 74 - 105
Copyright
Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1945

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