Amos Oz Quotes
Every decent man had to be against fascism, period.
Oz, Amos. How to Cure a Fanatic. Princeton University Press, 2006.
This is one of the first literary works explicitly attacking Fascism at the start of WWII. The quotation is a line of the protagonist. The play opened in New York and shortly after President Roosevelt ordered a command performance at the National Theater in Washington. A Movie with Bette Davis and Paul Lukas was then made of the play. Many films and plays with anti-Fascist, anti-Nazi themes followed.
The Second World War placed German Communists in a dilemma. The capitalistic democracies had been an enemy of communism, but the worst enemy was Fascism and there was nothing worse than German Fascism who victimized the German communists. Therefore, the democracies were not to be regarded as the enemy of German or world communism.
See Huey Long for a similar point of view.
70 years after Fascism was defeated in Italy, there were still a number of right wing politicians who still espoused some of the Fascist principles. “Abjure” means to repudiate.
Amos Oz was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onwards, Oz was a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.