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Modern times by paul johnson5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The ‘knights of bushido’ were the militant leadership of totalitarian Shintoism, the equivalent, in this oriental setting, of the ‘vanguard élites’ of Lenin and Mussolini, the blackshirts and brownshirts and Chekists of Europe. At all events in the 1920s it was popularized as a code of military honour, identified with extreme nationalism and militarism, and became the justification for the most grotesque practices, first the murder of individuals, later mass-cruelty and slaughter. The accounts given of it have been fabricated out of whole cloth, chiefly for foreign consumption… Bushido was unknown until a decade or so ago.’12 It may have been a series of religious exercises, accessible to very few. Professor Hall Chamberlain, in an essay The Invention of a New Religion, published in 1912, wrote: ‘Bushido, as an institution or a code of rules, has never existed. Vude, kde se prosadil ideologický stát, vládne korupce mylení, útlak, teror. ![]() “But until the twentieth century there were few references of any kind to bushido. kniha od: Paul Johnson 89 137 hodnocení Pidat do mých knih Koupit Koupit eknihu Kníka vzbudila velky rozruch na Západ nejen proto, e je mistrn napsána, ale hlavn tím, jak nemilosrdn odhaluje pravdu, vem levicovym intelektuálm tak nepohodlnou. ![]()
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