Beneath pseudo-scientific terminology one case recognize a phantasy ev — Norman Cohn, Pursuit Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians Mystical Anarchists Middle Ages
Beneath the pseudo-scientific terminology one can in each case recognize a phantasy of which almost every element is to be found in phantasies which were already current in medieval Europe. The final, decisive battle of the Elect (be they the ��?Aryan race’ or the ��?proletariat’) against the hosts of evil (be they the Jews or the ��?bourgeoisie’); a dispensation on which the Elect are to be most amply compensated for all their sufferings by the joys of total domination or of total community or of both together; a world purified of all evil and in which history is to find its consummation – these ancient imaginings are with us still.
