Seward Bishop Collins (April 22, 1899 – December 8, 1952) was an American New York socialite and publisher. By the end of the 1920s, he was a self-described "fascist".
Saturday, 17 December 2011
Biography
Collins accelerating from Princeton University and entered Fresh York's arcane activity in 1926, as a bon vivant. He knew abounding arcane giants of his day, had an activity with Dorothy Parker, and accumulated a ample accumulating of erotica. His bookstore, The American Review Bookshop, was at 231 West 58th Street in Fresh York City. It agitated abounding journals, broadsheets and newsletters that accurate nationalist and absolutist causes in Europe and Asia.
In 1936, he affiliated Dorothea Brande. A man of absolute wealth, Collins appear two arcane journals: The Bookman (1927–1933) and The American Review (1933–1937).
Collins was beguiled with the writings of arresting humanists of his day, including Paul Elmer More and Irving Babbitt. Politically, he confused from left-liberalism in the aboriginal 1920s and eventually abroad from More's and Babbitt's Humanism to what he alleged "fascism" by the end of the decade. In The American Review, he approved to advance an American anatomy of absolutism and accepted Italian absolutist Benito Mussolini and German absolutist Adolf Hitler in an commodity blue-blooded "Monarch as Alternative," which appeared in the aboriginal affair in 1933. In that essay, Collins attacked both commercialism and communism and heralded the "New Monarch," who would best the accepted acceptable over and adjoin the chicane of capitalists and communists. His acclaim of Hitler was ashore in his acceptance that Hitler's acceleration to ability that year heralded the end of the antipathetic threat, as is illustrated by this excerpt:
One would accumulate from the cool abridgement of admeasurement of our press—not to say its gullibility and sensationalism—that the best important aspect of the German anarchy was the hardships suffered by Jews beneath the fresh regime. Even if the cool atrociousness belief were all true, the actuality would be about negligible beside an accident that shouts aloud in animosity of the journalistic silence: the achievement of Hitler signifies the end of the Antipathetic threat, forever. Wherever Communism grows able abundant to accomplish a Antipathetic anarchy a danger, it will be ashamed by a Absolutist revolution.
In 1936, he affiliated Dorothea Brande. A man of absolute wealth, Collins appear two arcane journals: The Bookman (1927–1933) and The American Review (1933–1937).
Collins was beguiled with the writings of arresting humanists of his day, including Paul Elmer More and Irving Babbitt. Politically, he confused from left-liberalism in the aboriginal 1920s and eventually abroad from More's and Babbitt's Humanism to what he alleged "fascism" by the end of the decade. In The American Review, he approved to advance an American anatomy of absolutism and accepted Italian absolutist Benito Mussolini and German absolutist Adolf Hitler in an commodity blue-blooded "Monarch as Alternative," which appeared in the aboriginal affair in 1933. In that essay, Collins attacked both commercialism and communism and heralded the "New Monarch," who would best the accepted acceptable over and adjoin the chicane of capitalists and communists. His acclaim of Hitler was ashore in his acceptance that Hitler's acceleration to ability that year heralded the end of the antipathetic threat, as is illustrated by this excerpt:
One would accumulate from the cool abridgement of admeasurement of our press—not to say its gullibility and sensationalism—that the best important aspect of the German anarchy was the hardships suffered by Jews beneath the fresh regime. Even if the cool atrociousness belief were all true, the actuality would be about negligible beside an accident that shouts aloud in animosity of the journalistic silence: the achievement of Hitler signifies the end of the Antipathetic threat, forever. Wherever Communism grows able abundant to accomplish a Antipathetic anarchy a danger, it will be ashamed by a Absolutist revolution.
Research
In a 1936 account that he accustomed to Grace Lumpkin in the pro-communist journal FIGHT adjoin War and Fascism, Collins stated: "I am a fascist. I adore Hitler and Mussolini actual much. They accept done abundant things for their countries." When Lumpkin objected to Hitler's animality of the Jews, Collins replied: "It is not persecution. The Jews accomplish trouble. It is all-important to choose them."
The American Review ran accessories by abounding arch arcane critics of the day, including the Southern Agrarians, who, admitting hardly fascists, accustomed a Northern administrator for their anti-modern essays. Several of them came to affliction (and renounce) their accord with Collins, however, afterwards his political angle became more good known. One of them, Allen Tate, wrote a acknowledgment of absolutism for the advanced The New Republic. Nevertheless, Tate remained in acquaintance with Collins and connected to broadcast in The American Review until its demise, in 1937.
In accession to featuring essays by abounding critics of modernity, The American Review additionally became the a agent for overextension the account associated with English Distributism, the supporters of which included G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc.
Collins and his wife, a airy medium, were actively complex with analytic phenomena during the 1930s. Their amphitheater of accompany included W.H. Salter, Theodore Besterman and Mrs. Henry Sidgwick, all of whom were affiliated with the Society for Psychical Research in London.
Today Collins is remembered primarily as a absolutist editor and administrator who abhorred both commercialism and communism and counted abounding pre-War writers as his accompany or colleagues. His article "Monarch as Alternative," mentioned above, appears in Conservatism in America Since 1930, a accumulating of essays by bourgeois writers appear by New York University Press in 2003.
The American Review ran accessories by abounding arch arcane critics of the day, including the Southern Agrarians, who, admitting hardly fascists, accustomed a Northern administrator for their anti-modern essays. Several of them came to affliction (and renounce) their accord with Collins, however, afterwards his political angle became more good known. One of them, Allen Tate, wrote a acknowledgment of absolutism for the advanced The New Republic. Nevertheless, Tate remained in acquaintance with Collins and connected to broadcast in The American Review until its demise, in 1937.
In accession to featuring essays by abounding critics of modernity, The American Review additionally became the a agent for overextension the account associated with English Distributism, the supporters of which included G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc.
Collins and his wife, a airy medium, were actively complex with analytic phenomena during the 1930s. Their amphitheater of accompany included W.H. Salter, Theodore Besterman and Mrs. Henry Sidgwick, all of whom were affiliated with the Society for Psychical Research in London.
Today Collins is remembered primarily as a absolutist editor and administrator who abhorred both commercialism and communism and counted abounding pre-War writers as his accompany or colleagues. His article "Monarch as Alternative," mentioned above, appears in Conservatism in America Since 1930, a accumulating of essays by bourgeois writers appear by New York University Press in 2003.
Theory
A 2005 adventures of Collins, And Again They Loved Him: Seward Collins & the Chimera of an American Fascism, argues that he was never a absolute "fascist." This book, which is based on Collins' absolute affidavit and belletrist (as able-bodied as his FBI file), argues that Collins was in actuality a Distributist, i.e., a addict of G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, who inexplicably alleged Agrarianism "fascism." Indeed, the book concludes that Collins again became a affectionate of dupe afterwards 1941 back abounding added associates of the American amusing and bookish elites were acquisitive to abstract absorption from their own flirtations with absolutism in the 1920s and 1930s. Yet his acclaim of Hitler and Mussolini, acclaimed above, testifies to his beliefs, at atomic during the 1930s.
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