From a review by Christopher Hitchens of Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies by Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit:
The authors demonstrate that there is a long history of anti-Western paranoia in the intellectual tradition of the "East," but that much of this is rooted in non-Muslim and non-Oriental thinking. Indeed, insofar as the comparison with fascism can be made, it can be derived from some of the very origins and authors that inspired fascism itself. In many areas of German, Russian and French culture, one finds the same hatred of "decadence," the same cultish worship of the pitiless hero, the same fascination with the infallible "leader," the same fear of a mechanical civilization as opposed to the "organic" society based on tradition and allegiance.
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Occidentalism repays study because it reminds us of how much the suicide of our own society has been advocated from within its own citadel, and of how reactionary and counter-humanistic such advocacy has been. The ideas of liberal pluralism are newer in "the West" than we suppose, and could in fact use some ruthless warriors of their own.