Seward Bishop Collins (April 22, 1899 – December 8, 1952) was an American New York socialite and publisher. Events 1500 - Portuguese Navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral becomes the first European to sight Brazil. Year 1899 ( MDCCCXCIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1609 - Biblioteca Ambrosiana opens its reading room the second public library of Europe. Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view By the end of the 1920s, he was a self-described "fascist". Fascism is a totalitarian nationalist and corporatist ideology
Collins graduated from Princeton University and entered New York's literary life in 1926, as a bon vivant. Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He knew many literary giants of his day, had an affair with Dorothy Parker, and amassed a large collection of erotica. Dorothy Parker (August 22 1893&ndashJune 7 1967 was an American writer and poet best known for her caustic Wit, wisecracks and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles Erotica (from the Greek Eros —"desire" or "curiosa" works of art including literature, photography film sculpture His bookstore, The American Review Bookshop, was at 231 West 58th Street in New York City. The City of New York It carried many journals, broadsheets and newsletters that supported nationalist and fascist causes in Europe and Asia. The term nationalism can refer to an Ideology, a sentiment, a form of Culture, or a Social movement that focuses on the Nation Fascism is a totalitarian nationalist and corporatist ideology
In 1936, he married Dorothea Brande. Dorothea Brande (1893-1948 was a well respected writer and editor in New York A man of independent wealth, Collins published two literary journals: The Bookman (1927 - 1933) and The American Review (1933 - 1937). The Bookman was a book review established in 1895 owned by the George H The American Review has served as the title of three distinct Magazines 19th century See also American Review A Whig Journal
Collins was infatuated with the writings of prominent humanists of his day, including Paul Elmer More and Irving Babbitt. Humanism is a broad category of ethical philosophies that affirm the dignity and worth of all people based on the ability to determine right and wrong by appealing to universal Paul Elmer More ( December 12, 1864 &ndash March 9, 1937) was an American Journalist, critic Essayist and Irving Babbitt ( August 2, 1865 &ndash July 15, 1933) was an American academic and literary critic, noted for his founding Politically, he moved from left-liberalism in the early 1920s and eventually away from More's and Babbitt's Humanism to what he called "fascism" by the end of the decade. Humanism is a broad category of ethical philosophies that affirm the dignity and worth of all people based on the ability to determine right and wrong by appealing to universal In the American Review, he sought to develop an American form of fascism and praised Italian dicator Benito Mussolini and German dictator Adolf Hitler in an article titled "Monarch as Alternative," which appeared in the first issue in 1933. Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! Please understand that this article is frequently vandalized and vandalism is reverted immediately Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In that essay, Collins attacked both capitalism and communism and heralded the "New Monarch," who would champion the common good over and against the machinations of capitalists and communists. Capitalism is the Economic system in which the Means of production are owned by private Persons and operated for Profit and where Communism is a Socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless Society based His praise of Hitler was grounded in his belief that Hitler's rise to power that year heralded the end of the communist threat, as is illustrated by this excerpt:
- "One would gather from the fantastic lack of proportion of our press -- not to say its gullibility and sensationalism -- that the most important aspect of the German revolution was the hardships suffered by Jews under the new regime. Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the common English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ Even if the absurd atrocity stories were all true, the fact would be almost negligible beside an event that shouts aloud in spite of the journalistic silence: the victory of Hitler signifies the end of the Communist threat, forever. Wherever Communism grows strong enough to make a Communist revolution a danger, it will be crushed by a Fascist revolution. "
In a 1936 interview that he granted to Grace Lumpkin in the pro-communist periodical FIGHT against War and Fascism, Collins stated: "I am a fascist. Grace Lumpkin (1892–1980 is best remembered as an author in the tradition of Proletarian literature who eventually became an ardent Anti-communist. FIGHT Against War and Fascism was an anti-fascist Broadsheet published in the United States by the American League Against War and Fascism I admire Hitler and Mussolini very much. They have done great things for their countries. " When Lumpkin objected to Hitler's persecution of the Jews, Collins replied: "It is not persecution. The Jews make trouble. It is necessary to segregate them. "
The American Review ran articles by many leading literary critics of the day, including the Southern Agrarians, who, though hardly fascists, accepted a Northern publisher for their anti-modern essays. The Southern Agrarians (also known as the Vanderbilt Agrarians or Nashville Agrarians) were a group of twelve American writers and poets with roots in the Several of them came to regret (and renounce) their relationship with Collins, however, after his extreme political views became better known. One of them, Allen Tate, wrote a rebuttal of fascism for the liberal New Republic. John Orley Allen Tate ( November 19, 1899 - February 9, 1979) was an American Poet, essayist and social commentator and The New Republic ( TNR) is an American Magazine of politics and the arts Nevertheless, Tate remained in contact with Collins and continued to publish in The American Review until its demise, in 1937.
In addition to featuring essays by many critics of modernity, The American Review also became the a vehicle for spreading the ideas associated with English Distributism, the supporters of which included G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc. Modernity is a term that refers to the Modern era. It is distinct from Modernism, and in different contexts refers to cultural and intellectual movements of the Distributism, also known as distributionism and distributivism, is a third-way economic philosophy formulated by such Roman Catholic Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936 was an influential English writer of the early 20th century Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (27 July 1870 &ndash 16 July 1953 was a French -born Writer who became a Naturalised British subject
Collins and his wife, who claimed to be a spiritual medium, were actively involved with psychic phenomena during the 1930s. Mediumship is a practice in religious beliefs such as Spiritualism, Spiritism, Espiritismo, Candomblé, Louisiana Voodoo, and Parapsychology is a discipline that seeks to demonstrate the existence and causes of Psychic abilities and life after death using the Scientific method Their circle of friends included W. H. Salter, Theodore Besterman and Mrs. Henry Sidgwick, all of whom were affiliated with the Society for Psychical Research in London. The Society for Psychical Research ( SPR) is a Non-profit organization which started in the United Kingdom and was later imitated in other countries
Today Collins is remembered primarily as a fascist editor and publisher who detested both capitalism and communism and counted many pre-War writers as his friends or colleagues. His essay "Monarch as Alternative," mentioned above, appears in Conservatism in America Since 1930, a collection of essays by conservative writers published by New York University Press in 2003. Conservatism in the United States includes a variety of political ideologies including Fiscal conservatism, Supply-side economics, Social conservatism
A 2005 biography of Collins, And Then They Loved Him: Seward Collins & the Chimera of an American Fascism, argues that he was never a real "fascist. " This book, which is based on Collins’ actual papers and letters (as well as his FBI file), argues that Collins was in fact a Distributist, i. Distributism, also known as distributionism and distributivism, is a third-way economic philosophy formulated by such Roman Catholic e. , a follower of G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, who inexplicably called Agrarianism "fascism. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936 was an influential English writer of the early 20th century Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (27 July 1870 &ndash 16 July 1953 was a French -born Writer who became a Naturalised British subject Agrarianism is a social and Political philosophy which stresses the viewpoint that the cultivation of plants or Farming leads to a fuller and happier life " Indeed, the book concludes that Collins then became a kind of scapegoat after 1941 when many other members of the American social and intellectual elites were eager to distract attention from their own flirtations with fascism in the 1920s and 1930s. Yet his praise of Hitler and Mussolini, noted above, testifies to his beliefs, at least during the 1930s.
External links
- And Then They Loved Him: Seward Collins & the Chimera of an American Fascism, Collins biography by Michael Jay Tucker
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