"Behemoth" As The Fascist Propaganda

Franz Neumann was a famous jurist and political scholar who studied fascism during World War II.He was also one of the representatives of the Frankfurt School's early critical theory.His critical research on fascism caused widespread concern and influence in society at that time.The implementation of the US policy toward West Germany.All along,scholars at home and abroad have paid attention to Neumann's jurisprudence,political science and propaganda thought from the perspective of law and political science,but rarely systematically studied Neumann's theory of communication criticism from the perspective of communication.This article is mainly based on Neumann's representative work "The Behemoth" in the period of the Social Institute,to explore Neumann's critical theory of communication,and the relationship between Neumann and the Frankfurt School.Neumann's critical thought of communication contains a critique of the ideology propaganda of fascism,which is mainly reflected in the specific analysis of the ideology behind the political concepts such as "the totalitarian state","anti-Semitism" and "Great German Empire" of fascism.Morphological function;reveals the ideology propaganda laws and propaganda techniques of fascism,such as violent propaganda and cultural control.In addition,Neumann's fascist critical research has similarities with Horkheimer,Adorno,Marcuse and others on totalitarianism,except that Neumann's research focuses more on ideological propaganda.Features and skills.Although Neumann died unfortunately in1954,Neumann's critical theory has been concerned by different disciplines.His ideology propaganda theory on fascism has important reference for the study of totalitarian propaganda.