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'''Neuropa''' is a [[neologism]], first used in English in 1941 by the prominent [[Pan-Africanism|Pan Africanist]] [[W.E.B. DuBois]]. His article "Neuropa: Hitler's New World Order" discussed comparisons between his experiences in Germany in 1892 - 1894 and his trips there in 1928 and 1936. The term did not come into general use in English(contracted; show full)uBois in 1941. He wrote before the United States involvement in the war, but after the occupation of western Europe. In his article, DuBois remarks that there was broader basis of democracy than before the first world war, when society was run for the benefit of the monarchy, the nobility and the rising capitalists in finance and industry. He discusses the [[precarity|insecurity]] of middle class civil servants and clerks, who were "wracked by fear of being levelled down to workers". DuBois focus
ses on the mass education campaigns of the Nazis, which followed those of the [[Bolshevik]]s and Italian [[Fascist]]s. However behind "all this smoke and propaganda" DuBois saw a more significant and older phenomenon, the [[Rationalisation Movement]] which had developed the German economy as a [[planned economy]].

Recently the term resurfaced in English, in the context of discussions within [[€uroMayDay]], an anti-capitalist movement. The discussions concern infiltration by the [[New Right]] in such [[social movement]]s. However, Neuropa, as a combination of 'new' and 'Europe', is a play on words in several European languages, and its use does not necessarily indicate ideological intent, let alone a revival of Nazi plans for Europe.

===References===
[http://www.journalnegroed.org/famousauthors.html "Neuropa: Hitler's New World Order"] by W.E.B. DuBois, ''The Journal of Negro Education'',Vol. 10, 380-386, 1941

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