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How to Make a Fascist
How to Make a Fascist
Chapters:00:00 - Introduction: How to Make a Fascist08:50 - Chapter One: Fertile Soil18:28 - Chapter Two: The Pure of the Earth47:08 - Chapter Three: The Sci...
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How to Make a Fascist
The Trouble With Fascism Analogies
The Trouble With Fascism Analogies
In the interwar decades, many observers of rising fascism failed to understand what was new about this threat. Clinging to the word fascism to define today’s growing reactionary forces risks falling into the same trap.
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The Trouble With Fascism Analogies
Fascism: Who is and isn't a fascist, and how you can tell the difference
Fascism: Who is and isn't a fascist, and how you can tell the difference
If you're going to call someone a fascist, it helps to know a little about fascism. For example, all who seek to take over the state or curtail their adversaries' freedom of speech may not rightly be called "fascists", writes Matthew Sharpe.
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Fascism: Who is and isn't a fascist, and how you can tell the difference
The New F-Word | Episode 1
The New F-Word | Episode 1
The New F-Word | Episode 1 – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSCheck out the rest of the series (and a bunch of other amazing content!) by s...
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The New F-Word | Episode 1
What If It Is Fascism?
What If It Is Fascism?
Discussions of whether Trumpism is fascist often lose sight of the political stakes of the issue. But like Italian and German fascism, MAGA reflects a political system failing to address capitalist crisis.
But to deny that Trumpism is a contemporary form of fascism one must put forward at least one of those plausible definitions and provide evidence of how MAGA fails to fit. This Bessner does not do.
a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood, and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.
I think it’s short a few key elements: class dynamics in place of the weaker sociological notion of “elites”; the role of the charismatic, all-knowing leader; and the destruction, once in power, of the helping parts of the state apparatus while bulking up the repressive apparatus.
For instance, in Italy in the 1920s and Germany in the 1930s there was a polarized, blocked democracy in which neither the traditional center-left nor center-right coalition forces were able to vanquish the other. This led to an inability to decisively address the most important challenges afflicting the society through the usual political mechanisms.
Key to fascism is the blockage, not the particular time- and place-bound issues. Fascism represents a breakthrough solution (in the wrong direction, toward the most reactionary sectors of capital) to resolve fundamental issues around capitalist development. In Italy, fascism was a solution to the modernization of the rural economy; in Germany, a response to the crushing burden of war debt; and here in the United States, the antiquated political structures bequeathed by the founders’ concessions to the slavocracy, and the death grip of fossil fuel capital over our planet’s future.
for advocates of the American fascism thesis, these developments all prove that there’s an unbroken line of fascism stretching back to the nation’s founding.” I don’t know to whom he is ascribing this overreaching position; he doesn’t identify anyone. Scholars who argue for fascist precedents in American history, like the rise of the first KKK during Reconstruction, are pretty careful to avoid sweeping statements of this nature.
Trump and especially his movement — because that’s one of the key ingredients of the phenomenon — qualify. What convinced Paxton to publicly change his mind? The January 2021 insurrection sealed the deal for him; he no longer thought that academic quibbling about labels or reservations based on popular usage outweighed the danger of the reality.
While dismissing “extreme far-right ideology” as too baggy a definition, nowhere does Bessner offer a replacement of his own or someone else’s that he agrees with. Instead, he seemingly views fascism mostly as a misguided analogy for three reasons: its analogs are Italy and Germany; it is a foreign ideology only; and because Trumpism is American born and bred, therefore it can’t be fascism. These arguments are tautological and unconvincing. "Fascism represents a breakthrough solution to resolve fundamental issues around capitalist development."
Because the “structures, processes, discourses and patterns” show us the pathways history can take — not so we can peer into our crystal balls and foretell the precise duplication of past events in the present, but so that we can master the critical capacity to see what the man behind the curtain is attempting to put over on us and stop it from happening.
Throughout the article Bessner sets up one straw man after another and knocks them down. He tells us, “The powers that Trump is deploying, and the laws and theories that he is building his attempt to reshape the US state and society upon, are not fascist. They are American…” This assumption, that “fascism” and “American” are nonoverlapping categories, is one Bessner, at no point, proves or even argues for. To the contrary, my argument is that they combine: American fascism.
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What If It Is Fascism?
14 quotes about fascism that everyone should read
14 quotes about fascism that everyone should read
The neo-nationalism of Brexit and the election of the nativist Donald Trump have rejuvenated far-right politics in a way that's not been seen since the 1930s.To help shed more light on this hateful, hate-mongering political philosophy, here are 14 quotes from academics, thinkers, authors and politicians who lived or studied the horrors of a fascist state.
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14 quotes about fascism that everyone should read
What is FASCISM?
What is FASCISM?
https://www.patreon.com/HorsesPT https://www.instagram.com/horses.ig/ SOURCES: The Anatomy of Fascism, by Robert O. Paxton Fascism, by Stanley G. Payne Fascism, by Roger Griffin A History of Fascism, 1914–1945, by Stanley G. Payne The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, by Gustave Le Bon Music: Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen - Before Daybreak Magnus Ludvigsson - Valse Triste Niçoise Gavin Luke - Late Night Sketches Gavin Luke - Chance Encounter Magnus Ludvigsson - Circus Leaving Town Franz Gordon - Theme for Autumn Franz Gordon - Raincoat Waltz Rikard From - Hidden Beneath
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What is FASCISM?
The 10 tactics of fascism | Jason Stanley | Big Think
The 10 tactics of fascism | Jason Stanley | Big Think
The 10 tactics of fascism, with Jason Stanley Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ►► https://www.youtube.com/c/bigthink Up next ►►"Never Again?" How fascism hijacks democracies over and over https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye4jKSNHhms Fascism is a cult of the leader, who promises national restoration in the face of supposed humiliation by immigrants, leftists, liberals, minorities, homosexuals, women, in the face of what the fascist leader says is a takeover of the country's media, cultural institutions, schools by these forces. Fascist movements typically, though not invariably, rest on an urban/rural divide. The cities are where there's decadence, where the elites congregate, where there's immigrants, and where there's criminality. Each of these individuals alone is not in and of itself fascist, but you have to worry when they're all grouped together, seeing the other as less than. Those moments are the times when societies need to worry about fascism. Read the video transcript: https://bigthink.com/videos/what-is-fascism/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About Jason Stanley: Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. Before coming to Yale in 2013, he was Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University. Stanley is the author of Know How; Languages in Context; Knowledge and Practical Interests, which won the American Philosophical Association book prize; and How Propaganda Works, which won the PROSE Award for Philosophy from the Association of American Publishers. He writes about authoritarianism, propaganda, free speech, mass incarceration, and other topics for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Review, The Guardian, Project Syndicate and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among other publications. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Read more of our stories on fascism: “Never Again?” How fascism hijacks democracies over and over ►► https://bigthink.com/videos/rob-riemen-never-again-how-fascism-hijacks-democracies-over-and-over Fascism and conspiracy theories: The symptoms of broken communication ►► https://bigthink.com/the-present/fascism-and-conspiracy-theories-the-symptoms-of-broken-communication What Fascism Really Is — And What It Isn’t ►► https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/for-your-next-political-argument-what-fascism-really-is ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About Big Think | Smarter Faster™ ► Big Think The leading source of expert-driven, educational content. With thousands of videos, featuring experts ranging from Bill Clinton to Bill Nye, Big Think helps you get smarter, faster by exploring the big ideas and core skills that define knowledge in the 21st century. ► Big Think+ Make your business smarter, faster: https://bigthink.com/plus/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Want more Big Think? ► Daily editorial features: https://bigthink.com/popular/ ► Get the best of Big Think right to your inbox: https://bigthink.com/st/newsletter ► Facebook: https://bigth.ink/facebook ► Instagram: https://bigth.ink/Instagram ► Twitter: https://bigth.ink/twitter
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Fascism’s 'Legal Phase' Has Begun - PopularResistance.Org
Fascism’s 'Legal Phase' Has Begun - PopularResistance.Org
When Republicans blocked the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act on January 19, 2022, they removed the last safety net preventing the U.S.’s plummet toward authoritarianism. As a result, we are at this moment in a state of free-fall, the culmination of a state-level Legislative And Enforcement Landscape that directly mirrors Jim Crow — or as fascism scholar Jason Stanley recently put it, “America is now in fascism’s legal phase.” Although we do have ways of fighting back, the situation is dire. We often hear that the U.S.’s founding documents, courts and institutions make it immune to despotism, but this claim is simply false and erases our country’s troubling history with white supremacy — one the GOP is poised to reinvigorate.
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Fascism’s 'Legal Phase' Has Begun - PopularResistance.Org
'The dictionary definition of fascism': Conservative columnist condemns Donald Trump's MAGA 'cult' - Raw Story
'The dictionary definition of fascism': Conservative columnist condemns Donald Trump's MAGA 'cult' - Raw Story
MAGA Republicans have been attacking Robert Reich as a “coastal elitist” in response to an August 23 tweet in which the liberal economist, UC Berkeley professor and former secretary of labor in the Clinton Administration described far-right Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a “fascist.” Reich’s MAGA crit...
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'The dictionary definition of fascism': Conservative columnist condemns Donald Trump's MAGA 'cult' - Raw Story
Endnote 2: White Fascism
Endnote 2: White Fascism
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Endnote 2: White Fascism