and considers whether the same process could threaten the United States of America, the self-styled “land of the free.” Drawing on historical and contemporary examples, these book explore what fascism means and how it takes root.
On the day itself, 180 police officers were wounded. One lost an eye. Another was stabbed with a metal fence stake. Protesters chanted such peaceful slogans as ‘Hang Mike Pence’; ‘Kill the traitors’; ‘Hang the traitors’; ‘Get those fucking cocksucking commies out’; ‘Victory or ...
Hitler and Mussolini censored the press and issued sophisticated propaganda. They played up racist fears and manipulated not just their active supporters but everyday citizens. Today, the term fascism has taken on a looser political definition and is often evoked as a catch-all for...
What are other historical examples of fascism? Hitler and Mussolini are its two biggest names, but it gets murkier from there. Does military dictator Augusto Pinochet’s 17-year, ironfisted rule in Chile qualify? What about Indonesian strongman Suharto or Spain’s Francisco Franco? Were the ...
Here at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog, I can’t help but reflect on how less than three full years ago when this blog post used America’s increasingly totalitarian Big Tech fascists as examples for dystopian literature, it seemed like the dire possibilities explored might come withi...
“A vital read . . . The book provides a fascinating breakdown of the fascist ideology, nimbly interweaving examples from Germany, Italy and Hungary, from Rwanda and Myanmar to Serbia and, yes, the US. As he proceeds through his framework of the broadest features of his subject, Stanley in...
There is anowner class: The means of production (capital) are owned only by the few people (capitalists) who can pay for them. Modern means of production are things like machines, factories and land. There is aworking class: The people (laborers) who use capital to produce goods and have...
Nazism and Stalinism are the two ideologies most often considered to be totalitarian, and Hitler and Stalin are the two people most often given as examples of totalitarian leaders. They both held absolute power in their countries and had personality cults built around them. They both used similar...
Fascism has been criticized for being ideologically dishonest. Major examples of ideological dishonesty have been identified in Italian fascism’s changing relationship with German Nazism.[264]Fascist Italy’s official foreign policy positions were known to commonly utilize rhetorical ideological hyperbole to...
modern period, Bolívar was the second. Many others would follow these men’s examples, including, most prominently, Napoleon’s own nephew Louis-Napoleon. In an 1839 volume entitledNapoleonic Ideas, the younger Bonaparte offered his own concise summary of Caesarism: ‘The nature of democracy is...