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Ultra-nationalism
1. How Fascism Works, Prof. Jason Stanley, Yale Univ defines fascism as “ultra-nationalism, be it ethnic,religious, or cultural, with the nation represented in the person of an authoritarian leader who speaks on its behalf.” It's the best working definition..
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1. How Fascism Works, Prof. Jason Stanley, Yale Univ defines fascism as “ultra-nationalism, be it ethnic,religious, or cultural, with the nation represented in the person of an authoritarian leader who speaks on its behalf.” It's the best working definition..
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2.Defining characteristics of fascism is, it extols National identity above all other identities. Fascism is described as nationalism taken too far. N tells, our nation is unique, we have special obligations to it, F tells us, nation is supreme, we have exclusive obligations.
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3.Relentless emphasis on n'lism, frequent jingoistic pronouncements by gov are sure signs, fascism has arrived. As author Yuval Noah Harari points out, fascism is what happens when people ignore complicatedness of life & oversimplify it. Fascism sees things in binaries,~
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4.~good & evil, in-group and out-group, and yes, nationals and anti-nationals.
A Mythical Past.
Fascist narrative is always built on a mythical, golden past, an imagined time of racial cultural purity, which ostensibly came to tragic end either at the hands of invaders,
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A Mythical Past.
Fascist narrative is always built on a mythical, golden past, an imagined time of racial cultural purity, which ostensibly came to tragic end either at the hands of invaders,
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5.~or internal corrupters. F govts invariably come to power on d promise of revive, resurrecting glorious societies of yore (which, incidentally, happened to be hierarchical,patriarchal,where brave men worked hard, fought battles, obedient women stayed home raising next gen)
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6. IMPORTANT
In a speech at the Fascist Congress in Naples in 1922, Benito Mussolini made no bones about the fact that the golden past was a CONCOCTED one. He said: Cont.
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In a speech at the Fascist Congress in Naples in 1922, Benito Mussolini made no bones about the fact that the golden past was a CONCOCTED one. He said: Cont.
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7.~“We have created our myth. The myth is faith, a passion. Not necessary for it to be a reality … Our myth is the nation, our myth is d greatness of the nation! And to this myth, this greatness, which we want to translate into a total reality, we subordinate everything.”
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Just look at the striking similarity in India ruled by the SanghiNazis
