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A few days ago, I was having a discussion with some friends
and did some brushing up on Fascism.
No,
seriously.
For the past few days, I’ve been haunted by this definition
by Robert Paxton in his book The Anatomy of Fascism:
[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.
Perhaps I’m just being overly simplistic.
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