Status Updates From Dai fascismi ai populismi. ...

Populism is not a simple external response to elites and bureaucracies but is rather a criticism of democracy from within.

If more generally, dictatorship was rooted in a trinitarian notion of popular sovereignty, according to which the leader personally embodied the nation and the people—or as the fascists put it, one man, one people, one nation—corporatism provided a theory for regulating conflict in capitalism and under the supreme arbitration of the leader.

Fascists wanted to replace what they saw as mechanistic, repetitive, and involuntary modernity with a “qualified” modernity in which the fascist could tame matter and the economy.

Violence defined fascism’s conceptual representations, especially with respect to fascist genocidal notions of the abject and sacrifice.

“Umberto Eco noted, in both fascism and ‘Internet populism…citizens do not act; they are only called on to play the role of the People’.

“Sternhall reminded Israelis, ‘Democracy requires acceptance of the majority decision, but it does not mandate recognition of the rightness or the moral legitimacy of the majority”

Just some light new year’s eve reading