Jess’s Reviews > Fascism: A Quick Immersion > Status Update

“…integral to Franco’s plans to wrest power back from democracy by force were the ’detention, torture, forced disappearance and physical elimination of thousands of people for political and ideological motives…” p.130

“Even when the movement did not call itself fascist there was the same militarized ethos, the same cult of the leader, the same appeal to the values of the national community and heroic masculinity, the same newsreel images of ecstatic crowds and marching soldiers, of choreographed rallies and political rituals, accompanied by martial music.”