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"The language and symbols of an authentic American fascism would have little to do with the original European models... No swastikas in an American fascism, but Stars and Stripes and Christian crosses.... Around such reassuring language and symbols and in the event of some redoubtable setback to national prestige, Americans might support an enterprise of forcible national regeneration, unification, and purification."
— Sep 17, 2025 02:46AM
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Jo Eva
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"While a new fascism would necessarily diabolize some enemy, both internal and external, the enemy would not necessarily by Jews. An authentically popular American fascism would be pious, antiblack and, since September 11, 2001, anti-Islamic as well... The British moralist George Orwell noted in the 1930s that an authentic British fascism would come reassuringly clad in sober English dress."
— Aug 26, 2025 05:32PM
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"Today it is quite clear that businessmen [in fascist regimes] often objected to specific aspects of fascist economic policies, sometimes with success. But fascist economic policy responded to political priorities, and not to economic rationale. Both Mussolini and Hitler tended to think that economics was amenable to a ruler's will."
— Apr 25, 2025 11:30PM
Jo Eva
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"Fascist propagandists wanted us to see the leader alone on his pinnacle, and they had remarkable success...
No dictator rules by himself. He must obtain the cooperation, or at least the acquiescence, of the decisive agencies of rule- the military, the police, the judiciary, senior civil servants - and of powerul social and economic forces...
Fascism [depends on] conservative elites to open the gates."
— Apr 15, 2025 06:01PM
No dictator rules by himself. He must obtain the cooperation, or at least the acquiescence, of the decisive agencies of rule- the military, the police, the judiciary, senior civil servants - and of powerul social and economic forces...
Fascism [depends on] conservative elites to open the gates."
