myrmepropagandist on Nostr: There is a lot of anxiety and energy put in to the project of defining fascism. It ...
There is a lot of anxiety and energy put in to the project of defining fascism. It makes sense. Fascism is (nearly) universally understood to be negative, dangerous, intoxicating. Fascism is the bath salts of political philosophy. A drug terrifying not just because of its degrading effects on the body, but the horror of enacting out atrocities -- but being unable to recognize them as atrocities until sober.
A precise, sorting definition of fascism would be a powerful prophylactic. 1/
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