EPISODE 110 | How to Be a Fascist

People use the term "Fascist" a lot these days, but do they really know what that means? Fascism is a very specific combination of ideas and goals that occurred within very clear historical and philosophical contexts.

This is a look at where Fascism came from, Mussolini's rise to power, and variations and offshoots of the first Fascist ideologies. And while not everyone you don't like is a "Fascist", there are some actual fascists out there, and they are not being all that quiet.

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SECTIONS

  1. 02:33 - The Future Refusing to Be Born - General characteristics of Fascism
  2. 10:52 - The Measles of Mankind - Mussolini encounters the Völkisch Movement, Carlism, Integralism, Adapted Syndicalism, Sorelianism and Maurassism; rises high in the Revolutionary Socialist movement, is kicked out of the movement, starts the Fascists
  3. 19:07 - How to Get There from Here - Fascism kicks off in 1919, the Fiume Republic of Gabriele D’Annunzio, the 1921 Fascist platform, disorder and fighting in Italy, Mussolini as PM in October 1922
  4. 25:33 - Mussolini makes changes 1923-1925, the Fascist takeover is completed Nov. 1925-Nov. 1926
  5. 30:21 - We Ain't There. Yet. - Hitler was inspired, as were Franco and Salazar; the US has never seen similar conditions
  6. 33:41 - A Smörgåsbord of BS - Corporatism, neo-Corporatism and Tripartism; Ultranationalism, Strasserism, Falangism
  7. 39:13 - Neo-Fascism, Neo-Nazism, Esoteric Nazism - Savitri Devi, Robert Charroux, Miguel Serrano and Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
  8. 43:03 - Clerical Fascism, British Israelism, Christian Identity
  9. 46:01 - White Nationalism, White Separatism, Apartheid
  10. 47:21 - The British National Front, Third Position, diagonalism and the "cross-front", Black Nationalism, Hutu Power
  11. 50:47 - National-Anarchism
  12. 52:44 - To Infinity and Beyond! - Islamofascism, Saddam Hussein's spin on Ba'athism, Muammar al-Gaddafi used leftwing rhetoric for rightwing aims
  13. 53:58 - The current threat of Accelerationism
  14. 56:43 - Active Fascist political parties today, what we can do
  15. Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info

  • RationalWiki page on Fascism
  • Fascism definition on Britannica
  • Is This Fascism? on Slate
  • What is fascism? on LiveScience
  • Mussolini's 10 Pillars of Fascism
  • How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley
  • The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton
  • Introducing Fascism: A Graphic Guide by Litza Jansz and Stuart Hood
  • GLEICHSCHALTUNG: COORDINATING THE NAZI STATE
  • Mussolini: A study in power by Ivone Kirkpatrick
  • Mussolini and Italian Fascism by Hamish MacDonald
  • World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia edited by Cyprian Blamires
  • A History of Fascism, 1914–1945 by Stanley G. Payne
  • Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
  • The Problem of Fascism in Everyday Life paper by G. V. Loewen
  • Ur-Fascism essay by Umberto Eco
  • Fascism: Past, Present, Future by Walter Laqueur
  • Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright
  • The Problem With Using Fascist as a Political Insult
  • The overuse and abuse of ‘fascism’
  • Column: The use and misuse of the word ‘fascism’
  • On The Use And Abuse Of The Term “Fascism” To Describe Current Events
  • Fascism: Who is and isn't a fascist, and how you can tell the difference
  • It’s Time to Use the F-word: An Anti-fascist Approach to Trump and Franco
  • Is Donald Trump a Fascist?
  • On American Fascism: The Fascist Rhetoric of Donald Trump and The Right Wing-Media paper by Aaron Huff
  • How fascist is Donald Trump? -- a 2016 assessment revisited
  • Eco-fascism: justifications of terrorist violence in the Christchurch mosque shooting and the El Paso shooting
  • A CHORUS OF VIOLENCE: JACK DONOVAN AND THE ORGANIZING POWER OF MALE SUPREMACY
  • The Strange, Strange Story of the Gay Fascists
  • Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win by Clara Zetkin
  • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
  • How Dictatorships Work: Power, Personalization, and Collapse by Barbara Geddes, Joseph Wright and Erica Frantz
  • A Brief History of Fascist Lies by Federico Finchelstein
  • Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum
  • How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt

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