May 08, 2024

How to Be a Fascist

59 minutes

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

02:33 - The Future Refusing to Be Born - General characteristics of Fascism

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

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

25:33 - Mussolini makes changes 1923-1925, the Fascist takeover is completed Nov. 1925-Nov. 1926

30:21 - We Ain't There. Yet. - Hitler was inspired, as were Franco and Salazar; the US has never seen similar conditions

33:41 - A Smörgåsbord of BS - Corporatism, neo-Corporatism and Tripartism; Ultranationalism, Strasserism, Falangism

39:13 - Neo-Fascism, Neo-Nazism, Esoteric Nazism - Savitri Devi, Robert Charroux, Miguel Serrano and Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke

43:03 - Clerical Fascism, British Israelism, Christian Identity

46:01 - White Nationalism, White Separatism, Apartheid

47:21 - The British National Front, Third Position, diagonalism and the "cross-front", Black Nationalism, Hutu Power

50:47 - National-Anarchism

52:44 - To Infinity and Beyond! - Islamofascism, Saddam Hussein's spin on Ba'athism, Muammar al-Gaddafi used leftwing rhetoric for rightwing aims

53:58 - The current threat of Accelerationism

56:43 - Active Fascist political parties today, what we can do

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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