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Jun 15, 2023Liked by Jack Cluth

"Ideological purity, after all, is for losers and Liberals." -- a point that Robert O. Paxton makes in "The Anatomy of Fascism," (terrific book, by the way) is that fascism has no ideology, nor any sort of principled program. When situations changed, both the Italian and German fascists happily jettisoned supposedly "inviable" planks in their political "platform". That's because fascism isn't about ideas, it is about achieving absolute, hegemonic domination.

"Fascism is Not an Idea to Be Debated, It’s a Set of Actions to Fight"

-- Aleksandar Hemon,

https://lithub.com/fascism-is-not-an-idea-to-be-debated-its-a-set-of-actions-to-fight/

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When all is said and done, fascism is about power. Period.

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