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>aspects of fascism are not "just politics" Yes they are. You're engaging in binary thinking here. These demagogical patterns that Umberto Eco describes were
by woooooo 3y ago
>aspects of fascism are not "just politics"
Yes they are. You're engaging in binary thinking here. These demagogical patterns that Umberto Eco describes were in The Iliad, they've been tropes as long as we've had writing at least, probably longer.
- mcv 3y agoI'd have to reread the Iliad to check if one of the sides was obsessed with far-fetched plots, describes the other as simultaneously too strong and too weak, argued for a state of permanent warfare. Also, a cult of tradition and a rejection of modernism are not "just politics".
- lovelyviking 3y agoThank you for perfect and deep analysis. One point to add is that ‘multiculturalism’ of russia is designed to destroy and slowly wipe out any traces of any national culture. First russians did when they occupied some territory of Ukraine is to remove and prohibit Ukranian language. It is as similar to Nazi as could be except the name. Their ideology is to slowly remove any nation russia controls and claim them to be russians. Rise children as russians and kill nation if it doesn’t obey. Literally. We can argue if it’s new form of Nazi or not but perhaps it’s much worse.
- woooooo 3y agoOne thing the Nazis did, but not uniquely to them, was paint dehumanizing pictures of their enemies.