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With unsettling insight and disturbing clarity, How Fascism Works is an essential guidebook to our current national dilemma of democracy vs. Cobb, New Yorker staff writer
No single book is as relevant to the present Rankine, author of Citizen
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS CHOICE A Yale philosopher identifies the ten pillars of fascist politics, and charts their horrifying rise and deep history.
As the child of refugees of World War II Europe and a renowned philosopher and scholar of propaganda, Jason Stanley has a deep understanding of how democratic societies can be vulnerable to fascism: Nations dont have to be fascist to suffer from fascist politics. In fact, fascisms roots have been present in the United States long before Donald Trump.
Alarmed by the pervasive rise of fascist tactics both at home and around the globe, Stanley focuses here on the structures that unite them, laying out and analyzing the ten pillars of fascist politicsthe language and beliefs that separate people into an us and a them. He knits together reflections on history, philosophy, sociology, and critical race theory with stories from contemporary Hungary, Poland, India, Myanmar, and the United States, among other nations. He makes clear the immense danger of underestimating the cumulative power of these tactics, which include
exploiting a mythic version of a nations past
propaganda that twists the language of democratic ideals against themselves
anti-intellectualism directed against universities and experts
law and order politics predicated on the assumption that members of minority groups are criminals
fierce attacks on labor groups and welfare
These mechanisms all build on one another, creating and reinforcing divisions and shaping a society vulnerable to the appeals of authoritarian leadership.
By uncovering disturbing patterns that are as prevalent today as ever, Stanley reveals that the stuff of politicscharged by rhetoric and mythcan quickly become policy and reality. Only by recognizing fascists politics, he argues, may we resist its most harmful effects and return to democratic ideals.
One of the defining books of the Hinton, author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
Author: Jason Stanley
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Published: 09/04/2018
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.40w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780525511830
Language: English
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