Quotes from Kevin Passmore

Fascism, as Ortega y Gasset says, is always 'A and not A'.

In a striking metaphor, Michael Burleigh suggests that the Nazis sought to rebuild German society as engineers rebuild a bridge. They could not demolish it, since that would disrupt traffic, and therefore they replaced each individual part, so that passengers wouldn't notice.

Yet how can we make sense of an ideology that appeals to skinheads and intellectuals; denounces the bourgeoisie while forming alliances with conservatives; adopts a macho style yet attracts many women; calls for a return to tradition and is fascinated by technology; idealizes the people and is contemptuous of mass society; and preaches violence in the name of order? Fascism, as Ortega y Gasset says, is always 'A and not A'.

Historic fascists generally argued that women's primary function was domestic and reproductive. National-populists

The availability of workers to the far right may owe something to the fact that from the 1990s many socialist parties embraced the neo?conservative agenda.

Racism is a prejudice erected into a system.

Far?right movements promise to respect the advances made by women but they attack feminists, and they advocate policies that would actually remove many gains.

A proper scholarly method is intrinsically antifascist, in that it treats sceptically what fascists regard as beyond criticism.

Anyway, the question of whether or not the modern far right's stance is 'fascist' has no bearing on the moral acceptability of its proposals. For instance, would the expulsion of non?whites from a country be more acceptable if it was the work of a non?fascist government?