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Quotes About Fascism

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'.
~ Kevin Passmore
Historic fascists generally argued that women's primary function was domestic and reproductive. National-populists
~ Kevin Passmore
Enzo Traverso distingue cuatro conceptos confundidos en el debate político actual: populismo, fascismo, neofascismo y posfascismo, reservando el último para caracterizar a las derechas extremas del siglo XXI.
~ Carlos Illades
For example, I've talked about the lower middle class as the backbone of fascism in the future. I think this may happen. The party members of the Nazi Party in Germany were consistently lower middle class. I think that the right-wing movements in this country are pretty generally in this group.
~ Carroll Quigley
Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution.
~ George L. Jackson
the definition of fascism is: a police state wherein the political ascendancy is tied into and protects the interests of the upper class—characterized by militarism, racism, and imperialism),
~ George L. Jackson
The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching their copies of Atlas Shrugged, they flail around, accusing those who would impede them of communism, fascism, religiosity, misanthropy, but knowing at heart that these restrictions are driven by something far more repulsive to the unrestrained man: the decencies we owe to other human beings.
~ George Monbiot
Communism, Marxism, Socialism, Fascism." Roarke jerked his shoulders. "Democracy, republic, monarchy. One is the same as the other to them. It's power, it's glory. It's revolution for the sake of it. Politics, religion, for some it remains their own narrow and personal view." "Conquer and rule?" Eve wondered.
~ J.D. Robb
Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
I just became what I call an 'anti-fascist novelist.' There is no word that covers both the fascists and the Communists, which mean different things to people, but of course they're the same: they're tyranny states.
~ Alan Furst
We must speak out against racism and fascism in any form, at any scale, any time they rear their ugly head.
~ Phil Scott
When you mix fashion and politics, you get fascism. Politics have fashion, and it's bad; fashion has politics, that are ugly.
~ Nate Lowman
Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend.
~ George Carlin
War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Just as communism always begins with an appeal to "humanity" and equality" and ends with inhuman despotism, so does fascism always begin with an appeal to "nationalism" and "individualism," and ends with a military collectivism far worse than the disease it purports to cure.
~ Sydney J. Harris
Crematorium Esperanto is a language we can all learn. Dehumanization, as Borowski shows us, is a human process. The meaning of death is that we organize our actions around it. Fascism is not limited to a certain time and place; it is a certain orientation of life toward death. Extermination does not sanctify a victim or dignify a cause. It only instructs us about human possibility.
~ Tadeusz Borowski
I so totally refuse to 'make an effort to understand' the people who have become vectors for a fascist spectacular politics.
~ Timothy Morton
If the social media platforms don't take the gatekeeping seriously they will kill the public sphere. If we don't get this right in 2020 you can open a decade or longer of a descent into fascism. And it will be global because platforms are global.
~ Maria Ressa
We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government.
~ Buenaventura Durruti
The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state.
~ Unknown
Fascism is very much a mob movement.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
When the fascists are through with the Muslims and Christians, they will turn on the others.
~ Prashant Bhushan
Workers are as easily mobilized around antidemocratic ideologies such as hyper-nationalism, fascism, and racism. If they lack consciousness, they can become a dark force in the body politic, as history has shown and as we see at Trump rallies and with the proliferation of hate crimes.
~ Chris Hedges
That is why one of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups. In our time, when the old "proletarians" are becoming petty bourgeois (and the lumpen are largely excluded from the political scene), the fascism of tomorrow will find its audience in this new majority.
~ Chris Hedges