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Popper showed that fascism and communism had much in common, even though one constituted the extreme right and the other the extreme left, because both relied on the power of the state to repress the freedom of the individual.
For more than seven decades, America has fought – often fitfully, to be sure – to redeem its stated values, taking on bigotry, fascism, and nativism in all their forms.
Thus, the conflict in Ukraine has been framed as a renewed struggle against fascism – and in defense of Russia’s true, anti-Western identity.
As the world concentrates on the war in Iraq, it should keep a watchful eye on India, suggests the novelist Arundhati Roy, because a form of Hindu fascism is growing ever stronger in the subcontinent.
A year after the Godhra massacre and the subsequent anti-Muslim pogroms in Gujarat province, India is again sipping from its poisoned chalice - a flawed democracy laced with religious fascism.
The incipient, creeping fascism that results has been groomed by our "democratic" institutions.
If any institution (including the Supreme Court) exercises unfettered, unaccountable power, the erosion of civil liberties, and the spread of day-to-day injustices, fascism will not be far behind.
Fighting religious fascism means winning back minds and hearts.
Fascism can be defeated only if those outraged by it commit themselves to social justice with an intensity that equals their indignation.
The use of chemical weapons against rebels and civilians in the Middle East is far from a new phenomenon, and Arab socialist and Baathist regimes – with their ideological kinship to Nazism and fascism – have been the most common perpetrators.
Confronted with a world turning wild and the rise of “democratatorships” and demagogues, there are too few leaders working to hold the line against Vladimir Putin’s Russia, fascism in Hungary and Poland, and the political earthquakes triggered by US President Donald Trump.
“Earlier generations faced down fascism and communism not just with missiles and tanks,” Obama preached in his famous campaign speech in Berlin, “but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictions.”
It fought, at great cost, for democracy against fascism in Europe during World War II.
Keen to revive a more militant form of nationalism in their own countries, politicians like Strache, Wilders, and Dewinter see Israel as a kind of model – a model discredited for a long time in Europe, owing to bad memories of fascism and Nazism.
But the view, espoused by Israel’s new right-wing friends, that Israel is on the front line against Islamic fascism, is equally mendacious.
Once people stop believing that Israel is defending the West against fascism, Israel will be blamed for all the violence in the Middle East.
The worst events of the 20th century – World Wars, Fascism, and Communist totalitarianism – were mostly Europe's doing.
The far right, having unleashed Nazism and fascism on the world was in political exile.
Unlike in Hungary, with its Jobbik party, outright fascism has no standing in Poland.
During the run-up to World War II, Winston Churchill, speaking in Parliament, lamented “the years that the locusts hath eaten” – the period during which preparatory action to face the great crisis of his day (the rise of Continental fascism) could have been taken, but was not.
I am old enough to remember both the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, and the ascent and collapse of Nazism, of Fascism, and of Soviet Communism.
The left has, of course, denounced this move as risking fascism.
The Fascism of the AffluentBERLIN – There is an alarming political shift to the right occurring on both sides of the Atlantic, linked to the growing force of openly chauvinist political parties and figures: Donald Trump in the United States, Marine Le Pen in France.
The rise of extreme nationalism and fascism in the 1930s is usually explained in terms of the outcome of World War I, which killed millions of people and filled the heads of millions more with militaristic notions.
In fact, Western Europe’s extreme-right parties’ attraction to Putin’s negative agenda can be understood in relation to another authoritarian anti-ideology: Benito Mussolini’s fascism.
According to Mussolini’s 1932 essay La dottrina del fascismo (The Doctrine of Fascism), written with the philosopher Giovanni Gentile, fascism opposes democracy, socialism, liberalism, and individualism (in addition to Bolshevism, parliamentarianism, Freemasonry, pacifism, and egalitarianism).
But, while Putinism and Italian Fascism share the rare characteristic of rejecting both communist and democratic ideologies, there is an important distinction in their approach to the latter.
And sometimes the killers reach for ideological justifications: building pure Islam, struggling for communism or fascism, or saving the West.
While the 20th century's major conflicts - with fascism, communism, and other "isms" - were primarily ideological, the terrorism of last September 11th posed anew the specter of "culture wars" and "clashes of civilizations."
In fact, the marriage of capitalism and communism, spearheaded by China, has spawned a new political model that represents the first direct challenge to liberal democracy since Fascism: authoritarian capitalism.
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