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This essay argues that central to understanding the rise of a fascist politics in the United States is the necessity to address the power of language and the intersection of the social media and the public spectacle as central elements in the rise of a formative culture that produces the ideologies and agents necessary for an American-style ...
Benito Mussolini, dictator of Fascist Italy (left), and Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany (right), were fascist leaders.. Fascism (/ ˈ f æ ʃ ɪ z əm / FASH-iz-əm) is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement, [1] [2] [3] characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a ...
Political sociology was conceived as an interdisciplinary sub-field of sociology and politics in the early 1930s [2] throughout the social and political disruptions that took place through the rise of communism, fascism, and World War II. [3]
Fascism rose to power by taking advantage of the political and economic climate of the 1920s and 1930s, particularly the deep polarization of some European societies (such as the Kingdom of Italy and Weimar Germany), which were democracies with elected parliaments dominated by supporters of laissez-faire capitalism and Marxist socialism, whose ...
American President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who led the US into war against the fascist Axis powers, wrote about fascism: The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself.
To Berman, fascists are totalitarian with the goal of not just controlling politics, but reshaping society and controlling the economy. "These were inherently violent movements," Berman said.
In 2018 I queried the claim again, this time by looking at the first 18 months of Trump’s administration and comparing his words and deeds to the Nazis in the 1930s. “You have to be paranoid ...
Throughout Donald Trump’s rise, academics and pundits have debated whether his cult-of-personality politics veers toward a form of fascism. The American fascism debate gets a reboot Skip to main ...