[Peace-discuss] On the bookshelf

[Szoke, Ron]

Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them  (Random House, 2018, 218 pages).

The initial move in nascent fascism is usually a matter of identifying some group as troublemakers & the “root cause” of all our problems.  Current favorites  include: immigrants, refugees, aliens, criminals, liberals, neoliberals, Deep State, Jews, anti-Semites, Republicans, Democrats, warmongers, War Party, racists, white males, pro-choice murderers, etc.

Also see his earlier book:
How Propaganda Works  (Princeton U.P., 2015, 353 pages).



> Stanley is a professor of philosophy at Yale.

And compare:

David Neiwert, The Eliminationists : How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right (PoliPoint Press, 2009, 281 pp.)   Esp. chapters 6 & 7, “Understanding Fascism” &  “Proto-Fascism, Para-Fascism, and the Real Thing,” pp. 103—147.

Bertram Gross, Friendly Fascism : The New Face of Power in America  (M. Evans & Co., 1980, 410 pages).
Note:  Published 38 years ago and an astonishing anticipation of much that has happened since.  Mentions Sinclair Lewis’s novel It Can’ t Happen Here (1935).
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