A common reactions I get when I tell people I study fascism is, "oh, do you study far-left authoritarianism too ACCUSATORY GLARE" There's a lot to unpack there, but let's start here: "Oh, you study cancer? Do you study heart disease too, or are you just a big hypocrite?"
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That's because communism is an actual robust political theory. Maybe you don't like that theory but holy shit is it intellectual. Lots of writing on it. Detailed. Debate rages on within the wider label of communist/socialist. Different schools of thought, exhaustively explored
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Fascism is fundamentally different. There is no ideology. There is no consistent thought. There is no significant body of work Fascism does not believe in truth or falsehood. It believes in whatever brings it to power and allows the in-group to triumph
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It's a sort of intellectual virus that erodes the adherent's ability to think and to perceive the world And I think that's fascinating
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Final thought: of "I study fascism" feels like a personal attack, it might be worth meditating on why that's the case
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I think it’s fair to say you don’t have to study the authoritarian left just because you study the authoritarian right. I don’t think it’s fair to say communism has been implemented in Denmark or that it can be implemented without abject authoritarianism.
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For sure Denmark doesn't have full communism but also its government is heavily informed by socialist ideas. And so is ours, to a lesser extent
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