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Had an interesting discussion just now about whether true fascism is possible in a highly polyglot cultures (multiple languages/regional cultures) like India. I’d think a totalizing ideology would fail to properly cohere across cultural translation boundaries.
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does India have some coherent national idea throughout individual identities? Religion is usually good at uniting people across cultures
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Street level thuggery backed (or at least ignored) by government & local police might be enough to normalize a culture of fear & intimidation. Not sure this is fascistic until it affects political & economic outcomes. What binds RSS extremists? Nationalism? Religion? Language?
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It doesn't have to properly cohere. Just set up all the state bureaucracy in your favorite language and punish people who don't adhere to it. Make it their problem to learn your language or else. It's not like the Soviets had to learn a whole bunch of Central Asian languages.
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probably not but same is the case with true liberalism. I do not think even a word exists for "liberalism" in any of the Indian languages that come to mind
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Soviet Union? Maoist China? (Lots of small ethic groups and regions.) → Also interesting how both of them used enforced national language & destruction of regional culture to consolidate state power.
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Possible yes. But more difficult in proportion to the disjointedness of cultural boundary Venn diagram. Inversely proportional to number of shruggers/minimally viable common minority