Umberto Eco’s Record of the 14 Frequent Options of Fascism

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Cre­ative Com­mons picture by Rob Bogaerts, by way of the Nation­al Archives in Hol­land One of many key ques­tions fac­ing each jour­nal­ists and loy­al oppo­si­tions today is how will we keep hon­est as euphemisms and triv­i­al­iza­tions take over the dis­course? Can we use phrases like “fas­cism,” for examination­ple, with fideli­ty to the imply­ing of that phrase in world his­to­ry?…

The Story of Fascism: Rick Steves’ Documentary Helps Us Be taught from the Painful Classes of the Twentieth Century

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From Rick Steves comes a thought-pro­vok­ing doc­u­males­tary that revis­its the rise of fas­cism in Europe, remind­ing us of how charis­mat­ic fig­ures like Ben­i­to Mus­soli­ni and Adolf Hitler got here to pow­er by promis­ing to cre­ate a wager­ter future for his or her frus­trat­ed, eco­nom­i­cal­ly depressed nations–a future that recap­tured the glo­ry of some mythol­o­gized previous….