Ur-Fascism the zombie hydra from the age of heros

Ur-Fascism

I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism.

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Here are some indicators that you, or someone you care about,
or someone you might just hate a little bit , may have been captured:

  • cult of tradition
  • appeal to a frustrated middle class
  • rejection of modernism
  • action for action's sake
  • disagreement is treason
  • fear of difference
  • obsession with a plot
  • enemies are portrayed as both too strong and too weak
  • pacifism is trafficking with the enemy
  • contempt for the weak
  • everybody is educated to become a hero
  • machismo via weapons
  • selective populism
  • use of an impoverished vocabulary

From: Anti-Authoritarian Immune System