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Replying to Avatar Mike Brock

I am advancing my own category of what I call the “fascist impulse”, yes.

For me, fascism is better understood as an impulse in people to wield permanent political and economic power, by capitalizing on cynicism of polities, and using cultural control (propaganda) and pseudo-religious mythos to contain the political conservation in a cultural envelope, that leads to extreme depoliticization of the average member of the polity.

I think this more intellectually robust characterization of fascism was always staring political science in the face, if you just came at it from a little category theory, and some analytical moral epistemology.

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plor 1y ago

I see fascism more as the extreme form of statism or technocracy. The idea that collective action by the state is the best way to achieve the "public good" or "general will". This necessitates that anyone opposed to the state is an enemy of all. That is why I disagree with your definition, because it has little to do with fascism in reality.

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