Quote Origin: Fascist Movement – To Fascinate Fools and Muzzle the Intelligent – Quote Investigator®
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Quote Origin: Fascist Movement – To Fascinate Fools and Muzzle the Intelligent – Quote Investigator®
Fascism as its own ideal-type can be understood as a synthesis between the Jock-Douche and the Creep-Loser: a cult of sheer physical of strength and action wedded to a wounded and brooding consciousness of impotence and humiliation.
John Ganz • The Jock/Creep Theory of Fascism
"First, they fascinate the fools. Then, they muzzle the intelligent.” - Bertrand Russell
Fascists despised the small truths of daily existence, loved slogans that resonated like a new religion, and preferred creative myths to history or journalism. They used new media, which at the time was radio, to create a drumbeat of propaganda that aroused feelings before people had time to ascertain facts. And now, as then, many people confused
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What is Fascism?
Rodger Griffin describes Fascism as follows:
“Fascism is a genus of political ideology whose mythic core in it’s various permutations is a palingenetic form of populist ultra-nationalism”
The conversation around the meaning of fascism is often begun with the entomology of word fascism. The word is derived from the Italian “Fasces”
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