the evil that is known as fascism

This is another post where I will dump a collection of links for reference purposes: 

from the Internet and other sources: 

• Council on Foreign Relations:   World101 - “What Is Fascism?”   https://world101.cfr.org/contemporary-history/world-war/what-fascism   when accessed, last updated on 14^th April, 2023   

• The Conversation:   “What is fascism?”   https://theconversation.com/what-is-fascism-153947   26^th February , 2021   
  

• Time:   “What to Know About the Origins of Fascism’s Brutal Ideology”   https://time.com/5556242/what-is-fascism/   when accessed, last updated on 22^nd March, 2019    

• Radical  Women:   “Build a democratic united front to stop the far-right “freedom” movement”   https://www.radicalwomen.org/statements/statements-2021/United-front-stop-ultra-right.shtml   17^th December, 2021   and   “No to Red-baiting in the Reproductive Justice Movement”   https://www.radicalwomen.org/statements/statements-2022/No-to-redbaiting.shtml   2^nd August, 2022   and   “Women Resist Fascism: Yesterday and Today”   https://www.radicalwomen.org/images/WomenResistFascismSyllabus.pdf   (notes for a course)   

• Freedom Socialist Party:   multiple articles at https://socialism.com/category/anti-fascism/   and   https://socialism.com/?s=fascism   (Note: is marxist, but their material on fascism is good)  
  

• https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism  
  

• https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fascism    

• https://www.britannica.com/summary/fascism   and   https://www.britannica.com/topic/fascism  

• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Definitions_of_fascism&oldid=1189640591,   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fascism&oldid=1190015268,   and   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fascism_and_ideology&oldid=1186676064  
  

• “N_z_ Fanatics and Gangland Executions | B2W: ZEITGEIST! I E.26 Winter 1925”   https://youtu.be/KjPnylQNT6E   and   “Rise of Evil - From Populism to Fascism | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1932 Part 4 of 4”   https://youtu.be/t9PYCxIyyF8   from the   “The Rise of N_z_ Germany” playlist   https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrG5J-K5AYAWfQcaJ7nCjYBpHnWNAJ9mb      

• “LIVE: TOP Psychiatrist BACK with MAJOR UPDATE on Trump Mental Collapse | The Weekend Show”   https://www.youtube.com/live/Npp5XEuDBz4   The commentary on circumstances where personal interviews are not necessary or are even unhelpful was informative, surprising, and interesting - and has given some nuance to the Goldwater Rule, IMO. However, IMO, the suggestion that mental fitness evaluations should be performed is potentially dangerous: consider if that were to be set up by Trump appointees, or was assessed through the racist / sexist / ableist / ageist / other biases/bigotries that have historically plagued the psychiatric/psychological industries and the politico-economic-social soup they operate in ... Having made that point, if that can be managed, it is similar to something I have thought about fairly often: testing for unconscious biases, including authoritarianism, so those biases/favouritisms can be managed.      The point that fascism is a mental health issue, rather than a political one, at around 24:38, is MAJOR - and fits what we see in history.   At 40:00:   “Yes, you’re right - because his speeches are dangerous. He may not be able to form sentences, but he knows how to manipulate minds, yeah. Now A____ H_tl_r was was said to be a seismograph of crowds, meaning that he could sense the needs of the crowds - sense their, uh, emotional vulnerabilities and dispositions, and to be able to play on those things, uh, as if playing an instrument. To be able to uh essentially turn them into his instruments, and, uh, Donald Trump has the same ability. It may be seen as an in-as an ingenious skill, but it’s actually compensatory. It’s compensatory of his lack of empathy, compassion, conscience, his inability to connect with other people emotionally, and so he has seen people not as other human beings,  but as instruments to attain his goals”   It all reminds me of what Voltaire wrote:   “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”   https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/20527-those-who-can-make-you-believe-absurdities-can-make-you   And the final comments about Trump spreading symptoms of mental illness are both credible, based on what I have seen, and terrifying ...      Additional relevant links are:   “Bandy X. Lee”   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bandy_X._Lee&oldid=1242347221      “Goldwater rule”   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goldwater_rule&oldid=1240380818   “(the evil that is known as) fascism”   https://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-evil-that-is-known-as-fascism.html      
  

 

books: 

•    <for other, future posts>   

• “Fascism: A Warning” by Madeleine  Albright and Bill Woodward, pub. William Collins, 2018, ISBN-13 (paperback) 978-0008282301   Amazon https://www.amazon.com.au/Fascism-Warning-Madeleine-Albright-ebook/dp/B075QWKVBG/ref=sr_1_9    

• "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century" by Timothy  Snyder, pub. Vintage Publishing, 2017, ISBN 978-1847924889 Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/Tyranny-Twenty-Lessons-Twentieth-Century-ebook/dp/B01N9OJ2DX/ref=sr_1_2  

• “The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia”   by Masha Gessen, pub. Granta Books, 2017, ISBN-13 (paperback) 978-1594634543   Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Future-History-Totalitarianism-Reclaimed-Russia/dp/1594634548/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0  
  

 

my major posts:

•    <for other, future posts>   

• “The far right’s undeclared global war   [Note: Content Warning - links to reports on bigotry/hate, violence/abuse/war. Reader discretion is advised]”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-far-rights-undeclared-global-war.html   

• “Review and lessons from TimeGhost Army’s “Rise of Evil - From Populism to Fascism””   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2019/10/review-and-lessons-from-timeghost-armys.html   Saturday 12^th October 2019   

• “A YouTube video on problems with power - and ways to prevent them [Content Warning: cruelty, abuse, violence, atrocities, abuse of power/scandals, bad choices, narcissism, politics, police violence]”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-youtube-video-on-problems-with-power.html   Wednesday 30^th August 2023   

• “One of the evils of fascism”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2023/01/one-of-evils-of-fascism.html   Thursday 12^th January 2023    

• “The coming global waves of hates ... and canaries in the mine (~930 words; 3 - 5 min. read)”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-coming-global-waves-of-hates-and.html   Thursday 8^th September 2022  
  

• “Emotional, psychological, social, intellectual, legal, and MORAL blindness to cruelty (~1,800 words - 8 - 11 min. read)”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2022/05/emotional-psychological-social.html   Friday 20^th May 2022   

• “Digital dumbness, the still active evil of n___sm, and an Australian Magnitsky Act”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2021/10/digital-dumbness-still-active-evil-of.html   Thursday 28^th October 2021   which includes:   as the victims of neo-nazi violence in Australia give evidence of their experiences, neo-nazis in the USA are being successfully fought using legal action - by the costs being imposed; 

• “The USA”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-usa.html   Wednesday 4^th November 2020   

• “Post No. 796 - the importance of non-violence”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2015/12/post-no-796-importance-of-non-violence.html   Monday 14^th December 2015   

• “Post No. 505 - Lessons from the past: the film “Kamchatka””   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2014/01/lessons-from-past-film-kamchatka.html   Tuesday 7^th January 2014  
  

 

my other posts:

   <for other, future posts>   

• “Post No. 2,639 - Fighting the forces of evil”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2023/11/post-no-2639-fighting-forces-of-evil.html   Monday 20^th November 2023   

• “Post No. 2,632 - The world feels like ... [Content Warning]”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2023/11/post-no-2632-world-feels-like-content.html   Saturday 11^th November 2023   

• “Post No. 2,601 - Unwarranted, foolish, and damaging, destructive, or evil loyalty [Content Warning - mention of evil]”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2023/09/post-no-2601-unwarranted-foolish-and.html   Friday 29^th September 2023  
  

• “Accountability”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2023/08/accountability.html   Monday 14^th August 2023   

• “Post No. 2,535 - Trauma [Content Warning: bigotry/discrimination and other forms of abuse, violence, sexual violence, CSA, self harm]”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2023/08/post-no-2535-trauma-content-warning.html   Monday 7^th August 2023  

• “Post No. 2,523 - Some thoughts on the legal cases against #45, and on countering evil [Content Warning: harm, abuse, power, violence, trauma]”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2023/07/post-no-2523-some-thoughts-on-legal.html   Monday 31^st July 2023   includes links to other, relevant posts   

• “Post No. 2,513 - more hate and authoritarian insularity, fear and fascism”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2023/07/post-no-2513-more-hate-and.html   Wednesday 26^th July 2023   

• “Post No. 2,438 - The pendulum is swinging”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2023/05/post-no-2438-pendulum-is-swinging.html   Friday 12^th May 2023  
  

• “The enabling and consequences of hate and amathia - including fascism and even more extreme right wing extremism [Content Warning - anger at violent bigotry]”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-enabling-and-consequences-of-hate.html   Wednesday 5^th April 2023   

• “The combat of words [Note: Content Warning - discusses harm and wrongdoing]”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-combat-of-words.html   Monday 5^th January 2023  
  

• “The truth behind resistance to human rights”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-truth-behind-resistance-to-human.html   Thursday 22^nd September 2022   

• “A perspective: now, then, and the yet to come - for the few, and the many”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2022/03/a-perspective-now-then-and-yet-to-come.html   Saturday 5^th March 2022    

• “(Some) police and other subclinical psychopaths”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2021/04/police.html   Monday 12^th April 2021   

• “The seemingly “little” things matter”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-seemingly-little-things-matter.html   Tuesday 6^th April 2021   

• “An initial response to Rutger Bregman's “Humankind””   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2020/05/an-initial-response-to-rutger-bregmans.html   Thursday 21^st May 2020   

• “Voters and the possible impeachment of POTUS45”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2019/10/voters-and-possible-impeachment-of.html   Sunday 6^th October 2019   
  

• “Post No. 1,181 - Trauma”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2018/07/post-no-1181-trauma.html   Monday 9^th July 2018   
  

• “The problem of the Newtonian heart, mind and soul worldview”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-problem-of-newtonian-heart-mind-and.html   Friday 30^th March 2018   

my other “definitions”: 

   <for other, future posts>   

• my glossary definition of “evil” - which also includes a list of links  
  

• my glossary definitions of   bigotry,  ethics,   FBU,   FoC,   LBI,   Newtonian worldview,   patriarchy,   toxic masculinity,   toxic positivity,   transgenocide,   virtue signalling;