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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

Stanley, Jason

Hardcover

PhilosophyGeneral Political ScienceGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $28.00

ISBN10: 0525511830
ISBN13: 9780525511830
Publisher: Random House
Published: Sep 4 2018
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.70
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.40 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - No single book is as relevant to the present moment.--Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen

With unsettling insight and disturbing clarity, How Fascism Works is an essential guidebook to our current national dilemma of democracy vs. authoritarianism.--Jelani Cobb, New Yorker staff writer

A Yale philosopher identifies the ten pillars of fascist politics, and charts their horrifying rise and deep history.

As a scholar of philosophy and propaganda and the child of refugees of WWII Europe, Jason Stanley has long understood that democratic societies, including the United States, can be vulnerable to fascism. In How Fascism Works, he identifies ten pillars of fascist politics--an appeal to the mythic past, propaganda, anti-intellectualism, unreality, hierarchy, victimhood, law and order, sexual anxiety, favoring the heartland, and a dismantling of public goods and unions--that amount to an urgent diagnosis of the tactics right-wing politicians use to break down democracies and a critical lens on the current moment.

Stanley knits together reflections on history, philosophy, sociology, and critical race theory with stories from contemporary Hungary, Poland, India, Myanmar, and the United States, among other nations, making clear the immense dangers of language and beliefs that separate people into an us and a them. By uncovering disturbing patterns that are as prevalent today as ever, Stanley reveals that the stuff of politics--rhetoric and myth--can become policy and reality all too quickly. Only by recognizing them, he argues, can we begin to resist their most harmful effects and return to democratic ideals.

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