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The Red Army wouldn't have won without the Black Army and proceeded to purge the black army once they won. The Soviet aid to anarchist antifascist forces in Spain in the fight against Franco sure seemed a lot more interested in shooting the Republican Anarchists than they did in actually...

We're entering into another discussion at this point, but I find Lenin's argument that the state will naturally wither away unconvincing, given the history of communist states and how precisely zero of them have withered away, at time of writing (and also ten years on from writing). Power does...

See, here, you're reading different scholars to me, obviously, and I'd be interested in who. I don't think I've seen Eco in a journal article or book. I think he nails a lot, co was a smart dude, but the essay is pop fascism scholarship. I like to use it because its short and fairly easy, its...

Okay, yes. I resent a little the notion that I overrelied on a listicle, I cite other scholars throughout. Eco doesn't even say it needs All Of The Points. The only of Eco's things that I'm pretty essentialist about is the cult of action, but that one's because I've not read someone who didn't...

Not sufficient, no, you need other aspects, like the rebirth of the nation, the (twisted) idealism, the leader cult and the cult of action. Eco's notion of Popular Elitism - that "Every citizen belongs to the best people of the world, the members of the party are the best among the citizens...

Hey all. I done'd an essay about depicitions of fascism within the Fallout games. Used to post here a bunch about twenty years back as RPGenius, but I've lost the e-mail addy connected to that account. Anyway, y'all struck me as people who might enjoy an essay about Fallout and have opinions on...