Hey, sorry to necro-post. But now it’s just you and me and all the internet tough guys have left. I appreciate your point of view and I am curious about something you said.
How can the “political ideology” of fascism every “be defeated”? Even accepting that you can “defeat” an ideology, and that fascism is even meaningfully thought of as an ideology at all (which I don’t think is a helpful lens), fascism works, and it works because of elements of human psychology that we can’t simply get rid of. People will always be able to enlist the support of others by throwing vulnerable people under the bus. How is that an ideology that can be defeated? Surely we have to address the conditions that allow human psychology to be exploited in such a way, to help people empower themselves and not feel the fear that makes hatred appealing in the first place.
Hey, sorry to necro-post. But now it’s just you and me and all the internet tough guys have left. I appreciate your point of view and I am curious about something you said.
How can the “political ideology” of fascism every “be defeated”? Even accepting that you can “defeat” an ideology, and that fascism is even meaningfully thought of as an ideology at all (which I don’t think is a helpful lens), fascism works, and it works because of elements of human psychology that we can’t simply get rid of. People will always be able to enlist the support of others by throwing vulnerable people under the bus. How is that an ideology that can be defeated? Surely we have to address the conditions that allow human psychology to be exploited in such a way, to help people empower themselves and not feel the fear that makes hatred appealing in the first place.