{"id":27067,"date":"2023-06-23T21:21:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T04:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=27067"},"modified":"2023-06-23T21:21:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T04:21:10","slug":"book-how-fascism-works-the-politics-of-us-and-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/06\/23\/book-how-fascism-works-the-politics-of-us-and-them\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: \u201cHOW FASCISM WORKS: THE POLITICS OF US AND THEM\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1587653031i\/38255329.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/15453943.Jason_F_Stanley\">Jason F. Stanley<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/en\/book\/show\/38255329#CommunityReviews\"><\/a><strong>Fascist politics are running rampant in America today\u2014and spreading around the world. A Yale philosopher identifies the ten pillars of fascist politics, and charts their horrifying rise and deep history.<\/strong><br><br>As the child of refugees of World War II Europe and a renowned philosopher and scholar of propaganda, Jason Stanley has a deep understanding of how democratic societies can be vulnerable to fascism: Nations don\u2019t have to be fascist to suffer from fascist politics. In fact, fascism\u2019s roots have been present in the United States for more than a century. Alarmed by the pervasive rise of fascist tactics both at home and around the globe, Stanley focuses here on the structures that unite them, laying out and analyzing the ten pillars of fascist politics\u2013the language and beliefs that separate people into an \u201cus\u201d and a \u201cthem.\u201d He 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. He makes clear the immense danger of underestimating the cumulative power of these tactics, which include exploiting a mythic version of a nation\u2019s past; propaganda that twists the language of democratic ideals against themselves; anti-intellectualism directed against universities and experts; law and order politics predicated on the assumption that members of minority groups are criminals; and fierce attacks on labor groups and welfare. These mechanisms all build on one another, creating and reinforcing divisions and shaping a society vulnerable to the appeals of authoritarian leadership.<br><br>By uncovering disturbing patterns that are as prevalent today as ever, Stanley reveals that the stuff of politics\u2014charged by rhetoric and myth\u2014can quickly become policy and reality. Only by recognizing fascists politics, he argues, may we resist its most harmful effects and return to democratic ideals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Goodreads.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them Jason F. Stanley Fascist politics are running rampant in America today\u2014and spreading around the world. A Yale philosopher identifies the ten pillars of fascist politics, and charts their horrifying rise and deep history. As the child of refugees of World War&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/06\/23\/book-how-fascism-works-the-politics-of-us-and-them\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[716],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27068,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27067\/revisions\/27068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}