1. “the cult of tradition” (which may be “syncretic” and able to “tolerate contradictions”)
2. “the rejection of modernism” and “irrationalism”
3. “the cult of action for action’s sake”
4. “dissent is betrayal”
5. “fear of difference,” or racism
6. “the appeal to the frustrated middle classes”
7. “obsession with conspiracies,” along with xenophobia and nationalism
8. “the enemy is at once too strong and too weak”
9. ‘Pacifism is. . .collusion with the enemy,” “life is a permanent war,” and only a “final solution” can herald an age of peace
10. “scorn for the weak” imposed by a mass elite
11. “the cult of death”
12. transferring of the “will to power onto sexual questions,” or “machismo”
13. “individuals have no rights,” and fascism “has to oppose ‘rotten’ parliamentary governments”
14. “Ur-Fascism uses newspeak.”
அசல்: Is America Becoming Fascist? by Anis Shivani
நகல்: A Half Century’s Slander by Jonah Goldberg on National Review
- the cult of action,
- the glorification of violence,
- the exaltation of youth,
- the perceived need to create “new men,”
- the hatred of conventional morality and traditional authority,
- the adoration of “the street” and “people power,”
- the justification of crime as political rebellion,
- the denigration of the rule of law as a form of oppression.
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