The Wannabe Fascists: A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Democracy by Federico Finchelstein

Author:Federico Finchelstein [Finchelstein, Federico]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General, World, Philosophy, Political, Political Science, Political Ideologies, Fascism & Totalitarianism
ISBN: 9780520392496
Google: LIfzEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2024-05-14T09:35:30.575629+00:00

RACE: It is superfluous to emphasize the importance of Racial Unity in the Nation idea. A Race is a hereditary Society having common customs, common language, common memories of glory or disaster; in short, it is a population with a common origin under one culture. Such a race is by far the important ingredient of a Nation. Even if there be people of a foreign origin, they must have become assimilated into the body of the mother race and inextricably fused into it. They should have become one with the original national race, not only in its economic and political life, but also in its religion, culture and language, for otherwise such foreign races may be considered, under certain circumstances, at best members of a common state for political purposes; but they can never form part and parcel of the National body. If the mother race is destroyed either by destruction of the persons composing it or by loss of the principle of its existence, its religion and culture, the nation itself comes to an end. We will not seek to prove this axiomatic truth, that the Race is the body of the Nation, and that with its fall, the Nation ceases to exist.113

As French scholar Christophe Jaffrelot argued, once these ideologies of hatred are ingrained in the logic of radicalism and in the ruling party, they cannot be easily detached from politics. In fact, the opposite happens. The current form of Hindu populism under Modi advanced the legacy of Indian fascist predecessors. The nation is currently conceived in exclusionary terms that conflate the leader with the people, while blaming whatever happens in society on the leader’s enemies. As with the fascist pogroms and persecutions of the past, the consequences can be extreme. In India,

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