India is displaying classic signs that foreshadow fascism
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Re: India is displaying classic signs that foreshadow fascism
#2So does Turkey and many other countries.
Re: India is displaying classic signs that foreshadow fascism
#3This is total bull. Just because the us and the UK are screwing themselves over, doesn't mean that the rest of the world is too. BJP is inspired by Nazis and fascists... Do some research first. Jeez !
Re: India is displaying classic signs that foreshadow fascism
#4This is total bull. Just because the us and the UK are screwing themselves over, doesn't mean that the rest of the world is too. BJP is inspired by Nazis and fascists... Do some research first. Jeez !
You missed the just-aborted far right coup in Montenegro, or the way France is looking to see a run-off presidential election between a hard-right candidate and Marine Le Pen (who is a court-certified fascist -- as in, she sued an opponent who called her a fascist for libel and the court found that she was, indeed, a fascist)? Or the rise of the AfD in Germany? Golden Dawn in Greece? Vladimir Putin's adherence to the Dugin Doctrine expounded in "Foundations of Geopolitics"?
Trump and Brexit aren't isolated symptoms: it really does seem to be Springtime for Hitler wannabes this year.
Re: India is displaying classic signs that foreshadow fascism
#5mildly true.
However, as compared to Trump ? jeez not even the leader of India's right wing quasi-religious party could ever say "ban muslims" in India.
I have a feeling that we are going to see a lot more of these articles... the liberal media in the US is trying to make sense of what just happened. And the closest available model is the Indian democracy.
Re: India is displaying classic signs that foreshadow fascism
#6“These features cannot be organised into a system; many of them contradict each other and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it.”
Umberto Eco is a smart guy but that essay is pretty silly. Fascism: anywhere, everywhere, and you can tell it's coming by any number of contradictory and non-definite phenomena.
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#7What a load of bollocks this is exactly why the right has triumphed in America and Europe, the dumbass left continue their pursuit of identity politics which will wipe them out.
Re: India is displaying classic signs that foreshadow fascism
#8Is there any fact behind saying that Modi is inspired by Nazis?
Re: India is displaying classic signs that foreshadow fascism
#9mildly true. However, as compared to Trump ? jeez not even the leader of India's right wing quasi-religious party could ever say "ban muslims" in India. I have a feeling that we are going to see a lot more of these articles... the liberal media in the US is trying to make sense of what just happened. And the closest available model is the Indian democracy.
> jeez not even the leader of India's right wing quasi-religious party could ever say "ban muslims" in India.
Modi was held directly held responsible for 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom, though he was later cleared of all wrongdoing( politicians almost never get convicted of any crime in India, they are noble class that hovers over the democracy but never directly participates in it.)
Re: India is displaying classic signs that foreshadow fascism
#10How many democracies aren't, these days? It's gonna be a grim decade, you can be sure of it.