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Fascism

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Political concept discussed in context of Adorno's tendency to overuse the term, but also defended as sometimes being the correct word to describe certain political events.

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"I'm also thinking of all the post structuralists like Adorno and his crankiness and predisposition to call everything fascist, where school is fascist, the military is fascist, movies and TV are fascist, mayonnaise is fascist.. etc. Or Foucault, who thought that everything was about sex and dominati"
"1984 and Animal Farm are cornerstones of modern political thought. Known by all and cited near as often as the Good Book itself, his critiques of Fascism and Authoritarian Communism are oft brandished, cudgel-like by in the political arena."
Down and Out in London and Paris by Georgie Orwell · u/RMB164 · ↑57 · 2022-04-26
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