GEOLOGY 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ernest Gellner, Social Policy, Agricultural Cooperative
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Fascism was the major political innovation of the twentieth century, and the source of much of its pain. (paxton, the anatomy of fascism) + typical of the age of universal voting rights: claiming to speak for the entire population. + suppression, extermination of opponents, people deemed dangerous for the nation. More difficult to discuss in neutral terms than the more intellectual ideologies. Source of the bad memories of the 20th century. Another great 20th-century innovation & one of the defining phenomena of the 20th-century. But: internationalist and inclusive >< fascism: national and exclusive. Claiming to speak on behalf of the people". Against established elites (deeming them as corrupt, self-serving ) Excludes certain groups of people (immigrants, new citizens from other countries ) No uniformed men fighting in the streets (so far) Fascism is populist, but not all populism ends up being fascism. State populism": make ppl identify with the nation rather than with socialist or right-wing rabble rousers.
