Madness everywhere. Just glance at the headlines leading The New York Times this morning:A Disregard for Rules Trickles Down From Trump to His AidesTrump Takes Government Secrecy Seriously. But Only ...

To this attempt at marking out the historical place of fascism as the political reliever of the social democracy, there was counterposed the theory of social fascism. At first it could appear as a ...

“Ur-Fascism,” wrote the Italian thinker Umberto Eco, derives from individual or social frustration. That is why one of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a ...

This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. Social scientists have long debated what fascism means, and when ...

Convinced at the last moment that fascism was not to be checked by obedience, the social democrats issued a call to the workers for a general strike. But their proclamation suffered a fiasco.

6.) Appeal to social frustration. Again, we will review Eco’s words about this feature of fascism: “One of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a ...

How do you resist when fascism isn’t just coming, it’s already here?” the Brooklyn native asked in a clip from the episode shared across social media. “What, if anything, can you do about it?

Gabriella Romano (Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London, Temple University, Rome.) Author of: Italian Fascism’s Forgotten LGBT Victims: Asylums and Internment, 1922 – 1943, ...