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A Brief History of Fascist Lies
A Brief History of Fascist Lies | Federico Finchelstein
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In this short companion to his book From Fascism to Populism in History, world-renowned historian Federico Finchelstein explains why fascists regarded simple and often hateful lies as truth, and why so many of their followers believed the falsehoods. Throughout the history of the twentieth century, many supporters of fascist ideologies regarded political lies as truth incarnated in their leader. From Hitler to Mussolini, fascist leaders capitalized on lies as the base of their power and popular sovereignty. This history continues in the present, when lies again seem to increasingly replace empirical truth. Now that actual news is presented as "fake news" and false news becomes government policy, A Brief History of Fascist Lies urges us to remember that the current talk of "post-truth" has a long political and intellectual lineage that we cannot ignore.
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A Brief History of Fascist Lies | Federico Finchelstein
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A Brief History of Fascist Lies | Federico Finchelstein
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Timely history lesson & warning of present lying narcissistic leaders. Seeing this is a companion to a 2017 book, From Fascism to Populism in History, I may need to check out. This was a great audio pairing with Orwell‘s 1984-crazy parallels between fiction & reality. Warning of lies fascist populist narcissists want us to believe-doublethink is real-don‘t believe your eyes & ears-only the leader tells truth. A good one for political season.

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A Brief History of Fascist Lies | Federico Finchelstein
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This slim volume explores why and how historical fascist figures lie. For a little book, it‘s surprisingly deep in fascist thought from around the world especially South America. Now that I understand the cult-like religious zeal of believers, I wish I had a companion volume about how to communicate with people who deny empirical truths. Really great footnotes! #history #fascism #populism

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