Fascism Anyone?
Laurence W. Britt
Earlier I had published 10 characteristics. This is a more comprehensive definition. Originally published in Free Inquiry Magazine Volume 23, Number 2, and republished here from Council of Secular Humanism. Restrictions apply.
Free Inquiry readers may pause to read the “Affirmations of Humanism: A Statement of Principles” on the inside cover of the magazine. To a secular humanist, these principles seem so logical, so right, so crucial. Yet, there is one archetypal political philosophy that is anathema to almost all of these principles. It is fascism. And fascism’s principles are wafting in the air today, surreptitiously masquerading as something else, challenging everything we stand for. The cliché that people and nations learn from history is not only overused, but also overestimated; often we fail to learn from history, or draw the wrong conclusions. Sadly, historical amnesia is the norm. (more…)
