How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them Audiobook (Free)

“A vital browse for a country under Trump.”­-The Guardian

“By placing Trump in transnational and transhistorical perspective, Stanley sees patterns that others miss . . Twenty months into Trump’s presidency, the data is definitely mounting that he’s correct.”-The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)

Fascist politics are running rampant in the us today-and spreading around the world. A Yale philosopher identifies the ten pillars of fascist politics, and graphs their horrifying rise about How Fascism Functions: The Politics of Us and Them and deep background.

As the kid of refugees of Globe War II Europe and a renowned philosopher and scholar of propaganda, Jason Stanley has a deep knowledge of how democratic societies could be vulnerable to fascism: Countries don’t have to be fascist to have problems with fascist politics. In fact, fascism’s roots have been present in the United States for greater than a century. Alarmed by the pervasive rise of fascist techniques both in the home and around the world, Stanley focuses here over the buildings that unite them, installation of and analyzing the ten pillars of fascist politics-the language and beliefs that different people into an “us” and a “them.” He knits together reflections on history, school of thought, sociology, and critical competition theory with tales from contemporary Hungary, Poland, India, Myanmar, and the United States, among other countries. He makes very clear the immense danger of underestimating the cumulative power of these methods, which include exploiting a mythic edition of a nation’s past; propaganda that twists the language of democratic ideals against themselves; anti-intellectualism directed against colleges and experts; legislation and purchase politics based on the assumption that members of minority organizations are scammers; and fierce episodes on labor groups and welfare. These mechanisms all build using one another, creating and reinforcing divisions and shaping a culture vulnerable to the appeals of authoritarian management.

By uncovering troubling patterns that are as common today as ever, Stanley reveals the fact that stuff of politics-charged by rhetoric and myth-can swiftly become policy and reality. Just by spotting fascists politics, he argues, may we withstand its most harmful effects and return to democratic ideals.

“With unsettling insight and disturbing clarity, How Fascism Works is an necessary guidebook to your current national dilemma of democracy vs. authoritarianism.”-William Jelani Cobb, author of The Element of Hope