Reddit mentions of Fascists

Here is a book about actual fascism It doesn't achieve everything it sets out to theoretically, but it's a good try.

Although Arendt focused on totalitarianism it's a classic for a reason and it would be unwise to omit.

I generally recommend ignoring the Eco essay on Ur Fascism it's popular on the internet because it's brief and a list, but it's sort of a glib pig's breakfast and not very well thought out.

If you think the United States is drifting toward fascism, you might want to understand why that's just internet nonsense.

Problem is that those people are very class-conscious although they keep attacking anything distantly Marxist or "Marxist", they are aware of their position in capitalist society. Fascist movements always pretended to be class-transcending, they attacked whole division of people to classes and they partly succeeded, their voting structure had the biggest share of proletariat constituency among right-wing parties. In some lesser known fascisms like in Romania or Hungary the fascist party was basically the working-class party.

Also those fascisms were absolutely grassroots movements, they used paramilitaries as their armed wing. Nothing to do with few powerful politicians trying to attack their adversaries with laws.

Those arguments at the bottom of the page are laughable as well. Cutting education spending is fascist sign? Tell that to 1930s newborns that were doctrinated by schools and camps all their childhood. German fascism flourished firstly among students on universities. And if attacking collective bargaining is also fascist trait then communist governments were fascist as well, because they effectively destroyed unions by coopting them.

Those governers can be only some kind of classic authoritarians, but that won't work as slur since every populace has their kind of people who would prefer stronger iron fist in government than free love everywhere.

I sincerely recommend this book: "http://www.amazon.com/Fascists-Michael-Mann/dp/0521538556/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345749207&sr=8-1&keywords=fascism+michael+mann because it outright says it is gonna take fascists seriously which is anything but done nowadays.