Political Ideologies: Fascism
In this supporter-exclusive midweek episode, Trey is joined by Justin, and they conclude their exploration of the classic political ideologies with a deep dive into Fascism.
On this week’s show, Trey and Justin discuss:
- Fascism’s rejection of reason and its rejection of Enlightenment rationality.
- The centrality of violence and struggle as an enduring premise of fascism.
- How fascism holds the past as idyllic goal that that will lead to greatness in response to a degenerate modernity.
- Fascism’s rejection of democracy with a specific focus on Carl Schmitt’s critique parliamentary democracy in which Schmitt argues that a singular leader can be more authentic to a peoples will than a process of voting.
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