![]() Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers’ enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. “Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus-the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls All Thinking People of Conscience Everywhere Only a broad-based mobilization-a form of embodied and transnational courage, we might say-will successfully defeat xenophobic nationalism and the various alibis that now threaten democracy. ![]() “As long as ‘security’ continues to justify the banning and dispersion of demonstrations, assemblies, and encampments, it serves the decimation of democratic rights and democracy itself. ―Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom Hopefully there will always be good people courageous enough to take on the bad guys, this is the only way humanity can hope for salvation” “The world will not be destroyed by evil people but by good people who do nothing to stop it. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism “Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.” “It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished -unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” And believing that something can end is often instrumental to working toward ending it how the people in Eastern Europe dared to hope that their efforts might succeed I cannot imagine.” ![]() Hitler killed himself Stalin and Franco lasted too long but ultimately dropped dead and last year Franco’s body was exhumed from its grand prison-labor-built monument and dumped in a municipal cemetery Pol Pot died in prison Mugabe had to step down Putin is not immortal.Įvery day under these monstrosities was too long, and part of the horror of life under a corrupt and brutal regime is that it seems never-ending, but nothing lasts forever. “The Thousand Year Reich did not last two decades the Soviet Union lasted three quarters of a century Idi Amin ruled for eight years the Confederacy didn’t make it to kindergarten Argentina’s Dirty War lasted six years Pinochet dominated Chile for sixteen years nothing lasts forever, even the worst things. “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” Masha Gessen ( New York Times Review of Books, Nov 26, 2016) This will happen often: Humans seem to have evolved to practice denial when confronted publicly with the unacceptable.” Whenever you find yourself thinking, or hear others claiming, that he is exaggerating, that is our innate tendency to reach for a rationalization. Send others our way at #1: Believe the autocrat. We kick things off below with the amazing Masha Gessen and Judith Butler. So, we’re issuing a call for additional inspiration from anti-authoritarian womyn, queer, and BIPOC thinkers. That said, we noticed more recently that this list of quotes (since significantly modified) bears a high level of dudebrocentricity. Out of everything we’ve ever posted to Deceleration, this post has consistently been top of the most-viewed-posts ticker, to our mild surprise. ![]() Print Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator (1940)ĮDITOR’S NOTE: Here’s a collection of quotes about fascism we reposted at some point in the dreadful abyss between the 2016 election and President Low Turnout’s inauguration.
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