How To Be A Fascist: A Manual

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The first and only guide to turning your 21st century democracy into a fascist paradiseDemocracy is difficult flawed and unstable It involves barely distinguishable political parties taking part in lengthy overcomplicated and expensive decisionmaking processes Trying to engage so many people with political issues seems to lead only to complexity and disagreement So why bother Doesnt fascism guarantee a more effective and efficient management of the stateIn this short bitingly ironic mixture of On Tyranny and The Psychopath Test Italian political activist Michela Murgia explores the logic that is attracting increasing numbers of voters to rightwing populism Far from its origins in the 20th century fascism is once again on the rise in an age of increased connectivity and globalism Murgia shows how many of the elements of our society that we might think would combat closedmindedness and xenophobia actually fan the flames Closing with a fascistometer to measure the readers own authoritarian inclinations How to be a Fascist is a refreshingly direct polemical book that asks us to confront the fascisim in our governments in our societies and in our own political leanings