Readings for What is Fascism? Session 5 (St. Paul)

In our final session, we will discuss the Pyle reading on Japan from last week and conclude and reflect. What, indeed, is fascism? Please read the following before our final class on the 14th (we have next week off).

Required:

Paul Gottfried, “The Uses and Misuses of ‘Fascism’”, Society (2017)

gottfried fascism.pdf

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat, “The Return of Fascism in Italy”, The Atlantic (2022)

ben ghiat italy fascism.pdf

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Stanley Payne, “The F-Word”, First Things (2022)

Optional:

Jason Stanley, “How is fascism distinct from other extreme ideologies? These 10 traits

offer clues.” Big Think (2022)

Georgia Meloni, Speech at World Congress of Families (2019)