Is Fascism Back?

What IS fascism?
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You hear it everywhere these days: Fascism is back. I wanted to know if that was true. But first I had a lot to learn about what fascism actually means.

If you want to learn more about fascism, we also created a reading list you can check out here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QJhL0su0W0h5OplsWC9egqP4KB84bXZyYZWHf2ZhXU0/edit?tab=t.0

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- Mabel Berezin, Cornell University
- Roger Griffin, Oxford Brookes University
- Federico Finchelstein, The New School for Social Research
- Timothy Snyder, University of Toronto
- William I. Robinson, UC Santa Barbara
- Alexander Reid Ross, Portland State University


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-- VIDEO CHAPTERS --
0:00 Intro
2:29 Fork in the road
6:59 Mussolini
15:59 The Fascist path to power
25:25 Interwar Germany
30:02 Hitler
37:13 The Nazi path to power
45:29 The list
49:36 The big question

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