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Alan Dyche's avatar

Thank you for re-introducing Aristotle’s elegant categorization of politics

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George Black's avatar

I asked: "What is the experience of fascism from the point of view of the followers?" Leaders come and go, but the followership seems to always discover the same playbook. Uniforms, armbands, slogans, scapegoating and genocide. Arndt et al wanted to attribute it to psychology, but I always find that unsatisfying, as one personality type is never enough population percentage to make a whole civilization.

As I dip into various fields, the consitent element seems to be loyalty. Loyalty to Rome, loyalty to the Third Reich, loyalty to the mafia, loyalty to Trump. Should we be looking at this as something in the heirachy of needs?

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