Are there any recorded cases of a nation's populace identifying a growing fascist movement before it fully took control, and then successfully rooting it out without resorting to civil war? Asking for a friend.
@im Do all the fascist parties count if they’re (not yet) in power? FN in France, AdF in Germany? Did we loose Austria to FPÖ or are they not established enough? SVP in Switzerland is part of the majority but doesn’t hold power in its own, either. So, there’s still hope as long as the institutions make it through the brown years.
@karl @im I used to be Austrian, I have family in Austria, my dad lives in Vienna, my sister lives in Klagenfurt, and every now and then I drive past the curve where Haider died in a car crash and it is still full of flowers. I feel quite qualified to write about Austria. The budget is not the most important part of government.
@kensanata @karl @im Budget is a huge part of government. If you create debits killing your country, you do something wrong IMHO. but every serious argument for sure is fine for discussion.
@karl I find the Ur-Fascism article by Umberto Eco still relevant today.
@kensanata I guess "in power" is fairly vague. I think consolidation of power and abolition of competing ideologies is an essential part of the descent into fascism and it certainly doesn't look like any of the parties you've listed have achieved that, but nor is it clear that they've been defeated in any decisive sense. Anyway, these are more contemporary examples than historical ones.
@im .UK does this on a regular basis I think
There certainly have been transitions from Fascism or semi-fascism to crony capitalism aka "democracy" without civil war.
Spain
Argentina
Brazil
Turkey (and now back again)
Chile
South Africa
Czech Republic
Just to take some obvious examples.
