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Kevin Passmore

Tuesday 3rd of March 2026

Alt-righters [T]he question of whether or not the moderrn far right's stance is “fascist” has no bearing on the moral accceptability of its proposals. For instance: would the expulsion of non-whites from a country be more accepatble if it was the work of a non-fascist government? Kevin Passmore, Fascism: A Very Short Introduction © 2024 Kwiple.com
Fascism Although many regimes and movements imitated aspects of fascism, explicitly fascist movements generally struggled to become regimes. There is no straightforward reason for this failure, for economic crisis and  fear of communism were very widespread, even where actual communists were rare. The most convincing explanation is that fascism did best where it combined leverage in parliament with street action, as it had in Italy and Germany, and to a lesser extent in Hungary. Kevin Passmore, A Very Short Introduction to Fascism © 2022 Kwiple.com
Fascism Fascism remains an ‘available option,’ and there is no reason to suppose that fascists could not gain power in circumstances quite different to those pertaining in the inter-war years. Modern society, after all, depends on a potentially fragile network of trust and negotiation, which could easily come crashing down. Kevin Passmore, Fascism: A Very Short Introduction © 2017 Kwiple.com
Fascism It matters less than we might think whether Trump or any other figure is “fascist” in some academic sense. The real question is moral – do we see their policies as morally acceptable? And if history teaches anything, it is that people who called themselves neither fascist or Nazi were capable of complicity in repugnant acts. Kevin Passmore, The Guardian, November 7, 2016 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Fascism The only thing that really distinguishes fascism from other concepts is its enormous negative moral charge. … Politicians and journalists use definitions  as weapons and fascism is a very good one. Kevin Passmore, Fascism: A Very Short Introduction © 2024 Kwiple.com
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Racism Racism is prejudice erected into a system. Kevin Passmore, Fascism: A Very Short Introduction © 2024 Kwiple.com