"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.

This technique is as old as the hills..."

-- Bertrand Russell, Freedom and Government, an essay included in the book Freedom: Its Meaning by Ruth Nana Anshen, 1940.

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