I've been reading a little anarchist material lately, scholarly stuff centred around Iain M. Banks' CULTURE novels. I'm finding I have the same reaction to it as I do Marxist material: this hot stuff, great tools for critiquing power, and some new ways of looking at the world that will inform my politics.

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“Wannabe fascism is an incomplete version of fascism,” Finchelstein argues, “characteristic of those who seek to destroy democracy for short-term personal gain but are not fully committed to the fascist cause.”
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https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/08/15/american-descent-wannabe-fascists-america-last/

Intellectual humility is associated with less affective polarization and, among conservatives, less polarized attitudes

Perhaps driven by more political heterophily among the humble

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pops.12890

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