In off work are we starting

I'm*

starting what, the meeting?

@everyone The book club is today! For this week, I am going to test it out over text in this channel. For the next meeting, we may attempt a voice discussion.

We read the Anatomy of Fascism, so I mocked up a few questions and possible talking points to keep in mind for the club meeting, which will be 10pm Eastern.

- From the descriptions of the coming to power of fascist leaders and parties, do you see any similarities to the current day? Do you believe a fascist leader could take power today?

- As stated in the text, do you find fascism's lack of a central doctrine a problem? Or does the absence of one enable fascist leaders to move more freely when pursuing goals?

- Related to above, do you believe that humans need detailed guidelines to live by or are more general rulesets fine?

Ex. Having a detailed workout routine, or going to the gym with the idea to work out certain ares of your body, but no specific workouts planned.

- The author focused on the coming into power of the fascists, a huge factor, he states, was the power and position held by conservatives who allied with the fascists. Do you believe that the fascists could have come into power without these conservative allies? How so?

- Why would a people support fascism (or authotarianism)? What would those who didn't support fascism do to fight it? The book seems to point that the fascists allied with the conservatives, do you believe opponents of fascism would side with the left to fight its rise (just as some liberals are doing now: joining the right to fight the marxists?)?

- General Topic of Discussion : Fascism as a system of government, authoritarianism, the book's approach, the writing style of the author & questions/topics you wish to bring up.

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shoulda kept your mouth shut

@Polak Has it started now? Or can we post in our own time?

As for the book club wat is this

@PebbЛe The everyone tag does not discriminate, all will be notified.

is it over a stream or something?

Can you guys stop spamming the book club chat with non-book club spam

FUCKING

NORMIES

Do we have a pdf of the book I could download?

@The Bottle We read the Anatomy of Fascism (started about two weeks ago), and now we are discussing it.

^^rilath

You can find a pdf in a previous post on the announcements page.

Whoever brought the book to this server is a fine fellow

***IT WAS I ***

@PebbЛe

I need to go get food and stuff, but I'm looking forward to discuss this. How many of us have read it?

Just to get a rough idea

I read it.

that's two so far

@Lorenzo I am talking with Orchid about making a separate channel for the book club. Once we hash that out, we should post of responses to it in the channel. We can hop on a voice channel if we decide to.

I'm guessing Polak too

and Orchid

Oh cool @Polak

well, I need to do some stuff but I'll be free in an hour or so to really sit down and discuss stuff

Lorenzo, do you identify yourself as Fascist?

Is it a long read? I'm going to start it now, since I just joined in yesterday

I only identify myself as a traditionalist

I'm writing my own political essays, and I study extremism at university for my second thesis

We wont talk about it for a couple hours, text discussion will go on all day but we can do a voice chat later today, sometime around 8-10pm eastern.

The book we shall discuss was actually part of my bibliography for my last thesis

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