Fascist

September 23rd, 2010 Fear, Language, Law, Libertarians

2 comments to Fascist

• George Orwell

  October 2, 2010 at 2:21 pm · Reply

  It seems like someone has read my essay “What is Fascism?”

  It will be seen that, as used, the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley’s broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else.

  • Jay

    August 16, 2011 at 3:16 am · Reply

    Orwell’s humor reminds me of Mencken.