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robertlagranttoday at 8:53 AM1 replyview on HN

Fascism requires an authoritarian state. If you don't want the horrors of the 20th century, be it fascists with a world war, or socialism with even more deaths despite being in peacetime, you don't want authoritarianism to take hold, and you want to move power out of the state.


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FpUsertoday at 10:09 AM

>"you don't want authoritarianism to take hold"

I think the EU is well on its way of accomplishing just that. Not that it is unique in aspirations