How to be a Fascist: A Manual

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Democracy is difficult, flawed and unstable. It involves barely distinguishable political parties engaging in lengthy, overcomplicated and expensive decision-making processes. Engaging so many people with political issues seems to lead only to complexity and disagreement. So why bother? Doesn't fascism guarantee a more effective and efficient management of the state? In this short, bitingly ironic book, Michela Murgia explores the logic that is attracting increasing numbers of voters to right-wing populism. Ending with a 'fascistometer' to measure the reader's own authoritarian inclinations, How to be a Fascist is a refreshingly direct, polemical book that asks us to confront the fascist in our governments, in our societies and in our own minds.

Michela Murgia is an Italian novelist and politician. She is the winner of the Premio Campiello and the Mondello International Literary Prize.

Slim and punchy... throw[s] a light on our times and on how many of the political manoeuvres we see today in Western democracies resemble the practices of fascism in the 20th century * Irish Times *