Becoming a fascist

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How to Give In to Hatred and Fear and Live Happily

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Synopsis

The first stage of fascist conversion therapy is to stop thinking too much, to let fear take hold within. Then comes resilience. Renouncing our convictions. At that point—after destroying ourselves from within, just as the far right does to democracy—we will be ready to embrace the new ideology and our new leaders.

Mark Fortier decides to drift away for the sake of survival. He analyzes the myriad ways in which the left has committed political suicide. He examines the rise of carnival-like leaders such as Trump and Milei, and the role of Giorgia Meloni and Italy, the eternal “vanguard” of the “reactionary rear guard.” He studies the death of language and the rise of verbal violence.

"Becoming Fascist" is an ironic and provocative essay on the crisis of the liberal system. It begins with who we are and what we are willing to give up for the common good.

Details

Publication year: October 2026
Translated by Lorenzo Vetta
Number of pages: 176 pages
Size: 14 x 21 cm
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9791281631939

Author

Mark Fortier is a Canadian essayist, journalist, and publisher from Quebec. A sociologist by training, with a
Master’s degree in sociology and a PhD in Hegelian theory
he studied, he taught at UQAM and Laval University.
He worked as a journalist for Temps fou, Place publique, and Ici Montréal. He is part of the editorial team at Lux éditeur (a publishing house founded in 1995, specializing in the history of the Americas and libertarian political thought) and has been a member of the editorial board of Lettres québécoises since 2022. In addition to Diventare fascista, he is the author of Theory/Theatre and Mélancolies identitaires (2019), and won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Du diesel dans les veines (2021, with Serge Bouchard).

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