Erasing History

I just read an excellent book by Jason Stanley, Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future. Here are a few quotes:

--"Erasing history helps authoritarians because doing so allows them to misrepresent it as a single story, a single perspective" (p. xi).

--"At the heart of fascist ideology broadly, and Nazi ideology specifically, is this conspiracy about the replacement of a dominant group" (p. xv).

--"Wars are won by teachers." (Vladimir Putin) (p. 1)

--"Authoritarians have long understood that when they wish to change the political culture, they must begin by seizing control of education" (p. 23).

The book speaks truth to power and to the present.

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