Book review: How Fascism Works
“Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels once declared, ‘This will always remain one of the best jokes of democracy, that it gave its deadly enemies the means by which it was destroyed.’” (J. Stanley, How Fascism Works, ch. 2)
Goebbels wasn’t the first one to make this point. Plato, in the Republic, proposed a ranking of systems of government that went something like this: