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Well sure, but at least the trains run on time!
That's a sick joke, for those of you who didn't get it.
One quibble:
<i>11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts - Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is openly attacked. </i>
The exception to this is when the expression or art supports the underlying goals of the regime, when it is typically coopted and made mainstream. The classic example is Modernist British poet Ezra Pound, who produced a LARGE volume of pro-Mussolini propaganda during World War II. One of his finest works, The Cantos, was produced, in part, in jail after he was charged with treason.
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