What is Fascism?

Noah Berlatsky

What Is Fascism?

Fascism is a bundle of sticks shoved up their own stick ass.

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Fascism is Heidegger assigning his own stupid book.

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Fascism is a gray wall leaking ugly mustaches.

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Fascism is one enormous pure buttock.

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Fascism is selling you an orange Bible in which every “begat” is replaced with dollar signs.

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Fascism is a fucking cop.

Noah Berlatsky (he/him) is a freelance writer in Chicago. His full-length collections are Not Akhmatova (Ben Yehuda Press, 2024), Gnarly Thumbs (Anxiety Press, 2025), Meaning Is Embarrassing (Ranger, 2025) and Brevity (Nun Prophet, 2025). He has chapbooks published and/or forthcoming with the Origami Poems Project, above/ground, and LJMcD Communications.

Bluesky: @nberlat.bsky.social