Fascism is with us, if only we will see it

From: The Independent - London | Date: October 9, 1995| Author: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto | Copyright information

"It's really fascist to say, 'I love you'," says a character in the cult film Barcelona. You can see what she meant. A declaration of love is an attempt to control. It ties bonds of obligation. It snaps emotional snares. It represents a claim to authority over the body of the beloved - the power of the slave-driver and tyrant throughout the ages.

The audience, of course, is meant to laugh the line off as a wobblingly flabby abuse of language, typical of the sloppiness which dilutes pol...

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