> [!metadata] Fascism: A Warning > [author:: Madeleine Albright] > [cite-key:: albright2019FascismWarning] > [date-published:: 2019] > [genre:: Political Science] > [keywords:: [[Fascism]], [[Adolf Hitler]], [[Benito Mussolini]], [[Francisco Franco]], [[Joseph Stalin]], [[World War I]], [[World War II]], [[Charles Chaplin]], [[Great Dictator, The (1940)|The Great Dictator (1940)]], [[Eva Perón]], [[Juan Perón]], [[Hugo Chavez]], [[Fidel Castro]]] > > **(description-short:: A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today’s world, written by one of the most admired public servants in American history, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state.)** > > (description:: A Fascist, observed [[Madeleine Albright]], “is someone who claims to speak for a whole nation or group, is utterly unconcerned with the rights of others, and is willing to use violence and whatever other means are necessary to achieve the goals he or she might have.”<br/><br/>The twentieth century was defined by the clash between democracy and Fascism, a struggle that created uncertainty about the survival of human freedom and left millions dead. Given the horrors of that experience, one might expect the world…)