The Tom Woods Show, episode 1474.

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Hi everybody. Tom Woods here. I am so happy to be welcoming back Jared Casey,

Professor Emeritus of Philosophy from University College Dublin. For the first time in a long time,

we had him on a bunch of times in a row, well, pretty close together, because of his book,

Freedom's Progress, with a question mark after it, a history of political thought. It's an enormous book, a close together, because of his book, Freedom's Progress, with a question mark after it,

a history of political thought. It's an enormous book, a great book, so important, so well done.

It needs to be widely known and, of course, widely read throughout the libertarian world, of course,

throughout the world in general, but really to inform our own people about the truth of the history of political thought, to really, really get in the weeds into the thinking of so many important figures who are in our

tradition or outside our tradition. So we've covered so many different topics. I mean,

we've gone as far back as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle in this volume, in our discussions on

this program. But today, we thought we would fast forward all the way to the 20th century and talk about fascism, which we've done on the show before. But, you know, Professor Casey always has something interesting to say about pretty much everything. So I wanted to pursue that conversation with him right now. So Professor Casey, welcome back.

Thank you, Tom. Well, I'm very glad to have you back. It's been a long time. We've discussed quite a few topics in freedom's progress, but it's such a huge book. It's more or less inexhaustible. So you and I thought we might talk about fascism today because you do devote some time to that as a political idea.

And it's particularly important to get this one right because a lot of people just use the word

fascism somewhat carelessly as a generic term of abuse. But it does, in fact, have a precise meaning.

So in order for us to dive into this discussion,

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