The Ten Steps to Fascism
  
Let us be reminded that before there is a final solution, there must
be a first solution, a second one, even a third. The move toward a
final solution is not a jump. It takes one step, then another, then
another.

 1) Construct an internal enemy, as both focus and diversion.

 2) Isolate and demonize that enemy by unleashing and protecting the
    utterance of overt and coded name-calling and verbal abuse. Employ
    ad hominem attacks as legitimate charges against that enemy.

 3) Enlist and create sources and distributors of information who are
    willing to reinforce the demonizing process because it is
    profitable, because it grants power and because it works.

 4) Palisade all art forms; monitor, discredit or expel those that
    challenge or destabilize processes of demonization and deification.

 5) Subvert and malign all representatives of and sympathizers with
    this constructed enemy.

 6) Solicit, from among the enemy, collaborators who agree with and can
    sanitize the dispossession process.

 7) Pathologize the enemy in scholarly and popular mediums; recycle,
    for example, scientific racism and the myths of racial superiority
    in order to naturalize the pathology.

 8) Criminalize the enemy. Then prepare, budget for and rationalize the
    building of holding arenas for the enemy — especially its males and
    absolutely its children.

 9) Reward mindlessness and apathy with monumentalized entertainments
    and with little pleasures, tiny seductions, a few minutes on
    television, a few lines in the press, a little pseudo-success, the
    illusion of power and influence, a little fun, a little style, a
    little consequence.

10) Maintain, at all costs, silence.