Defeating Fascism does not guarantee freedom will replace it.

Evidence

In Germany, Fascism won the day with a crassly xenophobic, collectivist ideology which was hostile to culture. Now that it is laying the whole world waste, the nations must fight against it; there is no other way out. But when all is over there is nothing to prove that a spirit of freedom will spread across Europe; its nations may become just as xenophobic, pseudocollectivistic, and hostile to culture as Fascism once was when they had to fight against it. The downfall of Fascism will not necessarily lead to a movement of the avalanche. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 195

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A startlingly pessimistic refusal of easy post-war hope that anticipates Arendt and Cold War anxieties about totalitarianism and democracy — dense enough to sit with.
• XREF: connects to: Ending domination would fulfill Fascism’s lie by contradicting it. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 159; Anti-Semitism functions as an interchangeable, replaceable programmatic label under Fascism; Defeating fascism left its root causes intact beneath a ticket mentality — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 703 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Defeating fascism left its root causes intact beneath a ticket mentality #corroborates (0.90) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 703
• Volunteer squads could not defeat fascism because the state backed it. #qualifies (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2285
• Dictatorships do not make peace and end only through defeat or collapse #expands (0.70)