The Times framed peasant communists as stupid folk needing fascist remedy

Evidence

And in 1924 Th e Times praised Fascism as a solution to the ambitions of the “Bolshevist peasantry” in “Novara, Montara, and Alessandria” and “the brutal stupidity of these folk.” Th e article continued, “For two years and a half, agricultural strikes, so virulent that the crops were left to perish in the ground, were the order of the day. Th e petty leaders of the Communists, more stupid even than their followers, desired to make here the fi rst experiments in socalled collective management” (“Th e Dissident Fascisti,” Th e Times, June 17, 1924, 15). — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1723

Categorization

• XREF: Shows the class contempt behind elite endorsement of fascism—parallels how Western media elsewhere demean peasant and worker resistance. — connects to: Anonymous government-funded researchers fed the Times a fabricated Black revolutionary threat — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 543; The Times’ Islam feature ignored the ijtihad-versus-taqlid interpretive debate entirely. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam: How the Media and the…, 247; Jackie Curtis announced nonbinary identity to the Times in 1969-70. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 1529 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The Times framed Islam solely through threat to American interests #corroborates (0.90) — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 242
• Anonymous government-funded researchers fed the Times a fabricated Black revolutionary threat #expands (0.85) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 543
• The Times’ Islam feature ignored the ijtihad-versus-taqlid interpretive debate entirely. #exemplifies (0.85) — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 247
• Jackie Curtis announced nonbinary identity to the Times in 1969-70. #exemplifies (0.80) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1529
• A 2017 Times exposé toppled Weinstein and triggered broader accountability #exemplifies (0.80) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 467