The fascists of the future will be called anti-fascists." - Meaning and context.">
According to researchhttp://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/04/anti-fascism/, it has been attributed to Churchill since the 21st century. A similar variation has been attributed to Huey Long a year after he died, but it's unclear if he said it either.http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/9-quotes-from-winston-churchill-that-are-totally-fake-1790585636
• Variants: The Fascists of the future will be the anti-fascists.
• The Swiss author François Bondy attributed a similar quote to Ignazio Silone: This reminded me of what Ignazio Silone said in 1945 soon after he returned to Italy from his Zurich exile: "The Fascism of tomorrow will never say 'I am Fascism.' It will say: 'I am anti-Fascism.'"François Bondy (1976), "European Notebook", Encounter, vol. 47, p. 51. Alternatively quoted as: When I met him in Geneva on the day of his scheduled return home after the long exile in Switzerland, Silone said abruptly: "If at a future moment fascism will return, it will not be so stupid as to say: 'I am fascism.' It will say: 'I am antifascism.'"François Bondy (1979), "Ignazio Silone: In Memoriam", The Washington Quarterly, vol. 2, issue 2.
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The fascists of the future will be called anti-fascists.

— Winston Churchill

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The fascists of the future will be called anti-fascists." in the context of "According to researchhttp://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/04/anti-fascism/, it has been attributed to Churchill since the 21st century. A similar variation has been attributed to Huey Long a year after he died, but it's unclear if he said it either.http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/9-quotes-from-winston-churchill-that-are-totally-fake-1790585636
• Variants: The Fascists of the future will be the anti-fascists.
• The Swiss author François Bondy attributed a similar quote to Ignazio Silone: This reminded me of what Ignazio Silone said in 1945 soon after he returned to Italy from his Zurich exile: "The Fascism of tomorrow will never say 'I am Fascism.' It will say: 'I am anti-Fascism.'"François Bondy (1976), "European Notebook", Encounter, vol. 47, p. 51. Alternatively quoted as: When I met him in Geneva on the day of his scheduled return home after the long exile in Switzerland, Silone said abruptly: "If at a future moment fascism will return, it will not be so stupid as to say: 'I am fascism.' It will say: 'I am antifascism.'"François Bondy (1979), "Ignazio Silone: In Memoriam", The Washington Quarterly, vol. 2, issue 2." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill KG OM CH TD FRS PC (November 30, 1874 – January 24, 1965) was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was a Sandhurst-educated soldier, a Nobel Prize-winning writer and historian, a prolific painter, and one of the longest-serving politicians in British history. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955, though he was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.