Episode 64: Forever Fascism? Lessons from the novel Swastika Night

Ayurveda & Spirituality with Alakananda Ma · Aug 28, 2025

“They wanted to forget that there ever had been, in Europe, any other civilization at all. There was so much beauty they had not made, so many books they had not written, so many records of wars in which they had not fought, and so many ideas of human behavior which were anathema to them.” Katharine Burdekin, Swastika Night

Set in a stagnant male-dominated Fascist Empire seven hundred years into a dystopian future, Burdekin’s Swastika Night offers many insights into our world today. Women have undergone the Reduction and no longer live with men, they are mere soulless breeding stock kept in…