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Fiction§ The minds · fictional · England · Would-be dictator (satire)
Roderick Spode
The Black Shorts
Wodehouse's mockery of the fascist would-be leader.
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SocialistMarket
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LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social−72
TraditionalProgressive
Wodehouse's preposterous would-be dictator and his 'Black Shorts' — a comic deflation of the 1930s fascist leader, reminding us the type could be both menacing and absurd.
social
Reactionary blowhard traditionalism, played for farce.
economic
Vague corporatist bluster against the modern order.
governance
A pompous aspiring dictator and his amateur militia.
Notable for
- Wodehouse's fascist parody
- Leader of the 'Black Shorts'
- 'The Eulalie incident'
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