Is Fascism Right Or Left?

The Coach's Team ^ | 12/14/17 | Dinesh D'Souza

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While I agree regarding totalitarianism being bad (barring of course instances where God himself is totalitarian). I’m not entirely sure if I agree on individualism regarding whether it’s a good thing. After all, Jean Paul Sartre and the ACLU advocated for the “absolute freedom of the individual” and claimed it to be the highest good, yet he was left-wing and not even remotely a good person. You can see it here:

https://web.archive.org/web/19980119060706/http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/1996/feb96/focus.html

“When did these ideas begin to infiltrate the ALA? And who brought them in? During the social turmoil of the late sixties, the Office of Intellectual Freedom in the ALA headquarters in Chicago became very important in the making of policy. Around this time, Judith Krug began her tenure as director of that office, and in 1970 forged strong links between the ALA and the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU functioned under a philosophy of nihilism/individualism since its founding by Roger Baldwin after the turn of the century. For a time in the 1970s, Ms. Krug served simultaneously as ALA Intellectual Freedom Director and as a board member of the ACLU, which has given her several awards. The ACLU, according to George Grant’s 1989 study, believes that children should have the same rights as adults, that pornography should be protected by the Constitution, that the First Amendment’s free speech clause implies a right to receive information, and that the smallest limitation of any speech or expression will automatically lead to totalitarian repression.

“The fourth source [for the American Library Association’s radicalization] is Jean-Paul Sartre, the French existentialist who was so fashionable in the 1940s. He held the absolute freedom of the individual to be the highest good and yet saw all values as relative. His idea that there are no rules by which we must govern our conduct dispenses handily with Madison’s idea that the Ten Commandments are necessary for peaceful self-government.”