Posted on 11/05/2015 3:22:59 PM PST by yoe
The Workers World Party is taking to New York City for a two-day conference to show how to spread socialism around the nation and world, and to explain why the time is ripe for such expansion.
The event, titled “Putting Socialist Revolution on the Table,†kicks off Saturday at the Shabazz Center and includes panel discussions on Black Lives Matter. It covers women and LGBT leadership, how to be a revolutionary and dispelling myths about China’s socialism. Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/11/socialists-gather-in-new-york-to-plot-political-overhaul/#DsvqM6oKKKGLIiGE.99
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Until CW-II.
In his authoritative definition of Fascism (he coined the term,) Mussolini rejects classical liberalism because it makes the individual primary instead of the collective (specifically, the state--fascism is state socialism mixed with a limited free market.) Yes, he rejects Marxism and the Marxian doctrine of historic materialism. And yes, he rejects pure democracy, and argues for a class-based society. But he argues for "authoritarian democracy," where those who rule are expected to do so based on the greater good for the greater number (sound familiar?) Just like modern state socialists, he argues for the necessity of having the state regulate the individual and the market for socialist goals and objectives, using socialist justifications:
"Fascism is therefore opposed to all individualistic abstractions based on eighteenth century materialism; ..."
"Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State, which stands for the conscience and the universal, will of man as a historic entity (11). It is opposed to classical liberalism which arose as a reaction to absolutism and exhausted its historical function when the State became the expression of the conscience and will of the people. Liberalism denied the State in the name of the individual; Fascism reasserts the rights of the State as expressing the real essence of the individual (12). And if liberty is to be the attribute of living men and not of abstract dummies invented by individualistic liberalism, then Fascism stands for liberty, and for the only liberty worth having, the liberty of the State and of the individual within the State (13). The Fascist conception of the State is all embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value.
No individuals or groups (political parties, cultural associations, economic unions, social classes) outside the State (15). Fascism is therefore opposed to Socialism to which unity within the State (which amalgamates classes into a single economic and ethical reality) is unknown, and which sees in history nothing but the class struggle. Fascism is likewise opposed to trade unionism as a class weapon. *But when brought within the orbit of the State, Fascism recognizes the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade unionism,* giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which divergent interests are coordinated and harmonized in the unity of the State (16)." Source: Mussolini - THE DOCTRINE OF FASCISM
That's essentially modern China. And essentially the way most nations are actually governed, regardless of their marketing propaganda. Mussolini, at least, was honest.
NOT ME!
The era of saying the ‘era of big government is over,’ is over.
KMAA, commie ****suckers.
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