“The continuum from Carlyle to Mussolini to Franco to Donald Trump”
I’m going to have to do quick searches from now on to see if on-line essays sneak gems like this near the end.
Fascist is akin to racist to the idiots on the left. They throw it out and see if it will stick. They don’t even know the meaning of the word. A fascist is a leftist. Idiots.
Malthus deserves as much credit for the fascist and socialist movements due to his beliefs that population growth would eventually outstrip society’s ability to provide resources.
He realized that you couldn't turn back the clock to restore absolute monarchy, the power of the nobility, or the Church, so he supported what he thought was the next best thing: an age of military and political "heroes."The same was also true for early Fascists and proto-Fascists.
Those who make the claim that Fascism is a leftwing ideology miss the crucial point that the inspiration for Fascist ideology came from those who (like Carlyle) reject laissez-faire and classical liberalism from a reactionary rather than a radical perspective.
“Carlyle the Proto-Fascist...”
Stopped right there.