“right wing”???
That definition is by leftist fascists.
Ping me to this thread tomorrow, I have links on the home machine that explain why the Nazis and Fascists are Leftists. They were Socialists believing in Big Government through and through.
In the meanwhile, see the Hayek quote on my FR profile page. It’s the 3rd one down, two paragraphs.
a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.
Google's definition does not surprise me.Liberals employ more fascist philosophy then the right, because disagreeing with a liberal is always tantamount to hate, racism, xenophobia, sexism, misogynist, and every other despicable descriptor available in the lexicon.
I don’t know how old your children are, but I had my 6th grader read “The Red Scarf Girl.” It is about the cultural revolution in China. We had some great discussions about government control over citizens, and how in this instance it started with the children because they were easily manipulated.
The etymology of the word fascism comes from “to bundle” as “to bundle a group.” If bundling a group isn’t the modern day Democratic Party, I don’t know what is.
The simplest way to explain fascism to them is to compare it to socialism/communism . . .
In Fascism there is a private sector but the government controls your strategy, not tactics. In Communism they control everything.
The entire economy under fascism is geared towards large corporations, entirely unionized work forces and government conspiring to keep things completely in place until consensus changes.
Small business is completely frowned upon since it is disruptive to the status quo.
Fazcism is not a right wing phenomenon. Insomuch as it is an opponent of Royalism which is, itself, an authoritarian power system, it is a left wing phenomenon.
Read “Liberal Fascism”. Fascism is a form of (big government) socialism. Big government policies are a component of the left, not the right which believed limited government. If you look at the Nazi’s and Mussolini’s actual policies, they were socialist policies. Even a lot of college professors get this wrong (fortunately mine had it right and explained why).
This isn’t exact, or in Italian, but
“Everything inside of the state, everything for the state, nothing outside of the state.”
From one of the originators of Fascism. Gramsci, I think. Who also coined the phrase “the long march through the institutuions”.
See the people out in the street rioting? They are trying to overturn an election their side lost with violence. That is fascism in action,.
Short explanation:
“Here’s what we believe. Here’s what we say you can say or do. Only say and do these things or we’ll scream at you. Fail that, and a mob of us will beat you or kill you. It is for the best of all.”
Try this.
It’s only 10 minutes and excellent.
Different forms of Government.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDS1OHk7Lf8
To be succinct a system where government runs businesses without owning them by threat of governmental force. For example today’s American progressive-uni-party.
The definition is BS. Leftist Propaganda.
Fascism is “National Socialism” vs. Communist “International Socialism.” Both are totalitarian. Both tightly control the economies.
If I remember this correctly, the root word for fascism is Italian, “fascisti,” which is the word or a variation of a word fir a bundle of sticks. It represents collectivism, and the image was on fascist Italy’s tanks and aircraft during WW2. Collectivism is certainly not an ideal of today’s right wing.
Fascism is a socialist, centralized power like Marxism but it hates and mass murders different people. Hitler’s Germany was fascist in competition with Germany’s Marxist forces. Marxists kill people who don’t think and believe (religious people) like they want them to; fascists kill targeted ethnic groups. Marxists have murdered more innocent people than Hitler and other fascists ever dreamed of killing.
First explain that fascism (national socialism) is just another form of socialism. Internationalist socialists bitterly reject this idea, but it is the truth.
Internationalist socialism and communism are distinguishable because they want to force all people to be “equal” in all ways; with things like individuality, gender, intelligence, experience, talent, personality, ethics and morality reduced “to the lowest common denominator.” They crave “generic” people living in primitive poverty, because wealth discriminates, and they want people to have nothing unique about them, and all living solely to serve government.
Since trying to force people into this mold is very frustrating, and doesn’t work, internationalist socialists decide to destroy, even kill, those who do not conform to what they crave to be the “ideal”.
They hate religion, unique cultures, history, ethnicity, nationalism, marriage and the nuclear family, excellence in anything, and utter abject failure, which they still prefer to excellence.
They are repugnant people, who are very gifted at subverting organizations to work for their cause, and they quickly revert to violence and hatred against those who disagree with them.
Fascism (national socialism) disagrees with internationalist socialism in several important ways. To begin with, they *honor* individuality and uniqueness and families, they see nations and peoples as having an inherent purpose and reason to exist apart from other nations, and while they do not embrace cultural and historical truths, they tend to idealize them to the point of fantasy to encourage national pride, even arrogance.
They see ethnicity at its best when it is not cross-bred with other varieties of ethnicity. They do not admire peoples or nations that are racially blended, but do admire nations that have maintained their uniqueness.
They are just as militarily aggressive as are the internationalist socialists, and while they are willing to strongly abuse individuals who disagree with them, they are hesitant to abuse groups of people that rise up against them in their nation.
Comparing the two major varieties of socialism, several conclusions can be reached. First and foremost, they both suffer from fantastic idealism, for which they are willing to destroy and kill to achieve. Neither group respects republican-democracy, equality before the law, opinions that disagree with them, and they both crave radical solutions to problems simple and complex.
They are both convinced of the inevitability of their philosophy, and demand that all institutions be geared to advance it, not permitting dissent or argument against them.
They also watched each other to pick up ideas they could use to further their goals. Nationalization and collectivization by the internationalist socialists proved to be utter failures early on, though they insisted on forcing them to try and work, which they never did, even 70 years later. They still insist they are the only way to do things.
The fascists (national socialists) picked up on this idea of failure, so modified their economic policies against nationalization and collectivization to instead just have government direct the outcomes they wanted from business, and let the businessmen figure out how to accomplish it, sometimes called the “public-private partnership”. Which worked somewhat better, but still is far less efficient than market forces alone.
The bottom line to all this is that both philosophies, while similar, are both failures, despite endless efforts to make them work. They both cause destruction and violence, and hurt and kill people. And while their supporters will endlessly lie about them to make them sound good, they are both abhorrent and should be discarded to make the world a better place.
Here, I’ll put in on the thread, too.
I strongly recommend Jonah Goldberg’s book Liberal Fascism (just as I am strongly annoyed with the #nevertrump attitudes he displayed during this last election cycle, which I hope he has reconsidered).
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change
https://www.amazon.com/Liberal-Fascism-American-Mussolini-Politics/dp/0767917189
For the topic of why the Nazis were/are Leftists, here are some links:
http://reason.com/archives/2007/08/15/hitlers-handouts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1143131/posts