Posted on 07/31/2017 6:51:41 AM PDT by wtd
The definition of fascism has recently been changed to say that fascism is a right wing ideology. I did some research to find the correct and true definition of the words fascist and fascism.
Dictionaries post dated 2009 have the new liberal version of the definition of 'fascist'
So, I ventured to seek out reference books I keep here at home to see what was printed 'back in the day'.
Fascinating to discover that the term "fascism" isn't considered a legal term which would be found in my copy of the Fifth edition of Black's Law Dictionary published in 1979.
However, my copy of Webster's Third New International Dictionary published the following in 1966:
Hitler hated smoking, encouraged abortion and eugenics (as did every liberal favourite, Margaret Sanger), enacted gun controls and was an environmentalist... Does that sound like a right winger?
At heart Hitler was a Socialist and like all good Socialist, he thought government (led by himself of course) should control every aspect of peoples lives, from their morals and beliefs to their daily routines and living conditions. Hitler hated Communism because they hated and threatened Socialism, and he hated Capitalism and Jews being the most obvious symbol of Capitalist success, suffered the most from his hatred of big business and successful entrepreneurship. To point at Hitler and claim he was right winger is completely ridiculous.
Socialism can only flourish through dictatorship, because if people can choose their own direction through regular elections they usually reject Socialism.
Canada is a good example... As Socialist as Canada is, we have never elected an outwardly Socialist government to run the country and while several provincial provinces have elected socialist parties, they are usually roundly rejected at the first opportunity to do so in the next election. Serving as one term regrettable mistakes that reinforce Canada’s refusal (thus far) to elect a federal Socialist government.
Trudeau is probably the most socialist PM to ever be elected, even more so than his father, but even his father was not as outwardly left-wing as Just not Ready. My guess is that his term will be singular in nature given the foolish and amateur way he has led the country.
Unfortunately, for some confounded reason Canada has ended up with several Socialist Supreme Court Justices running our judicial system. And most of them were put in place by a very good Conservative, Stephen Harper our former prime minister... So how we solve that problem is perplexing, especially if we have some constitutional crises and they need to decide who gets to run the government.
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Man, are you daft? That’s Ferris Bueller.
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Dictatorship<--------------Democracy<-----------------------------------------------------Republic-------------Anarchy
Total Control--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Total Freedom
Yeah, he's getting me out of summer school.
Although our modern socialists' promise of greater freedom is genuine and sincere, in recent years observer after observer has been impressed by the unforeseen consequences of socialism, the extraordinary similarity in many respects of the conditions under 'communism' and 'fascism'. As the writer Peter Drucker expressed it in 1939,'the complete collapse of the belief in the attainability of freedom and equality through Marxism has forced Russia to travel the same road toward a totalitarian society of unfreedom and inequality which Germany has been following. Not that communism and fascism are essentially the same. Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion, and it has proved as much an illusion in Russia as in pre-Hitler Germany.’No less significant is the intellectual outlook of the rank and file in the communist and fascist movements in Germany before 1933. The relative ease with which a young communist could be converted into a Nazi or vice versa was well known, best of all to the propagandists of the two parties. The communists and Nazis clashed more frequently with each other than with other parties simply because they competed for the same type of mind and reserved for each other the hatred of the heretic. Their practice showed how closely they are related. To both, the real enemy, the man with whom they had nothing in common, was the liberal of the old type. While to the Nazi the communist and to the communist the Nazi, and to both the socialist, are potential recruits made of the right timber, they both know that there can be no compromise between them and those who really believe in individual freedom.What is promised to us as the Road to Freedom is in fact the Highroad to Servitude. For it is not difficult to see what must be the consequences when democracy embarks upon a course of planning. The goal of the planning will be described by some such vague term as 'the general welfare'. There will be no real agreement as to the ends to be attained, and the effect of the people's agreeing that there must be central planning, without agreeing on the ends, will be rather as if a group of people were to commit themselves to take a journey together without agreeing where they want to go: with the result that they may all have to make a journey which most of them do not want at all. ____________— F A Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (May, 1945 Reader’s Digest Condensed Version)
The appropriate axis is Tyranny - Anarchy.
Left - Right are arcane terms with roots in 18th century French politics!
Paperback 1994 Merriam Webster Dictionary 
Hardcover, Scholastic Children's Dictionary, 1996
Paperback 2001 American Heritage Dictionary 
This looks like there should be a good market for the older,copyrighted dictionaries if you can’t trust the new ones. What else have they changed in the new dictionaries?
BTW, a tyranny - anarchy axis may readily omit the axis of good and evil.
The ecistence ov the Comintern and the actions of the CPUSA would contradict that Stalin had foregone internationalization. He did in Russia emphasize the Rodina but the goal of int’l communism never ended.
ah ha ha....it’s worse than that. I thought it was a “Degree” Deodorant ad.
I had read in my dad’s old dictionary from the 40’s that fascism is a form of socialism were the government controls by not ownership of private property but by strict regulation of it.
Sounds like Bammy.
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