Posted on 10/26/2024 5:35:24 AM PDT by fruser1
Discussions about all other "-ism"s are distractions. Disparaging reckless and irresponsible government programs as one "-ism" vs another sends folks down rabbit holes of how you actually define the "ism" in question.
Hence it seems better to me to not waste your time trying to figure out what ism a bad policy falls under, but simply how it departs from American Exceptionalism.
Every dime has one.
Thanks.
Probably 99% of the people using this term have no idea what it means, except it’s bad….
Wild-eyed leftist professors never like to acknowledge that the fasci were shown as three sticks: Government, corporations and laborers. Fascism was quite intentionally self-promoted as what happens when government controls labor and corporations. It was also the “third way” between communism and capitalism; Blair and especially Clinton plagiarized Mussolini like nuts.
Well said!
Yes, and all other “isms” are, in varrying degrees,some form of authoritarianism.
Fascism is socialism that keeps a veneer of capitalism around for its use. When things are great govt takes credit. When things are bad esp. in the economy, govt blames companies and may even nationalize some.
BTTT
The fasces was replaced with a torch with the introduction of the Roosevelt dime in 1946.
If I recall correctly there are 2 fasces mounted on the wall on each side of the National Ensign which is directly behind the Speakers chair in the Congressional chamber.
“If I recall correctly there are 2 fasces mounted on the wall on each side of the National Ensign which is directly behind the Speakers chair in the Congressional chamber.”
The Peoples house
https://images.app.goo.gl/3vhPjevzmFwkFmjh6
Fascist govt apparatchiks and bureaucrats say to private citizens and business owners ( including corporate owned media):
Nice life and business you got there.
Be a shame if anything were to happen to it.
From : https://romeonrome.com/2016/01/mussolinis-architectural-legacy-in-rome/
The fasces symbol still graces the arms of Lincoln’s chair in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.. It’s on the emblem of the Knights of Columbus. It’s included in the statue of George Washington in front of New York City’s Federal Hall National Memorial. It also flanks the American Flag behind the Speaker’s Podium of the chamber of the United States House of Representatives (as seen in the photo below).
Fascism, socialism, and communism are all the same ideology. They all involve an all powerful, totalitarian government and no individualism.
Hitler and Stalin were not on opposite sides because their ideologies differed. They were on opposite sides because they both wanted the same thing, and both could not have it.
Bkmk
Yep. authoritarianism Requiring use of force. What manner of force becomes the question.
Italian fascism was socialism without the exclusion of Italian nationalism, catholic religion, and international party control.
Thank you for reposting this. I found this link earlier in the week and posted it then. Good for your synopisis for the weekend crowd. This PDF needs to be available for all to study and contrast against American Exceptionalism.
I didn’t know that. It’s been many years since I could actually see one of those little buggers.
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