Posted on 10/26/2024 5:35:24 AM PDT by fruser1
9 page description of Fascism. Mussolini's political party was created and named as such by himself.
The name comes from Roman "fasces" which were a bunch of bundled rods representing the power of those holding them to carry out the will of the state including capital punishment. Such individuals in Roman times were known as "lictors".
The essence is that the individual serves the state which is totalitarian and may have a few or just one person in charge.
Hence, individuals unified in this advancement of state objectives are like the bundled rods with combined strength greater than a single stick.
"Problems" that socialism or trade-unions seek to solve are solved through guild or corporate systems in coordination with the state.
There is no voting. Ruler(s) with the "truist" intentions for the state rule absolutely.
The beliefs of the state are imposed on the individuals through these structures.
Highlights from the first few pages:
Page 1: "it sees not only the individual but the nation and the country; individuals and generations bound together by a moral law, with common traditions and a mission which suppressing the instinct for life closed in a brief circle of pleasure, builds up a higher life, founded on duty"
"Life, as conceived of by the Fascist, is serious, austere, and religious; all its manifestations are poised in a world sustained by moral forces and subject to spiritual responsibilities. The Fascist disdains an 'easy' life."
Page 2: "Fascism is therefore opposed to all individualistic abstractions based on eighteenth century materialism; and it is opposed to all Jacobinistic utopias and innovations"
"In politics Fascism aims at realism; in practice it desires to deal only with those problems which are the spontaneous product of historic conditions and which find or suggest their own solutions."
"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"
"Liberalism denied the State in the name of the individual; Fascism reasserts"
"The Fascist conception of the State is all embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism, is totalitarian"
"Fascism is therefore opposed to Socialism to which unity within the State (which amalgamates classes into a single economic and ethical reality) is unknown"
"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."
"Fascism is therefore opposed to that form of democracy which equates a nation to the majority"
"expressing itself in a people as the conscience and will of the few, if not, indeed, of one, and ending to express itself in the conscience and the will of the mass"
"it the State which creates the nation, conferring volition and therefore real life on a people made aware of their moral unity."
Page 3: "Fascism, in short, is not only a law-giver and a founder of institutions, but an educator and a promoter of spiritual life. It aims at refashioning not only the forms of life but their content — man, his character, and his faith. To achieve this propose it enforces discipline and uses authority, entering into the soul and ruling with undisputed sway. Therefore it has chosen as its emblem the Lictor’s rods, the symbol of unity, strength, and justice."
Ever seen pictures of Houdon’s statute of George Washington with the fasces? Pictures of depictions of Fasces on either side of the American flag in the House of Representatives? America was never intended to be a democracy.
Progressives, in how they want/wanted the government to be run (rule by the experts via state designated agencies) were joined in agreement with the Fascists. The Progressives pretend/pretended they were not Fascists, for “at least” their creation of the Fascist state - the administrative state - was done, one by one, with one-off legislative acts approved by elected officials. That method was to use democracy to dispense with democracy, case by case, thereafter.
Notice how the Progressives even turn the term democracy on its head, claiming calls critisizing their Fascist administrative state are “attacks on democracy”. This is what all their slanders saying Trump is a threat to “democracy” are all about.
I guess that's why it worked in Italy for only several weeks to months. Not even long enough time to judge whether it is a good or bad form of government.
Amazingly, calling someone a fascist has been a caustic and effective epithet, almost a curse, even though neither the caller, the receiver, nor anyone in earshot has any clue as to what it means.
But it sure puts people on the defensive.
Next time someone calls me a fascist, I guess I'm gonna say 'thanks'.
Somebody point out where I'm wrong here.
Hello.
As others point out, the fasces is/has been used for many government persons/offices. This is recognizing it roots in the Roman republic. It predates modern socialist groups. Indeed, as an MP in Vietnam I wore one on the shoulder patch of the 18th MP Bde.
My fraternity seal had crossed fasciae on it, as well.
BTW my late (wonderful person) father-in-law was in the Ivy Division (the 4th Infantry Division) in Viet Nam.
Thank you for your dedication and service at a difficult assignment.
The control freaks will never admit that reasonable people are able to mostly manage their own lives without them.
It’s interesting to note we haven’t had a functioning president for several years..and while things could definitely be a LOT better..the people are still, generally, going about their business. Working and taking care of their families..looking in on neighbors
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