Posted on 10/08/2025 1:04:56 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Even if all the spiffy new AI search tools insist otherwise.
There is a constant harangue from left-wing politicians and complicit media that Trump and his administration are fascists and that MAGA, ICE, and anyone else they don’t like are Nazis.
When you ask Gemini A.I., Duck A.I., and Wikipedia, “Is fascism right-wing?”, the answer is yes; fascism is considered right-wing. Co-pilot says yes, it is right-wing, and then says it has left-wing aspects as well, and then concludes that it is right-wing. What?
A Wikipedia Overview via A.I. comes up with this: “Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology ...”
Dinesh D’Souza said on a PragerU video that the Nazi regime was redefined after WWII from left-wing to right-wing. His reasoning, summarized, is that political and academic leaders wanted to ensure that their collectivist (socialist) beliefs were separated from the horrors of Hitler’s regime. It appears the redefining was successful.
Emmanuel Rincón wrote “There’s No Denying the Socialist Roots of Fascism” in 2021. This article looks at fascism not as a list of words, but through the actions of the fathers of fascism: Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile. Together they wrote the “doctrine of fascism.” Gentile said, “Fascism is a form of socialism; in fact, it is its most viable form.” The Fascist Party broke with the Italian Socialist Party, but mainly in rhetoric. They moved steadily toward the collective. The fascist Italian government first nationalized the arms industry. Private property in practice was eliminated. They did not own the means of production or fully control the economy, but they dominated it. Businesses were run by individuals, but to keep that business, the business had to serve the state.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
1. Who owns the means of production.
The Fascists effectively controlled the means of production by controlling corporate leadership through coercion and outright threats and intimidation. Corporations could be privately held, but only as long as they took direction from the Nazis. This would place the Nazis slightly to the right of the Communists, but from our free-market republic viewpoint, the Nazis were almost indistinguishable to us from the Communists.
Fine, I can agree that globalism + capitalism serves Marxists goal of defeating capitalism, but capitalism is the antithesis of Marxism.
Capitalism needs STRONG borders. Without borders capitalism burns itself up and the world with it.
Maybe the equation should be:
Capitalism + Globalism => Marxist goals
Giovanni Gentile was assassinated by a Communist. I suppose the assassin didn’t want Giovanni talking about socialism any more.
Not one? Death Of Stalin. A comedy of terrors
Capitalism + Globalism => Marxist goals
Yes I can agree with that as well.
Guess I was ahead of the game.
probably 20 years ago I read Goebbels diary, he was the brains behind Hitler.
Anyway he clearly defined Nazism as “ a new kind of socialism”.
They should have both. Hollywood is filled with golden calf Jews. Don’t give them cover by saying it’s most Jews. It’s that group.
They both prioritize the State over GOD and man.
All of the “isms“ are collectivist in nature. Whether it is Communism, Socialism, Progressivism, Nazism, Fascism, or any other ideology that shares elements from two or more of these, they are all collectivist. I don’t care what uniform they wear, what flag they fly, or what particular phrases are there favorites, they all share one thing in common: the rights of the individual mean nothing. Oh, they will give lip service to individual rights, but in the end, the only thing that matters is what the people in charge want, and everyone else be damned. This can be something as simple as the right to seek employment, or it can mean imprisonment for almost anything, and it can mean being shot in the back of the head and buried in some forest somewhere. These ideologies, together, have buried over 100 million people in just the 20th century.
The only thing opposing them is the ideology of individualism. To some extent, the idea of a democracy, in which each person has a vote, comes close to this goal. However, in my opinion, the only form of government that actually achieves this goal is a constitutional republic, in which Even a solid majority of the voters where their representatives cannot take away certain basic rights from individuals, no matter what. The single country that best embodies the philosophy of individualism is the United States of America, which has stood as a beacon to the rest of humanity since it’s founding.
Eh?
The Party in communism is indeed the hierarchy, with the “General Secretary” (dictator) at the top. Same side of the pole.
That’s splitting hairs. Fascism is effectively taken from Lenin’s New Economic Policy.
That’s exactly why I used the word “owns” instead of “controls”. Sometimes my brevity leaves room for different conclusions.
At the beginning of the USSR, there were anarchists that regarded themselves as communists. They were eventually crushed by the Bolshevik socialists.
The Founding Fathers did believe in law, namely God’s law.
God does not exist—religion in science is an absurdity, in practice an immorality and in men a disease. …Indistinguishable from communism. 100 percent left wing.
— Mussolini, 1924
Fascism establishes the real equality of individuals before the nation… the object of the regime in the economic field is to ensure higher social justice for the whole of the Italian people… What does social justice mean? It means work guaranteed, fair wages, decent homes; it means the possibility of continuous evolution and improvement. Nor is this enough. It means that the workers must enter more and more intimately into the productive process and share its necessary discipline… As the past century was the century of capitalist power, the twentieth century is the century of power and glory of labor.
— Mussolini, 1935
When the war is over, in the world’s social revolution that will be followed by a more equitable distribution of the earth’s riches, due account must be kept of the sacrifices and of the discipline maintained by the Italian workers. The Fascist revolution will make another decisive step to shorten social distances. …
— Mussolini, 1941
If you own but do not control, do you truly own?
The socialists say the same thing, that “socialist property” is “owned” by all the people, but obviously controlled by the tyrannical government forces.
Bkmk
true. but the spectrums are absolute. they can call themselves anything, it is what they are that defines where on the scale they fall. just as the left lables us fascists, it doesn’t make us fascists.
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