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To elaborate in detail - Guild Socialism involves the government protecting established companies, putting them in charge of deciding which competitors can join them, dividing up sectors. Ostensibly this is to prevent wasteful redundancy, but in practice, it results in cronyism, high consumer prices and monopoly.
Trade Union Syndicalism involves government forcing the labor force to join unions that have financial and political ties to certain government officials. The given reason is to protect workers, but in practice, it makes it so the ability to join the workforce depends upon connections. Employers have no choice but to hire politically connected union labor. Wages are set by syndicates rather than supply-and-demand. Labor surpluses -- viz, high unemployment -- are inevitable. This in turn, erodes self-sufficiency, swells the numbers of those dependent upon taxpayer-funded benes, which increases the power of apparatchiks who thus control a larger percentage of the general population's most basic and vital needs. Hence more are invested in increased taxes and larger government.
Futurism is a form of Utopianism in which those who are Gifted [by political connection] design an ideal society and enforce it with the coercive power of government. Social engineering is a key aspect, with politicians and bureaucrats using the carrot and stick to modify the general population to either fit into the Grand Design or be eliminated.
Does this sound conservative to anyone? Or does it more resemble the New Deal, Great Society, Obamanation, etc.?
Article and post BUMP! Thanks, walford.
Did you write that comment, or is it a continuation of Dinesh’s article?
Very informative. Thank you.
I think your explanation is exceptionally well done.
“Fascist” seems to be key word for Marxists.
My Father’s battalion was sent into Berlin after the Russians captured it. They were among the first.
Daddy mentioned to me that for the first couple of weeks, every time they would meet a Russian soldier, he would shout out, “Death To Fascists”.
The American soldiers for the most part had no idea what they were talking about.
I have admired Dinesh D’Souza’s work, and this analysis is spot on.
“How, then, did progressives in America re-define fascism and Nazism as phenomena of the right?”
Doesn’t matter. When I get into a discussion with a leftist, I always, sooner or later, call him a Nazi. I wait for his head to spin around 360 degrees and spit out green pea soup, like in the “Exorcist” movie, and challenge him to step out in the parking lot for a further discussion.
He never does.
As a practical matter, fascism and socialism go hand in hand. A Marxist or socialist dictator inevitably employs fascist elements in his governance.
Similarly, it should be pointed out that socialism and fascism do not free you of an oligarchy, they in fact create an oligarchy. In some cases replacing the old one, in some cases its the old one in new guise. But in any dictatorship and in any socialist country, dictatorship or not, you will have a circle of powerful figures and families that profit from the regime and hold the whole thing together.
Thank you. My uneducated self has never been able to grasp how they completely overlook the socialist aspect of the National Socialists. Still don’t understand why so many believe it.
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In 2016 the anticipated candidates of both American "parties", Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton were both running on the same corrupt, fascist agenda of regulated competition in business, massive preferences to a shrinking number of dominant corporations, suppression of religious belief, complete state control of education and the eradication of national sovereignty and the nation state. Then Trump happened and set their agenda back at least four years. It's a start.
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Don’t look at me. No relation whatsoever.
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I studied Fascism under one of the leading hitorians in the field: Dr. Gilbert Allardyce.
Modern fascism evolves from the left, as it did around the world prior to WWII in both Europe and the United States, as well as Japan.
In each historic case they were nationalists, the present day American fascists are racial and ethnic nationalists. They are also socialists who want to redistribute wealth according to their nationalist protocols . All want a brave new world, a Utopia , available only through a totalitarian State.Added to their cry for historic justice are rumblings of destruction.``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
Read here:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
Went to a Dinesh D’Souza speech about a year ago when he talked about the KKK’s ties to the rat party and his time in prison.
Read mannnny years ago Fascism is a form of socialism that government controls private property by regulation, communism controls private property by ownership.
That seems pretty accurate. NAZI translate to National Socialist German Worker’s Party.
The ONLY people who consider the NAZI right wing are the communist, the idiots falling for the Anti-Fa, and a bunch of goofy old ladies who think the rats care about them.
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