Posted on 01/11/2021 7:31:37 AM PST by SJackson
Yes, it’s a woke fascism of the Left, but it’s still fascism.
The destruction of the freedom of speech in America today is being carried out by the Leftist establishment that dominates the political sphere, the social media giants, the establishment media, the educational system – virtually everything, really. The Left is using the Capitol riot of January 6 as its Reichstag Fire moment to criminalize, silence, and destroy utterly not just President Trump, but all Americans who still dare to oppose its sinister woke totalitarianism. In doing so, Leftists are revealing themselves, for all their rhetoric about how Trump and his supporters are fascists, to be quintessential fascists themselves.
This fact is all too often waved away by those who insist, quite correctly on one level, “They’re not fascists, they’re Communists.” The National Socialists of Germany strongly identified with Mussolini’s Fascists in Italy, and brawled on the street with the Communists. Hitler made his determination to destroy Communism in Europe a centerpiece of his agenda. So many assume that Leftists today, carrying the banner of Antifa, an organization that was born in 1920s street fights with the National Socialists, could not possibly be fascists.
Yet they can be and they are. Contrary to what many believe, being a Communist and a fascist is not a contradiction in terms, like being a Republican Democrat or an honest journalist. Communists and National Socialists were bitter enemies in Weimar Germany in large part because they were competitors in the same arena: in the late 1920s and early 1930s, they were the two major German parties that wanted to destroy the Weimar Republic and impose authoritarian rule. They just disagreed over who would be in charge.
They disagreed about more than that as well, of course. Marxism is based on total government control of the means of production, whereas the National Socialists, although they flirted with this idea in various ways for years before coming to power, allowed for private enterprise. However, this, too, was not as large a gap between the two as many people assume it to be. Hitler biographer Peter Longerich notes that “six months after the ‘seizure of power’ with its various upheavals, Hitler had reached a deal with German business, according to which their authority within their enterprises was increased in return for an agreement to submit to overall direction by the state.” The means of production were still privately owned, but they were wholly under the control of the National Socialist state.
This deal between Hitler and the German business titans was one of the principal reasons why his regime is called “fascist” at all. The word “fascist” comes from the Latin fasces, “bundles,” usually bundles of wooden rods. It might seem at first glance to be an odd name for a political movement, but the idea was that the disparate forces in society were bundled together in a unity of purpose and allegiance. Thus for the ancient Romans the fasces were a symbol of governmental authority, and from that Mussolini took the name of his movement. In ensuring that private businesses could remain private but had to work for the good of the state as a whole and under direction of the National Socialist government, Hitler was bundling together the titans of business, unifying them in service to his agenda.
So it is today. The social media giants and the Leftist government elites, the swamp that has reasserted its hegemony by installing Old Joe in the White House, are working in lockstep. The government doesn’t own the social media outlets, and it doesn’t have to: whether Big Tech is submitting to overall direction by the state or the state is submitting to overall direction by Big Tech, the outcome is the same: every major force in American society is marching in the same direction, while dissenters are stigmatized, demonized, framed for crimes they didn’t commit, silenced, and isolated.
Thus what we are seeing in the last few days, with the banning of the president of the United States from the main means of communication today, and the unity of purpose between the media, Big Tech, and the Democratic Party in propagating the Big Lie that Trump incited violence and attempted a coup on January 6, is fascism in action. And if the fascists aren’t stopped soon, what we have already seen will be just the beginning.
Of course it’s fascism. It’s here, and not going away any time soon.
Fascism was the violent implementation of socialism.
Nothing less.
And if the fascists aren’t stopped soon, what we have already seen will be just the beginning.
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It’s up to us to fight it and stop it. Don’t look to the GOP for any help. It’s THEIR persistent weakness and appeasement that emboldened the Left in the first place.
There can be only one end to this if you understand we have lost the soap box, and the ballot box, leaving us only the cartridge box to restore this republic.
“Fascism reasserts the rights of the State…If classical liberalism spells individualism, Fascism spells government”. Benito Mussolini
Is pelossi a communist? Silly question!
What’s most dangerous about this trend is the very fact that the demented, psychotic followers of the Demonic Party are so ignorant and ill-educated, they do not get that THEY are the fascists.
The only meaningful difference between communism and fascism is that fascists allow private ownership of property and business. However they have total control of business, those that cooperate become friends of the regime and those that dont cease to exist. This is why it is wrong, in my view, to say China is communist. It's fascist.
And so, now, are we.
Fascism died with Mussolini. Nazism is not the same. Nor is Communism which is what is going to take over after the 21st
Chinese Communism is a blend of different forms of the Socialist philosophy and seems to be confusing far too many people into believing they are facing Fascists. Historically, Fascists are far ‘nicer’ people that Communists. This is great for the Communists, since they can remain hidden while fools chase the phantom of Fascism.
twitter, facebook, google, snap-chat, youtube, et al., exemplify fascism - doing the evil works of government (suppression of free speech) on behalf of the state.
Too bad for the establishment and Democrats that their ChiCom masters will only need them for a short while longer.
Fascism was the violent implementation of socialism.
Nothing less.
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And Communism was the even more violent implementation of socialism
Fascists murdered something like 40 million people between Hitler and Tojo.
Communists murdered something like 145 million people between Stalin and Mao.
The goal of socialism is communism - V.I. Lenin - and Fascism is just a step along the way to Communism
Don’t be fooled again. Or you’ll have to relearn the difference the hard way.
Biden, therefore, is von Hindenburg; so who is our Hitler?
Does the evidence actually bear that out? She’s rich AF and she has run circles around us. I’d argue that she’s one of the most effective politicians in any of our lifetimes and she’s more fascist than communist. She’s probably a socialism for thee and capitalism for me kind of socialist.
Mussolini’s fascism was popular and adopted in America in some aspects. It was corrupted by Hitler whose fascism was more of a social system then economic system.
The only meaningful difference between communism and fascism Nazism is the number, the quantity of people they are willing to imprison and murder.
It was corrupted by Hitler whose fascism was more of a **religious-social** system then economic system. Mein Kampf (the one by Hitler, not Bill Clinton) is a reflection of the 5 ‘holy’ books of Islam.
No, fight for a peaceful secession. We need to work out a divorce between red state America and blue state America. If war comes then let it come but try the peaceful divorce road first.
A least Hitler and his minions didn’t pretend to be something they weren’t.
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