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What Is Fascism?

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The word “fascism” has come out of nowhere to describe Donald Trump, as shown by search engine frequency that is ten times higher than what it was in 2014. After researching what fascism really means, I’ve concluded that it is being used as a weapon to shut down dissident thought after previous attack labels like “sexist” and “racist” lost their power.

The problem with the word fascism is that it never had a clear definition. Every single resource I found that tried to define fascism has used a different set of standards and rules, meaning that no objective definition exists. It describes nothing and everything at the same time, meaning that it has no function in discourse but that of a rhetorical weapon, simply because of the World War 2 Axis Power connotation that is associated with it.

Let’s start with the simplest definition, offered by historian R.J.B. Bosworth.

…it might be argued that the quest for definition of fascism has become absurdly laboured. Why opt for a long list of factors or paragraph of rococo ornateness when Mussolini, on a number of occasions, informed people he regarded as converted to his cause that Fascism was a simple matter? All that was needed was a single party, a dopolavoro [“after work”, a social leisure time organization], and, he did not have to add, a Duce (with a Bocchini to repress dissent) and a will to exclude the foe (somehow defined). To be still more succinct, as Mussolini told Franco in October 1936, what the Spaniard should aim at was a regime that was simultaneously ‘authoritarian’, ‘social’, and ‘popular’. That amalgam, the Duce advised, was the basis of universal fascism.”

Donald Trump does not advocate for a single party, does not have a social leisure organization, and initially tried to reach across the aisle to include the foe (Democratic party) in advancing his pro-America agenda. From the mouth of Mussolini himself, the progenitor of fascism, we can easily conclude that Trump is not one.

This would seem like an open-and-shut case, but instead of taking Mussolini’s word for it, historians insist on endlessly analyzing the qualities and nature of his regime to produce an expanded definition of fascism. This is where we get into trouble, because their analysis becomes more subjective and mired in problems of definition.

All three authors agree that statism, nationalism, unity, authoritarianism, and vigor are essential elements of fascism.

Immediately you may be struck by how terms like “unity” and “vigor” are vague descriptors, especially the latter, which can be used to merely describe an alpha male. I’ve also seen the word “vitality” being used to describe fascism, as if the opposite is more preferable. These authors will also have different definitions of statism, nationalism, and authoritarianism, and those definitions will shift over time, becoming vague enough that they can be used as a means of attack on nearly anyone. “Fascism” becomes a system that is defined upon other systems, all of which have definitions that can be changed at a moment’s notice by any competent propaganda machine to make fascist what previously was not fascist.

For sake of historical accuracy, it should be noted that Jews were disproportionately represented in Italy’s fascist regime, just like they were in communism and Cultural Marxism.

[The authors] also note that the role of anti-Semitism in the rise of fascist movements was minor. In the Italian case, it played no role at all in the early days. Jews, indeed, were disproportionately likely to be party members: it is estimated that in the early 30’s, 25% of adult Jews were Fascist party members, compared to about 10% for the entire adult population.

George Orwell, author of Animal Farm and 1984, wrote an essay that points out the bendability of fascism.

Catholics: Outside its own ranks, the Catholic Church is almost universally regarded as pro-Fascist, both objectively and subjectively.

War resisters: Pacifists and others who are anti-war are frequently accused not only of making things easier for the Axis, but of becoming tinged with pro-Fascist feeling.

Nationalists: Nationalism is universally regarded as inherently Fascist, but this is held only to apply to such national movements as the speaker happens to disapprove of. Arab nationalism, Polish nationalism, Finnish nationalism, the Indian Congress Party, the Muslim League, Zionism, and the I.R.A. are all described as Fascist but not by the same people.

Even in 1944, in the fresh aftermath of Mussolini, the term was already being abused.

It will be seen that, as used, the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley’s broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else.

He concludes his piece by stating that “fascist” is merely an insult to mean “bully.”

…even the people who recklessly fling the word ‘Fascist’ in every direction attach at any rate an emotional significance to it. By ‘Fascism’ they mean, roughly speaking, something cruel, unscrupulous, arrogant, obscurantist, anti-liberal and anti-working-class. Except for the relatively small number of Fascist sympathizers, almost any English person would accept ‘bully’ as a synonym for ‘Fascist’. That is about as near to a definition as this much-abused word has come.

Even the word “bully” has had its definition change over the years, and has now come to mean anyone who is strong, capable, and mighty. In other words, an alpha male. In a society that actually believes masculinity is “toxic” and any man who pursues sex with women as a likely “rapist,” we’ve endured a full decade of relentless propaganda attacking anything that is male, meaning even a man of average assertiveness becomes a “bully.” Within ten years, any man who is not a cuckold will also be called a bully. Real bullies who prey on the weak do exist, and that should be discouraged, but the mainstream establishment has used the word bully to define anyone and anything with an essential masculine quality.

From the above analysis, we can now create a definition of fascism for modern usage: anyone to the right of me who possesses strength. If your political views are to the right of someone, and you believe that strength in leadership is necessary, and the year is current, you will be called a fascist. If you are a “conservative” who is fearful of strength because it is literally Hitler, you will not be called a fascist. If you are on the far left but use strength to assert your position, like militant Black Lives Matter groups, you will not be called a fascist. If you are a moderate homosexual Jew like Milo, who has leftist views but is still right of where most leftists reside, you will be called a fascist, and your supporters will be beaten with pipes. The term is therefore relative and emotional—it’s a feeling that someone who is more conservative than you believes in strength to aid in upholding societal stability and cultural values.

Since the nebulous textbook definition of fascism uses various other systems to define it, mostly for the use of labeling by historians to write books that justify their positions and salaries, anyone who genuinely fears fascism should instead levy specific accusations of wrongdoing if they intend to carry on an intellectual debate. For example, what specific feature of Trump’s nationalism is wrong on logical terms? What specific authoritarian act that does not follow due process has he encouraged?

I do not expect the fascist labelers to drill down to such a level of logic, so we must endure their endless use of the term, mostly because their previous labels of sexist, racist, and rapist have lost steam and are no longer effective at shutting down conversations and ideas that they view as dangerous to their globalist platform. Behold the era of the fascist bot, who utters a term merely out of emotion for a need to assert power, and nothing more.

This article was originally published on Roosh V. 

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126 thoughts on “What Is Fascism?”

  1. I am a little bit disappointed that in your definition, you used the word “right”. Left and right is playing progressive’s game, because “right” is bad and “left” is good, and THEY are the owners of the definition. We need to create our political language from scratch and stick to it. If we use their words, we’ll keep losing this war, or alternatively, we can use their words in the opposite sense to disturb their meaning. Once you adopt these tactics, especially the latter, SJW are totally displaced: they have no arguments, just continuous language twists and PC.
    Examples:
    * “homosexual” -> sodomite (lifestyle, behavior, NOT an identity. faggotry as an identity is a much more recent concept that you would ever imagine)
    * “gender” -> sex (as it was twenty years ago)…. just imagine if that language twist had never happened…
    * “male dominated”? Male created!
    * white -> European-American. If blacks are “african-american”, the others are “asian-american” or native-american or latino-american, the word white does not make sense at all. Build it up, and get ready to be one more to the identity politics party. European supremacist? Does not make that much sense, although it gives me a boner from just hearing it.
    * We never “go back” to something (i.e. Patriarchy)-> we go forward to patriarchy, because feminism is “reactionary” (word not that successfully pushed by socialists long time ago, most people confound its meaning as of “reactive”, and pisses the hell out of them)
    etc.
    * Never use the word “social”. Hayek has a great chapter on this. THEY control it, and put it on everything they do.
    I really should write an article on this.

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    2. “Going back” and “going forward” both assume that something called “social progress” exists.
      Of course, man’s nature doesn’t mysteriously change in The Current Year, so how can “social progress” happen? The fact that quite a few young men lately have rejected the social-justice gaslighting, and they have started to question our society’s utopian nonsense derived from the Enlightenment, suggests that they have stumbled across this bit of enduring wisdom about the human condition.

      1. The going forward thing was more about subverting their own language. As a non-progressive person, I have absolute morals. Thus, this progressive axis for me is totally meaningless.

        1. Well, it can be said that by chipping away at a ladder you don’t logically make progress.
          I believe that there is no such thing as a halt. As such you either increase by your will or you decrease naturally over time.
          We should take our forefathers example and outdo them is what I mean.
          When we always strive to increase in all the virtues then there is no way to fail.

        2. Yes, we must outdo our forefathers on technical aspects but the morals should be kept the same (family, sex roles, etc.)

        3. I agree but I don’t think you quite get what I am trying to get at.
          Of course our morals should be kept the same as you cannot progress on a ladder that you chip away at.
          However we should strive to outdo them in the execution of the virtues.
          It could hardly be considered “outdoing” in the regard of changing it.
          We should learn from their mistakes, be more disciplined, harder on ourselves and generally more virtuos than them.
          Seems impossible to even imagine but as nothing on earth is perfect everything can always be improved upon.
          Continous improvement is the only way against the ever continous decay.

        4. Virtue is another word that has been superseded by the more fluid ‘values’…one of my main peeves is the semantic manipulation of the leftist termites in academia & media that BDTR outlined in his comment above…so few even bright people seem aware how the language has been manipulated.

        5. True. Now that you say it I just realize that virtue has indeed been replaced by leftists too.
          That’s just freakish.

    3. I agree. Especially with the second suggestion. Using their language and tactics against them. It is essential to understand that logic, reason and any appeals to good sense do not work on the crude masses.
      They must be taken on an emotional roller coaster. Their minds have been deranged to the point of full governance by the lizard brain. They are most definitely like lower consciousness animals now.
      I don’t know about anyone else but I am not casting my pearls before swine.
      The stupid and the weak deserve their lot in life. Getting stomped by the strong and fearless. Their ideology is fluid and chaotic. That is the key to unravel them. Become the storm that swallows them. Batter their minds with constant attacks, redirects and reframes. ATTACK ATTACK!
      That is all that matters in this game. Grab the fucking mic. Point fingers and name names. Mislead and draw out their emotions. You don’t need facts. Hell you dont even need the truth! Do you think the masses want that? HAHA fuck no they don’t!
      These imbeciles love their slavery.
      I sure as shit aint their fuckin savior. More like the hand of fate dropping down the heaviest god damn hammer. Get shit on.
      Embrace the Villain and all the shit they fling. Agree and amplify. Become their worst nightmare. The fucking Beast God.

      1. The problem is that behaving as I did has a social personal cost. I have already been ostracized and kicked from groups for behaving in this way. And if you want to make it public, larger scale, you’d better have your fuck-you money.

        1. To hell with what other people think:
          Dhammapada 329. If for company you cannot find a wise and prudent friend who leads a good life, then, like a king who leaves behind a conquered kingdom, or like a lone elephant in the elephant forest, you should go your way alone.
          Dhammapada 330. Better it is to live alone; there is no fellowship with a fool. Live alone and do no evil; be carefree like an elephant in the elephant forest.

        5. Yes, now I realized that. I have now corrected it. I did not say it was easy though, to get rid of their language. Their manipulation is everywhere, we hear it all the time.

    5. I would add “community” – a red flag code-word for all things collectivist.

    6. I find the word sodomite too biblically charged for my taste though. I don’t mind anal sex with women anyway. Faggot has my preference if I want to pejoratively talk about gays.

    7. The definition is a giant part of the issue. When people type in “define fascism” into Google, let’s say, they get back an incorrect/politically biased top definition. Even Urban Dictionary has it more correct but they aren’t the showcased Google pick. The attempt being to link it somehow to conservatism rather than acknowledging that it is independent of over-simplified concepts like right and left.
      Fascism is really about the means (the application and how) of government enforcement. You can have a dictator who is not fascist. You can have a nationalist government that isn’t fascist either. All Communisms and Socialisms are, by their very nature, at least partially fascist, while most Representative governments (Democracies, Republics, etc.) are not. Obviously some governments choose to refer to themselves as Republics and such when they are not though.
      Fascism requires three things according to Mussolini, the authority on the subject:
      Everything in the State (complete and total Government control and a reverence to it, this is where it pretends to have commonality with Nationalism).
      Nothing outside the State (every human being in complete submission to the government, over self, family, religion etc.).
      Nothing against the State (allowing absolutely no dissent in any form, and the fervent use of violence to quell it, a tactic attempting to be employed currently in the US by Antifa and Leftists, the true Fascists).
      tl;dr – fascism = the State is absolute and must be protected, maintained, and grown to cover the entire globe. It’s a direct repudiation of majority rule, individualism, and the idea that the governed should have any power in the government since it is perfection in itself. And if you have a problem with that, it buries you.

      1. Thanks for a proper definition…it’s rare that I find anyone who actually knows what fascism means…and that it is a leftist, statist form of government.

      2. I agree with you and the Urban Dictionary. Everything Mussolini said about Fascism applies to Islam.

    8. Good point.
      I always roll my eyes when cuckservatives say “But the democrats are the real racists!” as if that’s going to change anything.
      Try to virtue signal and be as non-racist as you can…the progressives won’t care and you’ll lose every time because your trying to play their cards.

  2. Maybe I am old fashioned, but to me an “Alpha-Male” is a leader or innovator.
    A few examples from American history:
    – George Washington
    – Thomas Jefferson
    – Nathaniel Greene
    – Andrew Jackson
    – Grant, Lee, Jackson, Sherman and Sheridan
    – Thomas Edison
    – Teddy Roosevelt
    – Henry Ford
    – Charles Lindbergh
    – MacArthur, Patton and Eisenhower
    – Thomas Watson
    – Chuck Yeager
    – Even some of the Tech guys from our era.
    A bully is a thug. Nothing more, nothing less. There is no intersect.
    Why these lefties would think any differently boggles the mind.

    1. Nice list.
      “You can’t build a reputation based on what you’re going to do.” -Henry Ford

    2. Chesty Puller is there too, to me. Fucker didn’t take shit from anybody and backed it up on the battlefield. This *man* was hard core and *on point*.
      “Don’t forget that you’re First Marines! Not all the Communists in hell can overrun you!”
      When an Army captain asked him for the direction of the line of retreat,
      Col Puller called his Tank Commander, gave them the Army position, and
      ordered:“If they start to pull back from that line, even one foot, I want you to open fire on them.”
      Turning to the captain, Chesty Puller replied “Does that answer your question? We’re here to fight!” At Koto-ri in Korea
      “There are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go”

      1. “When an Army captain asked him for the direction of the line of retreat,
        Col Puller called his Tank Commander, gave them the Army position, and
        ordered:“If they start to pull back from that line, even one foot, I want you to open fire on them.”
        Turning to the captain, Chesty Puller replied “Does that answer your question? We’re here to fight!” At Koto-ri in Korea”
        Reminds me of Order No.227: Not one step back!

        1. & Reminds me of SEAL cousin now deceased, who told me of USMC NCO tactics in Afganistan- “Just have all E4 & below charge the machine guns from pinned positions & get blasted until the numbers wear ’em down.”

        2. That’s exactly what the Russians and Chinese do in their battles. Strange, I always thought zerg rush strategies would be employed only by nations with a massive manpower pools.

      2. Dude, for the record that guy was a complete cocksucker. My direct relative who fought on Tarawa & Saipan filled me in on his Custer officer bravado…my relative was shot in leg on Saipan & carried a Thompson, have all the gory photos. Anywho, my, “uncle” jumped from plane at 900 ft & broke his back, then ‘ol Chesty berated him while he was on the ground as being chickenshit. Even at age 80 docs could see damage to spine in x rays. Uncle fought with USMC & later worked for TWA, was proud but wouldnt allow any family to join those dumbasses. PS also Scottish as a bastard.

    3. I heard Eisenhower was a communist sympathizer who had Patton killed.
      Eisenhower hired a communist party USA member to write his biography.

  3. I know some here don’t like Jonah Goldberg but his book Liberal Fascism is really good. I’d recommend it.

    1. Yes it is. My son got it for me for Christmas 2 years ago. Good read.

    2. “Fascism’s success almost always depends on the cooperation of the “losers” during a time of economic and technological change. The lower-middle classes—the people who have just enough to fear losing it—are the electoral shock troops of fascism (Richard Hofstadter identified this “status anxiety” as the source of Progressivism’s quasi-fascist nature). Populist appeals to resentment against “fat cats,” “international bankers,” “economic royalists,” and so on are the stock-in-trade of fascist demagogues.”
      ― Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
      {Describing the current ‘political-right’ that ushered in President Trump}

      1. Populism has no left-right paradigm.

        1. Yeah, you’re correct; just a little thought on the subject; and I can readily recall that this time last year Bernie was igniting the ‘lefts’ as much as Trump was igniting the ‘rights’.

        2. Reading Liberal Facism made me much more cautious of populists, even ones I agree with. “The people” can be wrong, very wrong.

      2. This still reads like Marxist literature, which reduces the fascist’s motivations to economics and class struggle.
        People are talking about fascism now not because Islam and Judea want to steal Europe’s money, but because they want to end Europe’s future.

        1. Indeed. We’re experiencing a soft genocide. More people need to understand this.

        2. it is genocide.
          Genocide defined at the UN:
          ,,In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
          (a) Killing members of the group;
          (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
          (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
          (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
          (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”

      3. It seems interesting that that’s exactly what Trump did during this election cycle.
        Mussolini was not a leftist. He was firmly to the right. In fact, he was quite capitalist by American standards.

        1. If he was rightwing, he was still a right-wing socialist, which by American standards is to the Left.

        2. Right-wing socialist my ass. His massive tax cuts to the wealthy show exactly which side his bread is buttered.

    3. If you have read Liberal Fascism and frequent ROK then you will probably like Paul Gottfried’s book Fascism: The Career of a Concept. Or if you don’t have time you can listen to his discussion of fascism on the Tom Woods Show

  4. Fascism is whatever some blue haired, masked, skinny jeans wearing and hooded Antifa loser screams it is.

  5. Libs will scream anything to get a rise out of people. Just ignore it, and embrace fascism.

  6. Fascism is simply accepting that the vast majority of people are no better than animals, and are wholly incapable of making informed decisions while simultaneously considering long-term consequences.

    1. So why not call it Kingship and be done with the wrangling. I am descended from Saxon and Viking cynnig, let’s just make it so and move forward. Those guys made great strides, before the Roman Imperial “caesar” kings took over via France and the Italic states.

        1. Almost the same thing as Fascism, honestly, with a bit of a state capitalist spin. And even then I question whether there is such a thing as state capitalism. A region that has a free market internally and some level of international trade that is negotiated in the interests of each nation seems rather normal and expected traditionally.

      2. I saw a blog post somewhere arguing that terrorists strike at ordinary people in democracies because, frankly, we all share accountability for what our governments do as citizens and voters, and that makes us legitimate targets for violence. If we lived in a monarchy, terrorists would leave us alone and try to strike at the one man in the state responsible for the terrorists’ grievances.

        1. Doesn’t quite hold up. England is a Monarchy. So is Sweden.

        2. Queen Elizabeth II doesn’t order the British government to do things, though. The democratically elected Parliament does that.
          BTW, note in Tsarist Russia how terrorists kept trying to assassinate the Tsars. They didn’t go into gatherings of ordinary Russians and try to slaughter them wholesale.

        3. I get your point in the whole. But monarchy can surrender in everything but name and we’re stuck with Sweden. Nationalism, and our people, need more safeguards.

        4. If by terrorists you mean Islamic extremists, then you are mistaken. They hate you because you are an infidel. Nothing more, nothing less. They’ll use political excuses such as government intervention. However, reality is that they’ve been that way forever and will be that way until their useless carcasses are exterminated.

        5. actually they don’t hate you for eating bacon. when terrorists recruit people, they use sympathy and revenge to lure people in. “look what they’re doing to the arab children, are you just going to LET them??” but if someone hits you, you don’t go to their mother’s house the next day and hit her, but that’s what terrorists do

    2. Like my Russian bud sez of middle east & homeland etc. To a degree fear keeps shitskin people in check & maintains order. Iraq under Saddam & countless others. Look at what happens when people no longer fear police.

  8. Franco ,the Caudillo of Spain, as dictators go , was not the worst. Keeping the Bolsheviks and commies out was huge and he kept Spain out of WW2. Spain was neutral during WW2 . Same w/ Pinochet in Chile. The legacy of Pinoche is that Chile is the most successful and prosperous country in South America. Give me a right wing dictator anytime ( Franco , pinochet…) vs the murderous lefty/commies Stalin/ Pol Pot/Mao…

  9. You can be sure that the ones hurling around the word fascist with abandon are in fact the fascists.

  12. Fascism is what happened when conservatives got tired of getting rolled and thought –
    Wait a minute – you’re a pansy. Why don’t I just kick your ass?
    As long as conservatives give up their greatest advantage they will lose lose lose.

    1. Fascism is a Socialist variant. If you want to see a kick ass right wing government, look to Pinochet. Free helicopter rides for Marxists.

  13. ABC is cancelling Tim Allen’s conservative show “last man standing”. This appears to be an attempt by ABC parent company Disney to stamp out any opposing views. Earlier in the year they also cancelled the popular Disney show “girl meets world” Which contained strong conservative moral lessons. No doubt Disney didn’t want anything that might stand in their way of corrupting youth with their push for homosexual acceptance as they so cleverly sneak into their recent movies. Tim Allen’s show was the second highest rated show on ABC right after the day propaganda show “modern family”. With that said theres very little reason to believe that “Last man Standing” was cancelled for any other reason than to stamp out conservative voices. Luckily a petition to keep time allen on air already has 200,000 signatures. Here is the link. Please make a note when you sign the petition that you are boycotting ABC.
    https://www.change.org/p/abc-network-save-tim-allen-s-show-last-man-standing

  14. More importantly every significant feature of fascism (lower case f) is benign.
    Yes to nationalism, yes to authoritarianism, yes to traditionalism, yes to fundamentalism, yes to militarism, yes to homogeneity, yes to patriarchy, and yes to strength and vigor.
    No to weakness, degeneracy, cowardice, globalism, and suicidal self loathing cuckoldry, faggotry, and all the other bullshit that defines modern leftists.

    1. That’s funny because a lot of homosexuals were fascists.
      In the 30’s homosexuality was even called the fascist perversion.

  17. They can’t even spell “Fürher” correctly, why should we expect them capable of judging whether or not a new one has arisen?

    4. True. Fascism means your body belongs to the state; therefore, you are obligated to take care of it. Democracy / Libertarianism means people are free (and encouraged) to abuse their body anyway they like because capitalism (fast food, alcohol, drugs etc).

  19. I have been watching this guy’s excellent series on WWI. This episode covers Mussolini :

  20. Fascism is the Weltanschauung of the Partito Nazionale Fascista, who ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943. It’s basic political positions are: strong nationalism, a corporate state under the rule of one Leader (Duce), economy in which the common good comes before particular good (social benefits, health system, etc), strong and ‘conservative’ moral values (importance of religion, family, etc).
    Is not that scary, isn’t?

    1. The scary bit is that borders must move constantly outward to gradually enclose the whole world.
      If Fascism was as nice and innocent as you imply, then why the need to force it on people?.

        1. Thank you for the stupid answer.
          You list the good points of Fascism, then finish with the nonsensical “Is not that scary, isn’t?”
          Do you then advocate Fascism?

        2. You are in the wrong place, for the Huffington Post please type “I believe everything they told me to believe” in Google, and hit enter in the first result.
          Bon voyage!

  22. Fascism is just another form of a feminine society upholding feminine values – protectionism, materialism and hierarchy.

    1. Hierarchy is not a feminine value. In fact, it’s a highly masculine trait, women hate hierarchy and prefer group “consensus”.

      1. Hierarchy within the fortress is feminine order, the pecking order of chicken. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecking_order
        Men work in teams, it’s a horizontal order, not vertical hierarchy. The army and similar formations are inherently feminine as they are supposed to protect the chicken so you have hierarchy there. Kingdoms are also feminine structures. And so are the Kings, the return of Kings, etc.
        There’s only one true hierarchy – God-Man-Woman-Children – which more of a spiritual ladder rather than vertical hierarchy but that’s too deep for comments section.
        Do you see the state, the Kingdom or the army in that order?

  23. It’s just national instead of international socialism. That’s it. Hell, it’s even in the name of Hitler’s party.
    “Hitler was a vegan socialist failed artist with ironic facial hair”
    – Iowahawk

    1. Yup, the only reason Hitler hated the communists so much is it was direct competition.

      1. Nope. He hated the communists because it was the jewish ramrod against Christendom, or Western Civilization, if you will.

  25. Both Adolf Hitler and Eva Peron have been described as fascists, which shows just how absurdly big and amorphous the fascist tent was even in its heyday. I often confuse people by describing myself as fascist, but with no particular love for the Nazis. My own political hero is Gen. Augusto Pinochet of Chile. My own attempt at a definition of fascist would one who is ardently, even militantly anti-Communist.

    1. Ol Adolf really did believe in socialism. Speer nationalized all of Germany’s industry, Goebbels carped incessantly about the lack of progressive taxes, and Goering bragged at Nuremburg about executing Germans who tried to flee with assets.
      The National Socialist German Workers Party really did mean the Socialist part.
      Eva Peron would have fitted right in.

      1. Yes, I agree. Many people are under the delusion that the Nazis were right-wing.
        In recent times I avoid using the terms right and left because there is so much ignorance. You may think that you know what the terms mean, but what does the listener think they mean? The terms are now probably obsolete anyway. Totalitarianism is where extreme left and right meet and the route by which it arrived doesn’t matter much.

    1. He never said that and corporatism doesn’t mean corporate and government power, they just both happen to derive from the same Latin root corporare, meaning forms into a body.

    2. If that is the definition of “Fascism”, then the US has been under Fascist rule since 1993.

  27. Fascist and Nazi are just two buzzwords for anything that leftists, marxists, commies, SJWs and their assorted ilk don’t like. Virtually everything is “fascist” to them, as they hate normalcy.

  28. Fascism is love. Love for your people, your culture, and your language.

  29. Fascism in an ordered society. It is top-down control. It imposes structure and hierarchy. That’s why the trains ran on time. Democracy / Libertarianism is inefficient and chaotic. In a libertarian society, the junkie staggering across the street is allowed to hold up and snarl traffic.

  30. I’ve always followed the maxim that
    “Communism and Fascism are branches of the same tree,
    and that tree has deep socialist roots.”
    Another way of looking at ideologies is to compare the importance of individual rights versus the rights of the group. Both Nazism and Communism championed the rights of the group, that is the ‘Folk’ or the ‘Proletariot’ and in the process stomped on the rights of the individual. The result was that even peaceful dissent was ruthlessly suppressed.
    The genius of the American system was to champion the rights of the individual. This marvellous system, however is under attack by all manner of idiots who have no concept of the gifted society into which they were born.
    If the United States is to survive as that beacon of freedom, then the true fascists, i.e. the Antifa, BLM and others must be exposed and defeated.

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