Libertarianism does not lead to fascism. That's directly contradictory.

But conservatives may leave libertarianism and head on over towards fascism.

The conservative and progressive movements are in a death-spiral, each periodically flirting with the authoritarian pole, then with the libertarian pole, but moving onwards, round and round the center. I was very aligned with progressives around 2000, very close to conservatives around 2016, and now I'm getting closer to equidistant again. And I don't think I've moved. I think they are moving.

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If freedom leads to tyrrany, then facism leads to utopia.

This is kind of a straw man of my position. In any case, I'm on vacation this week, and planning on sitting down and writing a pretty meaty Medium post on the Libertarian-to-facist pipeline. My claim is not all libertarians end up fascists -- but a lot do. Many ultimately come to the same conclusion as me, and have retreated into things like state capacity libertarianism, liberal nationalism or New Liberalism.

moving target always hits the spot

The conservatives in India who are in power right now are very much headed in the fascist direction. Building a personality cult, religion as a tool of control, curbs on free speech, attacks on opposition in the name of corruption, etc.

It's been a slow creep.

The problem is there are no political parties in India that has libertarian ideals as a part of their core ideology.

There's only been one like that but that was in the 60's and it went defunct after a decade.

Fascism is when the state is in bed with big corporations, it's a fork of those communists that realised communism is impossible, so they try this socialism(central planning) using a few big corporations. A big example of it was the automobile sector in Italy before Mussolini, there were many small family companies Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, Lamborghini and etc. After him many of those companies died. But nowadays fascism triumphs, there's fiat and Volkswagen that owns all the brands, fascism won but this time with the best form of socialism they discovered, why try to control all prices of the economy when you can control the price of money, so you control everything? A real libertarian can't be a fascist, unless one uses that term without knowing what it really means, like communists that call fascists anyone who disagrees with them.

People use the term fascism in many ways. The American left often focuses on militarism. To many of them, rounding up criminals who migrated illegally feels fascist, because it feels militaristic even if it is just law enforcement doing their job. If Trump suggests some abnormal law enforcement to make it happen because normal law enforcement isn't doing it, thn this feels fascist to the American left, it feels like a misuse of power. Of course this isn't the meaning of fascism that you describe. Unfortunately the characteristics of Mussolini are multifarious and so the term fascism is tortured and hard to understand outside of a given context.

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Anything that uses the threat of violence to make someone do something they don’t want to do is fascist

MY DOGS R SUCH FASCISTS

I think that would be considered instinct 😂😂

THE THREAT OF VIOLENCE IS THE SIGNAL OF OWNERSHIP

That’s true. People are tax cattle for the left and right side of government