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jo 🇺🇸 3mo ago 💬 1

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RamenCoffee 3mo ago

Love your work.

Idk what fascism is. Can you help me ?

Erik 3mo ago

In one word: collectivism.

The idea that "common good" prevails over individual rights.

IIRC, the word fascism comes from Latin, and means something like a bunch (as in "a bunch of sticks) and refers to an old roman military story: if you grab just one stick, you can break it really easy. But if you take a bunch of sticks, you can't break them. Therefore we should always think about the collective instead of individuals.

As Mussolini himself puts it " If the 19th century was the century of the individual, the 20th century will be the century of the collective".

RamenCoffee 3mo ago

How is it different to communism ?

Erik 3mo ago

Fascists believe in a strong hierarchy that makes sure the collective will prevails (dictatorship). Communism is about ending all forms of hierarchy.

The difference to socialism is a bit more nuanced. But I would say most of today's "Communists" are actually fascists.

Mussolini was right, both the 20th and 21st century are the centuries of the collective. Hayek even wrote about this in his "Road to Serfdom"

RamenCoffee 3mo ago

Tyty.

So am I right to believe that to get a hot girl, I must believe in private property outside of the control of the collective ?

L0la L33tz 3mo ago

Lol. No.

L0la L33tz 3mo ago 💬 1

Fascism is a political ideology defined by a few key pillars, the most important being militarized totalitarian control, ultra-nationalism and the forced oppression of opposition.

Historically fascism has been a capitalist ideology (see the Nazis, Mussolini) but communist Governments can be described as fascist as well when they turn nationalist (see Stalin‘s USSR, Mao‘s China, DPRK).

Some scholars define fascism to have to involve a mass/cult-like following, which is why theres sometimes debate around leaders like Pinochet falling into the fascist category, who ran a military authoritarian government. (I dont necessarily agree that cult-like following needs to be a definition of fascism).

A good checklist is:

- is my government suppressing free speech?

- is my government punishing opposition?

- is my government militarizing against its own people?

- does my government tie allegiance to the state to citizenship?

Hope that helps.

RamenCoffee 3mo ago

Thanks a bunch.

Just to apply the checklist to the US :

1 - Not anymore. People haven't been thrown in jail for speech.

2 - Not really. applying the laws to criminal behavior is not punishing the opposition. The previous administration did launch a bunch of frivelous lawsuits against their political opponents.

3 - Id say yes, using the national guard.

4 - Not really, but it does tie clear opposition to the state as grounds to reject citizenship. So... I'd say it is still reasonnable but I see the slippery slope here.

My estimation here is that in some aspects it's getting to fascism and in others it's not. Kindof a wash for now.

Did I apply the checklist correctly?

L0la L33tz 3mo ago