What is fascism? In your own words. I know what the dictionary says but that doesnt explain it.
What is fascism? In your own words. I know what the dictionary says but that doesnt explain it
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Adam Ross
Fascism is any idea that opposes radical left wing views.
For example, if you're a sensible intelligent man with no vices, who has a healthy social life and a loving marriage, and if you've produced children who are well behaved, you are a fascist.
Not only are you a fascist, but you are also a viscous racist, sexist, homophope.
Hope this helps
Ryder Miller
Wow that was spot on. Was not expecting such a concise answer.
Lincoln Wright
I watched a youtube video where narrator quickly went over the facist manifesto, I may getbsome rhings wrong here but this is what I remember.
>strong state
>national pride
>nation over individual
>nationalization of economy, small, big companies and corporations alike.
>also giving the people a common eneemy? (Unsure iirc on that one)
Luis Garcia
Fascism is a surrendering of critical thought to the ideals of misguided chauvanistic machismo. It is a system of control geared specifically to divide a populace between "out" groups and "in" groups by fostering and promoting hostility of ever decreasing identifiable groups until the targeted 'superior' populace is isolated and easier to manipulate.
Angel Bell
*chauvinistic
Ian Barnes
Centralized power in which violence is deployed to silence dissent
Jason Lopez
Sounds like antifa and BLM aka democrats.
Oliver Moore
You ever read a book that didnt have pictures of naked people in it?
Ian Reyes
Populist Governor/President who rules by roving violent mobs of supporters.
In other words
If you love your leader so much that you go out and attack those who disagree, you are in a fascist society.
Caleb Ramirez
When you say something offensive to non-white/straight/males
Aaron Cox
You ever crack a history book and realize that democrats are behind practically every horrible event in the last 250 years?
Hunter Perez
Any system wherein those in power/in the majority use violence or government actions to control and coerce those who get in the way of their interests.
In my opinion, I think it's the inevitable outcome of any system with representative government where a small, privileged group makes decisions that affect the masses. Men are inherently corruptible and self-interested, so even if it doesn't happen immediately, it will eventually appear wherever people wield power over others.
Tl;Dr any rule that gets imposed to the detriment of one portion of the people is evil, and shouldn't be tolerated. Every political party has countless examples of doing this, some more egregious than others.
Henry Davis
Isaac Allen
Fascism os typically when a government is ran by a very select few that aren't elected through democratic means, typically with a dictator as head of the government. These governments usually believe in their superiority over other countries, whether that be purely racial or political.
Colton Lewis
Whether fascist or not, you have to get the niggers out of your country.
Bentley Cooper
Wouldn't communism fall under this definition? (Albeit without an ethnic basis)
Brandon Nguyen
The nationalization of sectors of the economy is definitely not a feature of fascism.
Nazi Germany actually privatized sectors of the economy that were previously public.
David Peterson
>viscous
I’m imagining a jello man
Joshua Baker
It’s not state ownership per se that’s critical, but state control. The Nazis centralized the economy in an oligarchic system of a few large state-aligned companies.
Italian fascism did something similar… linking the state and corporations (and all organs of society including unions) together is a key part of Mussolini’s vision.
Camden Gray
Ironically social democrats in Scandinavia and Dems in the US do the same thing and like to bandy the term fascist around
Elijah Parker
Fascism is fusion of corporation and government, which, by the way, is what you are seeing all over the west.
Brody Stewart
Fascism is the belief that the systems by which people cooperate - governments, religions, etc - centralized sources of authority, are more important than the individuals within them, and that those systems are therefore justified in putting their own interests ahead of the interests of those individuals. The stereotype described by gets called a fascist because he's so in love with the system that allowed him to prosper like that that he doesn't care whether or not other people are hurt by it.
The opposite view is that the only possible justification for allowing these systems to exist is that they benefit humans, and they should therefore be designed and improved in order to do this as well as possible.
If you worship the corporations that control most aspects of your life, you're a fascist. If you think that politicians whose campaigns are paid for by those corporations are on your side, that's the same thing. If you think a new outlet that's funded by selling advertising space to those corporations, not to mention owned by one of them, is telling you the truth, you're probably a fascist.
Liam Phillips
The point is that there is no real cohesive economic system that defines fascism.
There were different economic visions in different fascist countries, as you said Italy viewed unions as part of the system, while Germany outright banned unions and strikes.