Is Fascism Misunderstood?

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  1. Jack Ridley

    Jack Ridley New Member

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    It should be obvious that I'm not a Fascist, but one thing that irks me is how little people know of the Fascist ideology, yet are willing to attach everything they don't like with it. Many MSNBC hosts and ultra liberals are guilty of this. Anything that isn't a 100% liberal stance is instantly seen as fascistic. Why is this?

    I'll admit the Manual of Political Economy is hard to get through, but it's a great start to at least understanding where many radical Rightists come from. The Mind and Society is another book to start with, and both are written by Vilfredo Pareto. I've also entertained myself by reading Rigthist forums to see their side of the debate on many issues.

    I wasn't converted to Fascism by learning about it, but I found it extremely interesting and enlightening. So why is everyone against learning about it? Are they afraid they might agree with it? That last one was actually a fear of mine.

    So what do you guys think?
     
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    Piggybacking off my successful thread, eh?
     
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    Fascism, like Communism, is largely unknown by the unreading populace. Have you read Genesis and Structure of Society by Giovanni Gentile? Studied the Fascist time period?
     
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    I'm preforming an experiment that will demonstrate symmetry breaking. However, unlike t-symmetry breaking, this phenomenon is real.
     
  5. Burz

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    Fascism, like Communism, is hardly as what was described in the books, though some South Amerian countries like Argentina more closely resembled that, it's description which is closer to the epithet "National Syndicalism", and the Italian Social Republic claiming a more social program as relation with the uncooperative rich disintegrated. Fascism is the story of the impotence of the racial pogrom in displacing the issue of social inequality, with Fascist Italy itself collapsing and attempting to adopt more Socialist ideology. Fascism as an ideology openly adopted by governments can scarcely be said to have even lasted half a century, and then only in a few third-world countries alongside more socialist doctrines.
     
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    Oh, Fascism is completely misunderstood. Liberals misrepresent and abstract fascism into "authoritarianism" or "ultranationalism" because if they were to examine fascism scientifically they'd have to admit it is inherent in capitalism. Fascism is a movement of the petty capitalists, it is a reaction to strong worker's movements in a time of economic crisis.
     
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    The first thing one shoudl understand is that the only real difference between Communism as practiced by Joe Stalin and Chairman Mao Is that the Italian Fascisti didn't do death camps. That and they became the unknown blueprint for the modern left world wide.
     

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