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David Sweatt's avatar

The term "fascism" is cast about freely these days, so I am pleased that someone tells us what it is!!!!@

dave's avatar

https://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/As_I_Please/english/efasc

This is the best modern definition, but you can go to Mussolini or Gentile definition which is summed up as Give me all of the power and we can do great things together.

Bill Harpster's avatar

I believe you’re making stronger parallels to the “socialist” elements of fascism than you are to the more important cultural and racial elements that drove these movements. In fact Hitler hated the left political spectrum and often questioned the incorporation of socialist in the party name. Fascism is inherently alt-right and far from socialism. Socialist and Marxist parties existed in 1930s Germany and were on the opposite side of the political spectrum from the Nazis.

dave's avatar

All dictatorships are the same regardless of what political religion is used to justify their existence.

Sloane (she/her)'s avatar

Do I understand correctly that you believe the solution to fascism is capitalism?

Tom C's avatar

Fascism and socialism are ideologies. Totalitarianism is a tool to perpetuate government that adheres to one ideology.

Tom C's avatar

Fascism and socialism are on opposite sides of the class warfare divide. Because the most extreme versions of each tend toward totalitarianism, leaders whose goal is personal power, and not class success, the same people tend to to rise to the top of each. So, Mussolini switched from socialism to fascism because facism offered the quickest path to power, and the Nomenklatura of the Soviet state became the oligarchs of the fascist successor regime.

dave's avatar

No, they are different faces of the same side, totalitarianism. One army, two flags

Jody Fiers's avatar

We are all the way there with both parties!