Thread: Fascism 101

Originally Posted by youenjoyme420

Wanting less government isn't a measure of whether or not your right or left wing. Libertarian socialists don't want any government... are they right wing?

good point we Communist wish to totally abolish Government and establish a self regulating society .through the mechanism of a workers Government of course ,very cheap a workers government were no representative will get more renumeration then an average workers wage.stops corruption.

Originally Posted by philxx

good point we Communist wish to totally abolish Government and establish a self regulating society .through the mechanism of a workers Government of course ,very cheap a workers government were no representative will get more renumeration then an average workers wage.stops corruption.

Libertarian socialists dont want a workers government. They don't want any government. They are anarchists.

Originally Posted by CoolWalker

Spain, 1936...Fascist Franco enters from Morocco to take over the country from the king. Franco wins. Fascism takes over controlling every aspect of the lives of Spaniards. The Facists then place all Loyalists in prison. The Lincoln Brigade went to help the king (from America). Who helped Franco? Hitler and Mussolini.

Excuse me Franco supported the Monarchy,was a Monarchist until the day he died .The problem was for Franco that the King couldn't control the Revolution.

International Brigades sided with the Republicans.Stalin Betrayed the Revolution and strangled it helping Franco and Hitler ,directly saving Spainish capitialism.

Yet, it's the left that strives for increased government control of almost every facet of society.

I think you'll find that for every instance the government has asserted control, it has done so because the private sector has dropped the ball. For example, there would be no Medicare if the private sector had not wanted to insure only the young and healthy. There would be no mine inspectors if the mining companies had made the mines safe to work in. There would be no meat inspectors if the meat packers didn't believe it was okay to sell green meat. There would be no FAA if airliners didn't keep falling out of the sky. Etc. etc. etc. I think you're getting the idea.

Originally Posted by Kranes56

Yes it is right wing. You can have authoritarian right wing.

Not in the US. Your using an OLD model of European politics.

Originally Posted by dixon76710

Not in the US. Your using an OLD model of European politics.

In USA and in whole world.

In USA fascism uses some other kind of populism, but is right wing.

If in USA the whole politics scene is right wing is not our problem, at all.

Originally Posted by ronmatt

I was once called a fascist by a liberal because I'm self employed and am somewhat successful. (?) god knows why..

Just goes to show that some liberals are just as ignorant of what a fascist is as some conservatives.....such as yourself.

Originally Posted by philxx

good point we Communist wish to totally abolish Government and establish a self regulating society .through the mechanism of a workers Government of course

Soooooo you want to abolish "government" and replace it with a "workers government"? How does one qualify to be a "worker"? How does a people's government differ from a "workers government"? Other than everybody makes the same amount for their work. And if society is "self regulating", what do you need a "workers government" to do with themselves?

Originally Posted by kilgram

In USA and in whole world.

In USA fascism uses some other kind of populism, but is right wing.

If in USA the whole politics scene is right wing is not our problem, at all.

????? So you think "populism" is fascism? Well I certainly wouldnt deny that the right in the US favors "populism" while the left favors statism, But thats not fascism.

Originally Posted by Kranes56

No, Fascism is right wing. What the OP is thinking of is authoritarianism.

Wrong


The root of the word comes from Italian used to define the government of Fransisco Franco which was....wait for it.....socialist.

It has been used also to define the one time government of Spain and especially Hitler's Nazi government in Germany.

You must have forgotten that Nazi stands for "National Socialist Party".

Fascism is LEFT WING


There are books on this...its called basic political science