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"The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. "
Originally posted by captainnotsoobvious
reply to post by ElectricUniverse
Another completely ridiculous post.
You realise, for instance, that, if you believe that C02 is damaging, that "forced tax" is in response to the "forced destruction of the environment" big business engages in all the time.
And on and on.
People like you want to pretend it's all one sided, but it's just wildly naive.
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
reply to post by neo96
Actually fascism is very leftwing. Show me one fascist regime that was rightwing. Remember the true rightwing movement is about LIMITED government, no centralization of power, individual rights, and a true free market system...
Now show me ONE fascist government that was rightwing.
The original political meanings of ‘left’ and ‘right’ have changed since their origin in the French estates general in 1789. There the people sitting on the left could be viewed as more or less anti-statists with those on the right being state-interventionists of one kind or another. In this interpretation of the pristine sense, libertarianism was clearly at the extreme left-wing.
The King then handed over power to Mussolini by inviting him to form a new government. Mussolini was supported by the military, the business class, and the liberal right-wing.
Nazism was founded out of elements of the far-right racist völkisch German nationalist movement and the violent anti-communist Freikorps paramilitary culture that fought against the uprisings of communist revolutionaries in post-World War I Germany.
He [Franco] came to power while recognizing the principles of the far-right Falange movement, although this was for propaganda reasons, as he belonged to no political party before becoming Head of State.
Fascism is a form of extreme right-wing ideology that celebrates the nation or the race as an organic community transcending all other loyalties.
Europe’s far right rises
The British National Party will be joined in the European parliament by far-right parties from across the continent. But how much support are fascists and racists really picking up?
Originally posted by neo96
Originally posted by NoHierarchy
reply to post by neo96
Ohhh, my god...
STFU... SERIOUSLY, STFU. YOU ARE A FOOL.
Hey love the personal attack pretty Fascist to silence any thought you disagree with.
Originally posted by neo96
Thanks for providing my points I have yet to see a liberal who don't think they arent the "master race".
Originally posted by xuenchen
Originally posted by L00kingGlass
Originally posted by xuenchen
Originally posted by L00kingGlass
reply to post by ElectricUniverse
You sir, or mam are very wrong. Fascism is a LEFTWING ideology.
Wow lol... No it is not. Yikes!
yes it IS an extreme liberal left wing agenda !!
Fascism is far right wing/authoritarianism. The left wing equivalent is communism/authoritarianism.
Authoritarianism is the key.
Edit: I agree that there's an agenda, however calling fascism extreme left wing is absurd and misinformed.
Someone posted this earlier, good example:
edit on 22-4-2012 by L00kingGlass because: (no reason given)
I disagree with the diagram.
It is not accurate.
Fascism and Communism belong in the upper left quadrant...
All the way over and in between social democracy and anarchism.
IN FACT, I'm comfortable saying that every single left-winger I've ever known has criticized racists, bigots, fascists, totalitarians, eugenics, and so on with great zeal.
Originally posted by neo96
reply to post by NoHierarchy
IN FACT, I'm comfortable saying that every single left-winger I've ever known has criticized racists, bigots, fascists, totalitarians, eugenics, and so on with great zeal.
That is a load of garbage yeah liberals are the most "tolerant sort" the only tolerance i have seen liberals show if for themselves and their views.
the are the biggest racists bigots fascists this country has ever seen.
Rich are evil
Corporations are evil
right wingers hate women and children and all that stupidity
then of course we have the famous hypened american:
african american
chinese american
irish american
hispanic american
but they call that political correctness.
mehedit on 23-4-2012 by neo96 because: (no reason given)
The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them....To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just as long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies - all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.
When most people hear the word "fascism" they naturally think of its ugly racism and anti-Semitism as practiced by the totalitarian regimes of Mussolini and Hitler. But there was also an economic policy component of fascism, known in Europe during the 1920s and '30s as "corporatism," that was an essential ingredient of economic totalitarianism as practiced by Mussolini and Hitler.
Originally posted by ColCurious
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Your view (fascism = leftwing) might be true in your country, I don't know.
In Germany however, fascism is clearly defined as extreme rightwing and we oughta know, we have experienced fascism first-hand and had to review our history with it very thoroughly.
We also had socialism/communism, wich is clearly defined as extreme leftwing.
Originally posted by ANOK
Are Americans so convinced that right-wing means smaller government, that they base their whole idea of right and left on that myth?
Because of that myth they think left wing must mean larger government?
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