thats a good one.
dem ocrats have always been the party of racism.
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Topic started on 25-1-2013 @ 02:33 PM by HappyLIBERTARIAN
The Origins of Fascism
To be sure, the last time people worried about fascism was during the Second World War. We were said to be fighting this evil system abroad. The US defeated fascist governments but the philosophy of governance that it represents was not defeated. Very quickly following that war, another one began. This was the Cold War that pitted capitalism against communism. Socialism in this case was considered to be a soft form of communism, tolerable and even praiseworthy insofar as it was linked with democracy, which is the system that legalizes and legitimizes an ongoing pillaging of the population.
In the meantime, almost everyone has forgotten that there are many other colors of socialism, not all of them obviously left wing. Fascism is one of these colors.
There can be no question of its origins. It is tied up with the history of post-World War I Italian politics. In 1922, Benito Mussolini won a democratic election and established fascism as his philosophy. Mussolini had been a member of the socialist party.
All the biggest and most important players within the fascist movement came from the socialists. It was a threat to the socialists because it was the most appealing political vehicle for the real-world application of the socialist impulse. Socialists crossed over to join the fascists en masse.
This is also why Mussolini himself enjoyed such good press for more than ten years after his rule began. He was celebrated by the New York Times in article after article. He was heralded in scholarly collections as an exemplar of the type of leader we need in an age of the planned society. Puff pieces on this blowhard were very common in US journalism all through the late 1920s and the mid-1930s.
Remember that in this same period, the American left went through a huge shift. In the teens and 1920s, the American left had a very praiseworthy anti-corporatist impulse. The left generally opposed war, the state-run penal system, alcohol prohibition, and all violations of civil liberties. It was no friend of capitalism but neither was it a friend of the corporate State of the sort that FDR forged during the New Deal.
In 1933 and 1934, the American left had to make a choice. Would they embrace the corporatism and regimentation of the New Deal or take a principled stand on their old liberal values? In other words, would they accept fascism as a halfway house to their socialist utopia? A gigantic battle ensued in this period, and there was a clear winner. The New Deal made an offer the left could not refuse. And it was a small step to go from the embrace of the fascistic planned economy to the celebration of the warfare State that concluded the New Deal period.
This was merely a repeat of the same course of events in Italy a decade earlier. In Italy too, the left realized that their anti-capitalistic agenda could best be achieved within the framework of the authoritarian, planning State. Of course our friend John Maynard Keynes played a critical role in providing a pseudo-scientific rationale for joining opposition to old-world laissez faire to a new appreciation of the planned society. Recall that Keynes was not a socialist of the old school. As he himself said in his introduction to the Nazi edition of his General Theory, national socialism was far more hospitable to his ideas than a market economy.
See the 8 points of fascism at the link below.
lewrockwell.com...
To be sure, the last time people worried about fascism was during the Second World War. We were said to be fighting this evil system abroad. The US defeated fascist governments but the philosophy of governance that it represents was not defeated. Very quickly following that war, another one began. This was the Cold War that pitted capitalism against communism. Socialism in this case was considered to be a soft form of communism, tolerable and even praiseworthy insofar as it was linked with democracy, which is the system that legalizes and legitimizes an ongoing pillaging of the population.
In the meantime, almost everyone has forgotten that there are many other colors of socialism, not all of them obviously left wing. Fascism is one of these colors.
There can be no question of its origins. It is tied up with the history of post-World War I Italian politics. In 1922, Benito Mussolini won a democratic election and established fascism as his philosophy. Mussolini had been a member of the socialist party.
All the biggest and most important players within the fascist movement came from the socialists. It was a threat to the socialists because it was the most appealing political vehicle for the real-world application of the socialist impulse. Socialists crossed over to join the fascists en masse.
This is also why Mussolini himself enjoyed such good press for more than ten years after his rule began. He was celebrated by the New York Times in article after article. He was heralded in scholarly collections as an exemplar of the type of leader we need in an age of the planned society. Puff pieces on this blowhard were very common in US journalism all through the late 1920s and the mid-1930s.
Remember that in this same period, the American left went through a huge shift. In the teens and 1920s, the American left had a very praiseworthy anti-corporatist impulse. The left generally opposed war, the state-run penal system, alcohol prohibition, and all violations of civil liberties. It was no friend of capitalism but neither was it a friend of the corporate State of the sort that FDR forged during the New Deal.
In 1933 and 1934, the American left had to make a choice. Would they embrace the corporatism and regimentation of the New Deal or take a principled stand on their old liberal values? In other words, would they accept fascism as a halfway house to their socialist utopia? A gigantic battle ensued in this period, and there was a clear winner. The New Deal made an offer the left could not refuse. And it was a small step to go from the embrace of the fascistic planned economy to the celebration of the warfare State that concluded the New Deal period.
This was merely a repeat of the same course of events in Italy a decade earlier. In Italy too, the left realized that their anti-capitalistic agenda could best be achieved within the framework of the authoritarian, planning State. Of course our friend John Maynard Keynes played a critical role in providing a pseudo-scientific rationale for joining opposition to old-world laissez faire to a new appreciation of the planned society. Recall that Keynes was not a socialist of the old school. As he himself said in his introduction to the Nazi edition of his General Theory, national socialism was far more hospitable to his ideas than a market economy.
See the 8 points of fascism at the link below.
lewrockwell.com...
reply posted on 25-1-2013 @ 03:09 PM by Tuttle
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Sorry, but i stopped reading your post when you said fascism is one of the colours of socialism. Good luck with your thread however, im sure you will have lots of explaining to do.
Sorry, but i stopped reading your post when you said fascism is one of the colours of socialism. Good luck with your thread however, im sure you will have lots of explaining to do.
reply posted on 25-1-2013 @ 03:15 PM by HappyLIBERTARIAN
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That was from the article. I thought it was a good article, and wanted to share it.
That was from the article. I thought it was a good article, and wanted to share it.
reply posted on 25-1-2013 @ 05:42 PM by Kali74
Holy crap more of this nonsense?
Fascism is not Socialism. It isn't Left Wing. Mussolini WAS a Socialist in his youth but came to despise it blaming the pacifism of Socialists for Italy's loss during WWI. Here is his own definition of Fascism. If you can read this and still claim that he was a Socialist, there's just no hope for you.
Source
I would suggest reading the whole entry which Mussolini himself, co-wrote.
You are told that every evil dictator in history and present is Socialist by those who hold power or support those that hold power. At some point in time it may be prudent for each and everyone of you that is anti-socialist, to ask yourself why it is that every person that clings to power, demonizes Socialism and goes so far as to obfuscate what Socialism is.
Socialism is a very simple concept, worker ownership of the means of production. It is never anything more than this.
Fascism is not Socialism. It isn't Left Wing. Mussolini WAS a Socialist in his youth but came to despise it blaming the pacifism of Socialists for Italy's loss during WWI. Here is his own definition of Fascism. If you can read this and still claim that he was a Socialist, there's just no hope for you.
No individuals or groups (political parties, cultural associations, economic unions, social classes) outside the State (15). Fascism is therefore opposed to Socialism to which unity within the State (which amalgamates classes into a single economic and ethical reality) is unknown, and which sees in history nothing but the class struggle. Fascism is likewise opposed to trade unionism as a class weapon. But when brought within the orbit of the State, Fascism recognizes the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which divergent interests are coordinated and harmonized in the unity of the State (16).
Source
I would suggest reading the whole entry which Mussolini himself, co-wrote.
You are told that every evil dictator in history and present is Socialist by those who hold power or support those that hold power. At some point in time it may be prudent for each and everyone of you that is anti-socialist, to ask yourself why it is that every person that clings to power, demonizes Socialism and goes so far as to obfuscate what Socialism is.
Socialism is a very simple concept, worker ownership of the means of production. It is never anything more than this.
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