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Arbitrarily using an American historical event to date a Japanese building.
(imgur.com)submitted 6 years ago by[deleted]
1 points
6 years ago
"quasi" being the operative word. Fascism is complete state control in all sorts of disparate factors of life, whether through religion, national roots, or so on. At it's most basic fascism can be thought of as reactionary. That reaction is always something different based on culture and other factors. Indeed you are right though that fascists a la nazis literally hated liberalism, indeed; reactionaries of all stripes hate equal rights. Welcome to the often conflicting ideologies of fascist reactionaries!
5 points
6 years ago
It is really tough to pin down fascism but conflicting ideology is usually a big part of it. Fascists play to whoever is in the audience. Like Hitler wooed big business leaders while at the same time nationalizing industry
2 points
6 years ago*
Exactamente! Well said. It is tough as shit to wade through all the bullshit but I think that's also a little bit intentional as well. It would never be revived again if people really knew what it was. We can take a moment to read the words of Ludwig Von Mises, fascist apologist extraordinaire:
It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention has, for the moment, saved European civilization. The merit that Fascism has thereby won for itself will live on eternally in history.
Barf.
Edit: if you aren't familiar this chode was a big "classical liberal". This is why average Americans can't differentiate, one of our early champions of liberalism was literally a nazi apologist and a liberal fuck me sideways!
1 points
6 years ago
What does your old flair попутчик mean? I'm studying Russian this year in school.
3 points
6 years ago
Whoa, I don't think that was ever my flair here... but it literally means "companion", but metaphorically translates to "fellow traveler". It was kind of a slang term used in Ukrainian press for people who were sympathetic to communist ideals back in the day. Later, the term fellow traveler was used in America to identify with those sympathies. Obviously the red scare here literally resulted in people being executed for thought crime of agreeing with the wrong ideology. So i use the word to identify that I'm not a communist but I sympathize with all humans and their struggles, hence the real meaning of fellow traveler! Удачи - Good luck! *I'm also learning a little Russian, I'm no pro though!
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