We Live Under Fascism

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Fascism is a word most people use to describe any politics they dislike. Libertarians will describe all forms of authoritarianism as "fascist", including non-fascist left wing authoritarianism. Left wing authoritarians describe all political systems that aren't leftist in nature as a "fascist". Right wing authoritarians will use the word fascist to describe authoritarianism by the left.

 

For example, if the government tells a woman she can't get an abortion, or use birth control, that's fascism to left wingers, but it's not fascism according to right wingers. If you tell someone a vaccine is mandatory, and enforce it, now all of a sudden that's "fascist" to right wingers, but not to modern leftists. The fact is, neither the left, or the right, or most Libertarians have a fucking clue what that word actually means outside of it's use as an emotionally appealing pejorative. 

 

To start with, there are two main branches of authoritarianism, right wing authoritarianism, and left wing authoritarianism. But the word "fascist" isn't just a convenient insult for anyone you disagree with politically from the other main branch. That word has an actual definition which I've outlined below, describing a very specific, unique system of governance. Fascism isn't an entire main branch of authoritarianism, it's more like a smaller branch up the main right wing branch.

 

To be specific, here's how most learned people that have a solid, real, and non-emotionally based definition define it:

 

Fascism: noun (fas·cism) is a system of government that:

 

1. Cartelizes the private sector
2. Exalts the police state as the sole source of order
3. Makes the executive branch the unlimited master of society
4. Favors nationalist or racist interests over individual rights & liberties
5. Centrally plans the economy to subsidize producers & the war machine

 

So let's take a look at how these defining characteristics of Fascism relate to the United States today.

 

Cartelizes the private sector:

• Unlimited numbers of regulations passed into law, making it near impossible for the average person to start a business. Nearly every regulation is sponsored, or starts with the powers that be in the industry the regulation targets, like large campaign donors, wealthy individuals & organizations favoring big businesses, large corporations. More, and more laws targeted at squeezing out, and preventing smaller upstart competitors that challenge their multi million dollar monopolies. The most egregious recent example was literally shutting down all small businesses under a state of emergency, only to force everyone to buy from big box stores, even though it's less safe by to force everyone together into fewer places.

 

Exalts the police state as the sole source of order:

• An unreasonable fear of drug use, coupled with the assumption people aren't allowed to do with their own bodies as they please. Instead of treating drug addiction as the social problem, and disease it is, the police are the only hope of order. Militarized units conducting pre-dawn raids every day, allowed to kill people under the guise of officer safety. Allowed to seize civil assets with no trial, or justification at all. A system that has created the worlds largest prison population, and the longest sustained prisoner to free individual ratio of it's kind to ever exist.

 

Makes the executive branch the unlimited master of society:

• It used to require an act of congress to declare a war, now, the president and executive branch has become the sole decision maker in who we bomb, kill, arm, and oppose with deadly force. This war power, coupled by almost no limits on use of executive orders has made voting in local elections, voting for congress/senators, etc. almost obsolete, nobody gives a fuck, we only care who the president is because of the nearly unlimited power that comes with it.

 

Favors nationalist or racist interests over individual rights & liberties:

• It used to be strictly about equal opportunities, and meritocracy, but our national interest has shifted away from creating equal opportunities and gone towards creating/forcing equal outcome, regardless of opportunity. It's now acceptable to place less qualified individuals into universities, excluding Asians for example, over other races. Many jobs professional positions, especially in government, are hired for and filled based on race, gender, sexualities, or other demographic. This type of favoritism is just for show, and isn't making the opportunities the majority from the demographics they favor any better. As ineffective as this is combating 99.999% of discrimination, and the disparity between demographics, the show itself is at the very core of our current national interests.

 

Centrally plans the economy to subsidize producers & the war machine:

• The treasury & Federal Reserve conspiring to print as much legal counterfeit cash as possible, robbing the working class of their savings by creating inflation, while using those funds to subsidies Wall St. and the politically connected multi-millionaires & billionaire class. They bail out big banks every decade or so when they inevitably fail from this economically illiterate policy. And most notably, they keep endless wars in place for the sole purpose of subsidizing defense contractors.

 

 

Fascism Vs Capitalism

One of my favorite books/collection of articles covering this topic by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

https://mises.org/library/fascism-versus-capitalism excerpt:

 

 

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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 United States defeated fascist governments, but the philosophy of governance that fascism 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 became the Italian Prime Minister and established fascism as his philosophy. Mussolini had been a member of the Italian 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 aft er article. He was heralded in scholarly collections as an exemplar of the type of leader we needed in the 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.

 

 

Etymology: 

 

The word "fascist" comes from the Italian word for a bundle of sticks: fascio, which is derived from the latin word for bundle of sticks: fasces. Ironically the word "faggot" (/prohomo) also originally meant a bundle of sticks, commonly gathered together and used for firewood in old English. The term was later used to describe groups of people that were gathered together to be burned at the stake, which legend has it, included homosexuals. So calling a "fascist" a "faggot" (/prohomo) is surprisingly accurate, at least from an etymological perspective.

 

The word Fascist was first coined in Italy, in the early 20th century. Originally, Mussolini's early supporters were called the Fasci, because they believed alone they were nothing, easily broken twigs. However, metaphorically, together as a bundle they supposedly became unbreakable. They characterized the non fasci "liberals" as weak twigs, themselves as a strong faggot, and the Socialists, of whom they were originally in the ranks of as their mortal enemies. The original symbol for the Fasci was faggot (/prohomo) tied together with an axe.

 

That's where the name, and their early symbology comes from:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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