who is 'they'?Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
are you saying racism/fascims is not bad?Quote:
Hitler certainly did a very good job of giving racist/ fascist ideas a bad press.
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who is 'they'?Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
are you saying racism/fascims is not bad?Quote:
Hitler certainly did a very good job of giving racist/ fascist ideas a bad press.
How do you mean?Quote:
Originally Posted by G L Wilson
Hitler was the Messiah to the Nazis.Quote:
Originally Posted by cacian
No, in the sense that serial killers give serial killing a bad name. It can't be denied that racist/ fascist tendencies were growing in Europe. Far right/ racist/ facist parties have not gained much ground in Europe since.Quote:
Originally Posted by cacian
:smash: LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by G L Wilson
OK...so nazis are/were fascist worshippers?
it is interesting you use 'growing' because the way I see is thisQuote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
fascism was already established it just needed a voice to circulate and as it happens nazis gave fascism a voice via media.
without the media no one woud have heard of nazis outside germany.
Correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by cacian
Dreary...to worship a concept says a lot about the human condition.Quote:
Originally Posted by G L Wilson
Some are just not ready.
Fascism is a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology, while Fundamentalism is the demand for a strict adherence to specific theological doctrines usually understood as a reaction against Modernist theology, combined with a vigorous attack on outside threats to their religious culture.
who is 'their'?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kingbob
and isn't fascism a strict adherence to race?
Agree with Darcy88, that it is the totalitarian ambition. Read Mark Levin's recent "Ameritopia" for a historical, psychological, political, power-based through-line when it comes to fascism. Levin traces it back to a weird, not-sweet, utopianism -- starting with Plato, then he takes up More's Utopia and Hobbes Leviathan. Then, on to the ogre Marx. Always, about power -- the accumulation and practice of power (naturally over others).
Thankfully, Levin gives the antidote and opposite to this thematic patern of thinking via Locke, de Montesquieu and de Tocqueville. And, how the Founding Fathers knew, and set up the country to avoid, the totalitarian tendency by instituting checks on mad ambition. Still, some people are power-hungry, and it only takes a few bad apples. Ayn Rand certainly saw it first hand and fought against it.
You're confusing fascism with Nazism. Mussolini became the fascist leader in Italy. Oswald Moseley led the blackshirt Bitish fascists. Other countries had their own brands.Quote:
Originally Posted by cacian
fascism was already established
From when? It grew through the thirties in Germany, but Hitler never had a majority. He took power.
No. There's nothing inherent to the precepts of fascism that requires racism. Though the practical application of fascism will usually require a scapegoat, so racism can be very useful.Quote:
Originally Posted by cacian
"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."
Oscar Wilde
"Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy."
George Bernard Shaw