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"Fascism" in Current Year cannot be understood by studying actual fascism or National Socialism, which have limited applicability outside of the context of Europe in the 1920s and 30s. In fact fascism is a term for the "shadow' cast by liberal democracy, where all that is taboo and doesn't fit into its system and worldview is placed, an intellectual wilderness where the respectable fear to tread. Fearsome shadows like "hierarchy," "natural authority," and "martial virtue" lurk around every corner, threatening to "radicalize" any neophyte who dares to account for such demons in his worldview.
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@ArdainianRight
Plato points out that democracy always leads to authoritarianism.
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@amerika
Plato was a fascist because he's a dead white guy who probably didn't even believe in trans rights and nonbinary folx.
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@ArdainianRight
He was worse than a fascist. He affirmed how post-monarchist systems implode.
He also thought diversity was insane.
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@leyonhjelm
That's not exclusive to fascism, that's just the historical norm for most people and places. But it's scary to bugmen, so it's thrown under the label of "fascism."
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@ArdainianRight
They hate fascism because it involves putting your country, people, and culture above the rest as an existential requirement. They fear it because they know these priorities are objectively correct and they can’t compete with that on a fair playing field.
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@leyonhjelm Because modern terms use "fascism" as a blanket for anything that lurks in the outer darkness outside of the comforts of liberal democracy. Even modern "fascists" identify themselves under these terms. The "industrialized spirit of the new Italian nation" means nothing to the modern fascist, because historical fascism isn't applicable to the 21st Century.
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@ArdainianRight
It is exclusive in modern terms
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@leyonhjelm
I'm not carrying water for anything, I'm saying fascism is a bad descriptive term because what it "means" today has nothing to do with Gentile or Hitler, and everything to do with the contradictions of a liberalism that's run its course.
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@ArdainianRight
Why are you doing their job? If they want it to be fascism then let's just be for facism. just like we did with racism and anti-faggotry
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