{"id":2014605,"date":"2023-08-28T17:57:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T21:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-everyone-you-hate-is-a-fascist\/"},"modified":"2023-08-28T18:01:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T22:01:59","slug":"not-everyone-you-hate-is-a-fascist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-everyone-you-hate-is-a-fascist\/","title":{"rendered":"Not all you despise are fascists."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnot-everyone-you-hate-is-a-fascist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2014605&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Understanding Fascism: Beyond the Buzzword<\/h2>\n<p>Everybody knows what fascism means, right? After all, our \u200bpoliticians and media members use the word constantly. Everybody you <i>don\u2019t<\/i> like is a fascist. Everybody you <i>do<\/i> like is fighting\u2063 fascism. But what exactly is fascism?<\/p>\n<p>The\u2063 one thing everybody seems to know is that\u200c fascism is like Hitler \u200dand this means the chief characteristic of fascism is the Holocaust. Therefore, by the transitive property: Everyone you don\u2019t like is fascist; every fascist is Hitler; the most Hitler thing is the Holocaust. So, Donald Trump\u2062 or \u2063Ron DeSantis or whomever the media \u200bsay that day is \u200cprobably going to commit a holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>Invariably, the people in the media who use the word fascism use it to refer\u200d to a politician\u200b of \u200cthe Right. But it turns out that fascism is Right-wing only when compared with outright communism. Fascism in Europe was a \u2062reactionary force. By American standards, fascism \u2014\u2062 which calls for\u2062 unity \u200dof central authority and \u200bgovernmental control over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-short-history-of-how-anthony-fauci-has-kept-failing-up-since-1984\/\" title=\"A Short History Of How Anthony Fauci Has Kept Failing Up Since 1984\">private industry<\/a>, among other \u200cagenda items \u2014 was far \u2062more Left-wing than Right-wing, which is why so many members of the American Left were originally quite warm toward Benito Mussolini\u2062 and Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n<h3>The Common\u200c Features of Fascism<\/h3>\n<p>To understand this, let\u2019s look briefly at the history of fascism. Fascism is a very messy concept in that it crosses streams with a\u2064 wide\u2062 variety of other ideologies ranging from Marxism \u200dto religious integralism. So what are the common\u2064 features of fascism?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Fascism is characterized by a belief in the moral imperative of the centralized state.\u2062 We can sense \u2063the roots of fascism going all the way \u2063back to Plato who called\u2064 for a Philosopher King in a utopian state, although there are those who read Plato \u2064as esoteric in this call.<\/li>\n<li>Fascism is characterized by a belief in nationalism or in\u2064 its most virulent form racial hierarchy. We can see the \u200droots of fascism\u200d in \u2062ancient Sparta, a militaristic dictatorship rooted in racial purity. With the death\u200b of \u2062biblical adherence to\u2063 the notion \u200dof a universal humanity during the enlightenment, racial division became a deep part of Western thought.<\/li>\n<li>Fascism is militaristic. It \u200dsees organization\u2063 around military lines\u200d as \u200ca model for human existence and recommends action in the world as a response to existential nihilism.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Historically, the most important fascist \u200dwas actually not Hitler but Benito Mussolini. \u2062Mussolini was the first politician to truly channel the roiling forces of fascism into one movement. The word fascism comes from the word \u201c<em>fasces<\/em>,\u201d a bundle of rods grouped together to form a roman \u200cweapon. Fascism comes from Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Mussolini was originally attracted to the work\u200b of Marx, which was not anti-fascist\u2063 in\u2062 any real way. Many of the predicates of fascism \u200dalso worked quite well for Lenin and Stalin. But Mussolini eventually came to realize rejecting Marx could serve his own ends.<\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath of World War I, Mussolini gained power by marching on Rome, with the acquiescence of the king, in order to supposedly save the state from Bolshevism. Mussolini\u2019s philosophy was somewhat vague but it carried all the central tenets of fascism. In 1927, Mussolini laid \u200dout the \u201cDoctrine\u201d of Fascism.\u201d He wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cAnti-individualistic, the \u200cFascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State \u200cand accepts the individual only \u2062in so far as his interests coincide with \u200bthose of\u200c the State\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mussolini wrote that\u200d fascism\u2062 was\u200b a \u201cspiritual\u2063 attitude.\u201d That <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-everyone-you-hate-is-a-fascist\/\" title=\"Not all you despise are fascists.\">spiritual \u200cattitude required outward expansion<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cThe state is not only authority which governs and confers a legal form and\u2063 spiritual value on individual wills, it is\u2062 also Power which makes its will felt and respected beyond its own\u2063 frontiers thus \u200caffording practical proof\u200c of the universal character of the decisions necessary to ensure its development. This implies organization and\u200d expansion potential if not \u200bactual.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That expansion meant\u2062 not just militarization, but gargantuan public works, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-argue-at-impeachment-trial-that-capitol-breach-wasnt-sparked-by-one-speech\/\" title=\"Democrats Argue at Impeachment Trial That Capitol Breach Wasn\u2019t Sparked by \u2018One Speech\u2019\">massive expansion<\/a> of \u2064the welfare state, corporatization\u200b of the private sector\u200c with \u200bthe government leaving private industry intact, but essentially working hand-in-glove with it to \u200dcontrol it and channel its resources \u200cin the direction sought by the fascists.<\/p>\n<p>Private\u200b companies remaining in private hands, that\u2019s the\u2062 reason that we\u2019re \u200cable to create \u2062innovative \u200dproducts right here in America that are recognized and used the world over. We know how\u2063 incompetent the government is, imagine\u2063 them actually controlling all private business. Things would look pretty bleak.<\/p>\n<p>Glorification of \u200dthe \u2062State and \u200dthe\u2062 great \u2062leader lay at\u2064 the root of the Mussolini regime. Mussolini \u2062quickly gained worldwide credence and approval. Fascism spread\u2064 throughout Europe. \u200bHitler greatly \u2062admired Mussolini, of \u2064course, and Hitler\u2019s\u2063 original Beer Hall Putsch was supposed to mimic the success of Mussolini\u2019s march\u200d on Rome.<\/p>\n<p>Hitlerian fascism was significantly more totalitarian than Mussolini\u2019s brand. The cult \u200dof the great leader reached its \u2062fruition \u200cin\u200d the F\u00fchrer. Philosopher Martin Heidegger embodied the feelings of millions in 1933:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cThe F\u00fchrer himself and\u2063 he\u2063 alone is \u2062the German reality, present and future, and its law. Heil Hitler!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nazism, of\u2062 course, took \u200con racial eugenics in a far more significant way culminating in the \u200dHolocaust. And Nazism\u2019s militarism ended in the catastrophe of World War II. Hitler was not the only fascist to follow Mussolini\u2019s lead.<\/p>\n<p>Fascist regimes took over in a variety of countries ranging \u2064from Hungary and Romania\u2062 to Paraguay and eventually Iraq. Other states, ranging from Spain to Argentina, mimic many aspects of fascism, leading many to label them quasi-fascist.<\/p>\n<p>Certain aspects of fascism, particularly in the \u2063economic realm could even be seen under FDR in the United States. FDR\u2019s New \u200cDeal, complete with government resources directed at forcing economic conformity, controlled huge swaths of American life, with FDR aide Harry Hopkins openly suggesting,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cWe \u2062are not \u200dafraid\u2064 of \u2064exploring \u200danything within the \u2064law and we have a lawyer who will declare anything you want to \u2063do to be legal.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And this is why the term fascism \u2063is so attractive in political discourse. Everybody thinks of Brownshirts \u200cand small mustaches when they invoke fascism, but there are \u2064a\u2062 lot of \u2064aspects of fascism that survive in a variety of forms.<\/p>\n<p>Corporatism \u2014 government working hand-in-glove with industry \u2014 is\u2063 a form of economic fascism. Racial hierarchies can be indicative of fascist thinking, particularly when combined with\u200b differential treatment under law. \u200bMilitarism can be \u200ctermed fascist, particularly when\u2063 its resources are directed at\u2064 domestic populations.<\/p>\n<p>Few people will admit to being fascist today. It would be far more useful for everybody to simply critique policies\u2062 with reference to history but \u200dwithout reference to the buzzword that poisons everyday discourse. We can have good and interesting \u2064conversations about the value of corporatism, for example, without invoking \u200cHitler,\u2062 we can talk \u2064about opposing the shortcomings of atomic individualism without invoking \u200cthe Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>The truth \u2064is that nowadays the term \u2062fascism tends to \u2063be a slur rather than a predicate to a useful conversation. As it turns out, everybody you\u2063 don\u2019t like probably isn\u2019t \u2064Hitler.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/facts-ep-3-fascism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: Facts Ep. 3: Not \u200bEveryone You HATE Is \u200ba Fascist<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>of fascism is a dictatorial and oppressive regime. However, it is crucial to delve deeper into the complexities of fascism to truly understand its ideology and historical context. Merely labeling someone as a fascist without comprehending its true meaning undermines the severity and significance of this political ideology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":2014606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2014605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2014606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}