Your definition of facism is completely wrong:
To correct that:
Best Answer: Fascism is an authoritarian political ideology (generally tied to a mass movement) that considers individual and social interests subordinate to the interests of the state or party. Fascists seek to forge a type of national unity, usually based on (but not limited to) ethnic, cultural, racial, religious attributes. The key attribute is intolerance of others: other religions, languages, political views, economic systems, cultural practices, etc. Various scholars attribute different characteristics to fascism, but the following elements are usually seen as its integral parts: nationalism, statism, militarism, totalitarianism, anti-communism, corporatism, populism, collectivism, and opposition to political and economic liberalism.
Of special interest:
statism, militarism, totalitarianism, anti-communism, corporatism, populism, collectivism, and opposition to political and economic liberalism.
The racism, militarism, anti-communism, corporatism, and opposition to political and economic liberalism is at the heart of the American conservative movement. Racism has bubbled to the surface in the Republican Party in a way that moderate Republicans are finding repugnant. The rest of the world is watching the rise of Donald Trump and his racism with appalled horror.
Facism has always been the dark side of the conservative movement, one which Republicans thought they could control. It took the election of a black man to bring it to the fore, but that is what has happened. Obama didn't divide the US racially. That divide was already there. His election lead to racists becoming more overt, like overturning the rocks on the shore to see what slithered out.
Now....your education continues!
9. This thread is designed as the scholarly instruction in the use of the term "Fascist."
For advanced study of what Fascism is, and where it is to be found in America today, here is the assignment for our befuddled posters, including the one mentioned in the OP...
Your assignment is an older tome, called "MOVEMENT AND REVOLUTION,"
ByPeter Berger, and Richard Neuhaus.
The former, a conservative and the latter a radical activist. (Rumor has it that in later years, Neuhaus became conservative!)
The Sixties radicals –impatient, destructive, nihilistic- were the adolescent version. Modern liberalism is the mature stage. The campus radicals didn’t ‘grow up,’ or disappear: they simply became invisible until they reached positions of power and influence in the very institutions they stormed and seized in the sixties. Robert Bork writes about this in "Slouching Toward Gomorrah."
That's two books that Liberals should study!
Peter Berger explained
the resemblance of the New Left campus radicals of the sixties to German and Italian Fascists via the following parallels.
See where this is going?
The term "Fascist" should be reserved for the thinking found in any of the 'shameful six'....
Fascists, communists, Modern Liberals, socialists, Nazis or Progressives.
Comparing Modern Liberalism and Fascism...
a. Both were
without a positive view of the future.
b. Both were
simply against their society, against stability, classical liberalism, capitalism, and intellectualism.
c.
The Nazis, like the New Left, referred to themselves as the “movement,” and hated the “system.”
d. Both complained that liberal democracy was merely a fraud, and rationality merely a prop for the evil status quo.
e. Both
fascists and the New Left had faith in the therapeutic value of violence.(For further study...Geoges Sorel!)
f. Watching on television a group of students chanting “The streets belong to the people,” Berger felt almost a physical shock as he remembered a verse of
the Nazi “Horst Wessel Lied”: “Clear the streets for the brown battalions.”
Berger and Neuhaus, “Movement and Revolution,” p. 43-47
Still have any doubts????
