The 14 Defining Characteristics Of Fascism

[PaintMyHouse]

When you use the word Fascist, please keep the following in mind. Some here are much more fascist than others.

"Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each:

1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
4. Supremacy of the Military
5. Rampant Sexism
6. Controlled Mass Media
7. Obsession with National Security
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined
9. Corporate Power is Protected
10. Labor Power is Suppressed
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
14. Fraudulent Elections"
The 14 Defining Characteristics Of Fascism

 

[Pete7469]

These "people" are stealing oxygen.

 

[occupied]

It's what dummies get when they think government should be run like a business.

 

[bripat9643]

When you use the word Fascist, please keep the following in mind. Some here are much more fascist than others.

"Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each:

1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
4. Supremacy of the Military
5. Rampant Sexism
6. Controlled Mass Media
7. Obsession with National Security
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined
9. Corporate Power is Protected
10. Labor Power is Suppressed
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
14. Fraudulent Elections"
The 14 Defining Characteristics Of Fascism

"Dr." Britt and his study have already been debunked. In the first place, "Dr." Britt is not a doctor of anything. He's not a sociologist or a political scientist. He was an executive. He wrote one book. His "14 characteristics" were not the result of any research. He made them up off the top of his head.

In short, you're a sucker who got fooled by a quack. Mr. Lawrence Britt whipped a piece of abracadabra that appealed to all your prejudices, and you automatically assumed to was a fact. That's pretty much how the liberal mind works.

 

[bripat9643]

It's what dummies get when they think government should be run like a business.

Government can never be run like a business, that's why it shouldn't be running anything at all.

 

[Truthseeker420]

Is that the GOP platform?

 

[occupied]

When you use the word Fascist, please keep the following in mind. Some here are much more fascist than others.

"Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each:

1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
4. Supremacy of the Military
5. Rampant Sexism
6. Controlled Mass Media
7. Obsession with National Security
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined
9. Corporate Power is Protected
10. Labor Power is Suppressed
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
14. Fraudulent Elections"
The 14 Defining Characteristics Of Fascism

"Dr." Britt and his study have already been debunked. In the first place, "Dr." Britt is not a doctor of anything. He's not a sociologist or a political scientist. He was an executive. He wrote one book. His "14 characteristics" were not the result of any research. He made them up off the top of his head.

In short, you're a sucker who got fooled by a quack. Mr. Lawrence Britt whipped a piece of abracadabra that appealed to all your prejudices, and you automatically assumed to was a fact. That's pretty much how the liberal mind works.

You are the most visible and foul fascist here. Maybe you can tell us what fascism really is since you don't like the list, bless us with some of your expertise on the subject.

 

[occupied]

Is that the GOP platform?

It's not their platform, that's a bunch of fair and free sounding bait, the switch comes when they get the power they crave. More cops, more soldiers, more explosions, more snooping, more Jebus, more money.

 

[Pete7469]

It's what dummies get when they think government should be run like a business.

Government can never be run like a business, that's why it shouldn't be running anything at all.

Bed wetters will never understand that simple fact. Business HAS TO MAKE A PROFIT in order to exist. They have to produce.

Government simply steals the funds it needs, it doesn't have to produce.

The VA is a lovely example.

 

[Mac1958]

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Funny how every once in a while we go through a phase where the left-wingers and right-wingers try to infer or actually make a case that the other represents fascism, trying to associate the other with the work of Hitler. We get about 4 or 5 threads on it and they all go nowhere.

Slow news week, maybe, huh?



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[bripat9643]

When you use the word Fascist, please keep the following in mind. Some here are much more fascist than others.

"Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each:

1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
4. Supremacy of the Military
5. Rampant Sexism
6. Controlled Mass Media
7. Obsession with National Security
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined
9. Corporate Power is Protected
10. Labor Power is Suppressed
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
14. Fraudulent Elections"
The 14 Defining Characteristics Of Fascism

"Dr." Britt and his study have already been debunked. In the first place, "Dr." Britt is not a doctor of anything. He's not a sociologist or a political scientist. He was an executive. He wrote one book. His "14 characteristics" were not the result of any research. He made them up off the top of his head.

In short, you're a sucker who got fooled by a quack. Mr. Lawrence Britt whipped a piece of abracadabra that appealed to all your prejudices, and you automatically assumed to was a fact. That's pretty much how the liberal mind works.

You are the most visible and foul fascist here. Maybe you can tell us what fascism really is since you don't like the list, bless us with some of your expertise on the subject.

Fascism is an economic system where productive enterprises are nominally "owned" privately, but government makes all the important business decisions so that the so-called "ownership" is largely a fiction. The so-called "owners" are reduced to little more than plant managers.

BTW, what have I ever said that in any way resembles fascism?

 

[Camp]

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Funny how every once in a while we go through a phase where the left-wingers and right-wingers try to infer or actually make a case that the other represents fascism, trying to associate the other with the work of Hitler. We get about 4 or 5 threads on it and they all go nowhere.

Slow news week, maybe, huh?



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This explains the confusion:

Refining the Concept of Generic Fascism (Review Article) | Andreas Umland - Academia.edu

 

[occupied]

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Funny how every once in a while we go through a phase where the left-wingers and right-wingers try to infer or actually make a case that the other represents fascism, trying to associate the other with the work of Hitler. We get about 4 or 5 threads on it and they all go nowhere.

Slow news week, maybe, huh?



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The two "sides" are so close together on snooping, militarized cops and prisons that there is practically no difference. I think the true test of fascism is how safe are you from arrest and mistreatment by the authority figures you see everyday in your life? Doesn't seem to make any difference what state you are in but interacting with the police is a very risky thing, at least as risky as interacting with criminals.

 

[priceless]

3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause

10. Labor Power is Suppressed

I think this definition overlooks the fact that fascism is really just the use of collectivist ideology and bullying to push individuals into line (into social conformity) without regard for their individual reasoning and/or will to consent.

Labor power tends toward fascism as well insofar as individualism is viewed as a threat to solidarity among workers against capitalists/management.

'National socialism' really has to do with socialism and worker solidarity. The basic idea was/is that the national population is treated as a productive body that support each others' health, welfare, and productivity in order to provide for 'the national family.'

The scapegoating of Jews and others in European-nazi fascism of WWII was based on the idea that national families/houses were infiltrated and undermined by people whose intent and/or capacity was not to contribute to the collective well-being of the national people and should therefore be subjugated and/or removed.

It is really not that different from the current ideology that the top 1% or whatever privileged elite is being scapegoated for economic decline should be subjugated using taxation, etc. for the sake of strengthening 'the middle class.'

The only real departure from fascism requires supplanting collectivistic ideology with true individualism. Ayn Rand was an excellent proponent of this, which is why her work gets so demonized by various supporters of collectivist/socialist ideology.

Collectivism is always the ideology of bullying. Even when collectivism is framed in positive terms, i.e. as a way of benefiting individuals by making them stronger together than apart, it still ends up rendering individualism a threat to social-collectivism insofar as individuals make choices that aren't geared toward solidarity/support of 'the collective.' Then, the philosophy of collective resistance to 'threats to the collective' amounts to what is essentially gang-violence (coordinated action) against individuals deemed threatening.

This is why, for example, we have the cult of powerful individuals (in nazism the cult of the fuhrer); i.e. because individuals are construed as independently powerful and thus celebrated and feared as such. In reality the power of these individuals is due to institutional submission of numerous individuals bonding together in support of collective institutions - but the ideology obfuscates institutional power as a form of collectivism, instead attributing it to the individual(s) construed as wielders of that institutional power.

In effect. individuals like Hitler, Bush, Obama, etc. become scapegoats for the collective power of institutions, which is in reality nothing more than the coordinated actions of numerous socialized/subjugated individuals. Collectivism/fascism creates armies and then projects the power/responsibility for the army onto individual leaders in order to render collective power that much more secure. That way, if the power of the institutions comes into question, the focus is shifted to the leaders by scapegoating and hence the institutional power of maintaining subjugation of the larger collective is maintained.

 

[AmericanFirst]

When you use the word Fascist, please keep the following in mind. Some here are much more fascist than others.

"Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each:

1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
4. Supremacy of the Military
5. Rampant Sexism
6. Controlled Mass Media
7. Obsession with National Security
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined
9. Corporate Power is Protected
10. Labor Power is Suppressed
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
14. Fraudulent Elections"
The 14 Defining Characteristics Of Fascism

"Dr." Britt and his study have already been debunked. In the first place, "Dr." Britt is not a doctor of anything. He's not a sociologist or a political scientist. He was an executive. He wrote one book. His "14 characteristics" were not the result of any research. He made them up off the top of his head.

In short, you're a sucker who got fooled by a quack. Mr. Lawrence Britt whipped a piece of abracadabra that appealed to all your prejudices, and you automatically assumed to was a fact. That's pretty much how the liberal mind works.

Typical libtard, believing lies and ignoring facts. paintherhouse is an idiot.

 

[KissMy]

Typical libtard, believing lies and ignoring facts. paintherhouse is an idiot.

Bush Administration - "Bin Laden was merely pretending to be planning an attack to distract the administration from Saddam Hussein"

CIA Memo: “The U.S. is not the target of a disinformation campaign by Usama Bin Laden”

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Fascism is just another way of saying Progressive

 

[AmericanFirst]

Typical libtard, believing lies and ignoring facts. paintherhouse is an idiot.

Bush Administration - "Bin Laden was merely pretending to be planning an attack to distract the administration from Saddam Hussein"

CIA Memo: “The U.S. is not the target of a disinformation campaign by Usama Bin Laden”

Prove the Bush admin said that? You will probably use an unreliable source as most libtards do. Bush had more spine in his little toe then obamashitforbrains can dream of having. Libtards are cowards.

 

[Sallow]

When you use the word Fascist, please keep the following in mind. Some here are much more fascist than others.

"Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each:

1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
4. Supremacy of the Military
5. Rampant Sexism
6. Controlled Mass Media
7. Obsession with National Security
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined
9. Corporate Power is Protected
10. Labor Power is Suppressed
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
14. Fraudulent Elections"
The 14 Defining Characteristics Of Fascism

"Dr." Britt and his study have already been debunked. In the first place, "Dr." Britt is not a doctor of anything. He's not a sociologist or a political scientist. He was an executive. He wrote one book. His "14 characteristics" were not the result of any research. He made them up off the top of his head.

In short, you're a sucker who got fooled by a quack. Mr. Lawrence Britt whipped a piece of abracadabra that appealed to all your prejudices, and you automatically assumed to was a fact. That's pretty much how the liberal mind works.

And yet not one of his characteristics are incorrect.

 

[Sallow]

Fascism is just another way of saying Progressive

Well no.

It's another way of saying "Conservative".

Mussolini called it "Corporatism".