Facism anyone?

[italiano_Pride]

This is down right creepy. Are we there yet?

The 14 Characteristics of Fascism

by Lawrence Britt

Free Inquiry magazine

Spring 2003

Political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt recently wrote an article about fascism ("Fascism Anyone?," Free Inquiry , Spring 2003, page 20). Studying the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile), Dr. Britt found they all had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism. The excerpt is in accordance with the magazine

 

[builder]

Careful now. There is a place set aside for rabid leftist propagandists such as yourself. Hint: it's in Cuba.

Oh, and you failed to mention invading other countries under false pretenses, bombing them back to the stone age, then falling back on the old "spreading democracy" ruse.

 

[Cogito Ergo Sum]

Oh, as a confirmed Moderate, I still have to agree with the researcher.

Interesting stuff.

Grab a cup of coffee; it won't be long for the uber-nationalists wardmd and snafu and the ever so confused fullauto to come and bash on you!

Keep up the good work!

 

[italiano_Pride]

Thanks man, and yes, I expect them to come soon.

 

[builder]

My thinly veiled sarcasm is exposed.

Why are dissidents sent to Cuba? Why doesn't such a patriotic right-wing people have issues with using such a despotically ruled nation for ***-slapping and genital manipulation of dissidents?

 

[italiano_Pride]

***, we need the American version of Jose Marti right about now, speaking of such **** as Cuba.

 

[Komrade Vostok Hazard]

My thinly veiled sarcasm is exposed.
Why are dissidents sent to Cuba? Why doesn't such a patriotic right-wing people have issues with using such a despotically ruled nation for ***-slapping and genital manipulation of dissidents?

Third world nations are used as grounds for dirty work because 1) They can get away with it in these countries which have little to no human rights policies and because 2) Most third world countries lack the power to do anything about it. This is why they don't have issues with it. The right wingers need somewhere to get away with their dirty work.

 

[Komrade Vostok Hazard]

This is down right creepy. Are we there yet?
The 14 Characteristics of Fascism

by Lawrence Britt

Free Inquiry magazine

Spring 2003

Political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt recently wrote an article about fascism ("Fascism Anyone?," Free Inquiry , Spring 2003, page 20). Studying the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile), Dr. Britt found they all had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism. The excerpt is in accordance with the magazine

 

[italiano_Pride]

And the only thing keeping the American people from knwoing that Dubya person is a facist is the fact that he keeps using the word freedom. Sad how gullible we've become.

 

[italiano_Pride]

While i'm on the subject of the president, dosen't anyone see the blinding ethnocentrism behind the war in Iraq? Some countries are better off with dictators, guys, if they are uneducated you need someone to keep order if their is to be any order in the first place. As bad as the word "Dictator" may sound, sometimes one is nessecary.

 

[builder]

Third world nations are used as grounds for dirty work because 1) They can get away with it in these countries which have little to no human rights policies and because 2) Most third world countries lack the power to do anything about it. This is why they don't have issues with it. The right wingers need somewhere to get away with their dirty work.

Second poser:

I agree with what you have said, so why are the bible-thumpers not up in arms about sending suspects without charges laid to such a place, knowing full well that there are no controls over what happens there?

Unless, of course, they condone torture and human suffering at the hands of fascists.

 

[Komrade Vostok Hazard]

Second poser:
I agree with what you have said, so why are the bible-thumpers not up in arms about sending suspects without charges laid to such a place, knowing full well that there are no controls over what happens there?

Unless, of course, they condone torture and human suffering at the hands of fascists.

Every bible thumper knows that their *** personally talks to dubya.

And now all sarcasm aside....

They know that the fascists in power will empower their religion..therefore they keep their mouths shut

 

[italiano_Pride]

The Bible Thumpers will always come to power because of one simple fact. Everyone likes a good (Insert Religion Here) person.

 

[builder]

So, getting back to the original list, which, at a glance appears to be the reality of the situation at the date of posting, where to from here?

The patriot act looks like getting an ****-reaming shortly, and the constitution, while in tatters, will be patched up in a fashion, and the neocons will need another scare campaign to enact new harsher "emergency" legislation.

Has nobody yet twigged that the "current threat assessment" does not include rabid islamic nationals?

 

[fullauto]

Modern History Sourcebook:


Benito Mussolini:


What is Fascism, 1932

Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) over the course of his lifetime went from Socialism - he was editor of Avanti, a socialist newspaper - to the leadership of a new political movement called "fascism" [after "fasces", the symbol of bound sticks used a totem of power in ancient Rome].

Mussolini came to power after the "March on Rome" in 1922, and was appointed Prime Minister by King Victor Emmanuel.

In 1932 Mussolini wrote (with the help of Giovanni Gentile) and entry for the Italian Encyclopedia on the definition of fascism.




Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. It thus repudiates the doctrine of Pacifism -- born of a renunciation of the struggle and an act of cowardice in the face of sacrifice. War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have courage to meet it. All other trials are substitutes, which never really put men into the position where they have to make the great decision -- the alternative of life or death....

...The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide: he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest, but above all for others -- those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after...

...Fascism [is] the complete opposite of

 

[italiano_Pride]

Facism is a form of opression. Benito Mussolini was the opressor of my people. Facism isn't a government it's a form of torture.

Just a quick sidenote: I wonder how many people there were who were smart enough to see through Hitler and Mussolini's bullshit but were just to afriad of being killed for defying their government.

 

[quarky]

Also one of the key goals of facism is the erosion of the idividual and the rights of the idividual, there right to question the state and to voice there opposition to the policies of the state.

It is possible and highly likely we will see the rise of another facist idologically centers politial state sometime in the future, a number of countries are in risk of developing this type of politial center, be it through fear of terrosim, religious idology or through what will initally be the state wanting to protect its citizens from harm, in itself the protection of a sociaty is the role of the state, but when the state begins to remove the rights of the idividual and there right to question the state, the slide to facism is a quick one.

 

[italiano_Pride]

Well of course we will see the rise of another facist society because there will always be someone who will come into power and impose their beliefs upon the weaker. It will always be the person with the most power carrying the biggest stick.

 

[quarky]

not just the bigger stick, it has to be the right person Hitler was without doubt one of the best if not the best public speakers the world has ever know, it takes someone with charisma to brain wash the masses, anyone can tell a croud what they want to here, but a true facist can sell it. Mind you I still think Hitler and Mussolini should have been flushed at birth, but at least it put an end to the Arian race bullshit, even though a small moronic minority hold true to its doctrine. At the basis of facism was the basic introllerance towards anyone who is not one of the so called true people, be it race, religion or cultural the same hate applies. What the Nazis did with the death camps was the pinnacle of this thinking, it took the deaths of over 6 million fellow humans to wake the majority of the world up to this, and those who are still in denial, who knows the next facist regime might be intolerant toward the blond and blue eyed people of the world.

Also the fear of dictatorships forming from elected goverments is not unfounded, every democratically elected goverment manipulates the information the public hears and every democratic country has the potentional to fall into a fascist dictator ship?

Have a read of George Orwell 1986, it has some really disturbing similarities to percent day manipulation of the media and information that is percent by every right wing government presently in power .