A Primer on Fascism

What is Fascism? I'm glad you asked. See if any of this sounds familiar to you...

From EvilGOPBastards.com

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism -- ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power."  - Franklin Delano Roosevelt Webster's New World Dictionary says that fascism is, "A system of government characterized by rigid one-party dictatorship, forcible suppression of opposition, private economic enterprise under centralized control, belligerent nationalism, racism and militarism." Doris Haddock in Orion Magazine, March, 2003 says that fascism is, "The imposition of a national and worldwide police state to enforce a narrow worldview that enriches and empowers the few at the expense of the many and that gives no respect or honor to other cultures, ways of living or opinions."

In the first paragraph from the Encyclopedia Britannica (1965) Vol.16, Pg.92. description of fascism we have, "National Socialism [called 'Nazi Party' by Adolf Hitler]... Like Benito Mussolini's Fascism, it combined appeal to extreme and exclusive nationalism and chauvinist expansionism with a revolutionary call to the masses. It had from the beginning many traits in common with Fascism, and National Socialism may be regarded as the German form of Fascism. Both proclaimed themselves the implacable enemies of liberalism and democracy, or individual right and all movements of international co-operation and peace; both stressed the subordination of the individual to the state, the inequality of men and races, the right of the strong to rule the weak and the necessity of the principle of blind and unswerving obedience to leaders appointed from above. Both praised the military virtues, despised and rejected pacifism, humanitarianism and charity, glorified hatred and conquest and aimed at the transformation of the whole nation into an armed camp and an instrument of perpetual readiness for warfare."

Further information on the history and politics of fascism is available here.

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