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heavyblinker -> RE: How Can Trump Unite the Country? (11/11/2016 5:09:56 AM)
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ORIGINAL: ThatDizzyChick
Your definition is correct, however, that does not make fascism right wing as fascism is and always has been the "third way", neither left nor right.
This is what you said:
'Fascism is a political philosophy that places the interests of the state above those of the people or any segment of the people.'
If the state is placing its own interests above those of the people or any segment of the population, then it is enforcing a hierarchy.
Of course, people will start talking about Stalin and Mao, but the common American definition of communism/left-wing societies doesn't fit the original definition at all and is heavily influenced by cold war propaganda. Assuming that they are somehow what the left wants or are the inevitable product of left wing policies is extremely limiting and absurdly dishonest.
The purest expression of left wing ideals is anarcho-communism-- the classless, stateless society that Marx himself described as happening some point in the future. That society is also the exact opposite of fascist society, which unapologetically embraces both class and state as being unchangeable, unavoidable aspects of the 'natural order'.
Fascism is inherently cynical about human nature and sees individuality and especially diversity as something that must be suppressed in favor of some state-created idea like 'the nuclear family', 'the Aryan race' or 'the American dream'-- it provides people with a false identity that can be manipulated to suit the state's interests, while anyone labelled a deviant or misfit is forced to suppress or reject their true identity if possible (eg: homosexuals, Jews) or try to escape (eg: visible minorities, people who refuse to conform or hide). Egalitarianism and the left both actively celebrate and viciously defend the very diversity that fascists seek to suppress (ie: the dreaded SJWs, feminists, multiculturalism, etc).
Fascists manipulate the people through nationalism, populism, religion, anti-intellectualism, xenophobia, fear of degeneracy, and a sense of pride in their race, religion, culture. Other cultures and races are inferior, irrelevant or a threat. This is also how fascists justify their militarism. I don't think you can separate that from the definition of fascism, or link any of those things with the egalitarian left... at least, not unless you're going by the cold war style 'spheres of influence' sense of left and right.
The fascist state will occasionally dole out 'socialist-style' concessions (like free health care or education, for example) and luxuries (Hitler gave everyone a vacation) as appeasements, but this hardly makes anyone equal because there are no labor unions, no civil rights groups, and these concessions are not requested or demanded by the people, nor are they granted in the interests of equality... and often they are only granted in a manner that directly benefits the economic or imperialistic interests of the ruling class.
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