Best fascism books according to redditors
We found 37 Reddit comments discussing the best fascism books. We ranked the 25 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
9. The Authoritarian Dynamic (Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology)
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> Sorry, I depend on science and facts
You should read The magical thinking of guys who love logic. "Science" is not the be-all and end-all of human knowledge.
There is no existing "science" which will accurately predict what the 327 million people of the United States are going to do politically and socially over the next few years, so if your standard for taking action is to wait for the science, you're going to sit around like a useless lump while the United States travels a very dark path.
> Especially when the op actually claims science supports such statements with at least one model and analysis.
That's not what they claimed. They described a "consensus among scholars and survivors." There are plenty of scholars who are not scientists, as you'll see below. What op is referring to is presumably the many warnings that have indeed been raised by scholars and survivors, of which the OP post is one. I'll list just a few of the more prominent ones, but if you search, you'll find many more.
I'll also point out that it takes effort to produce such a list, so if you take the fact that people you're arguing with just don't bother, perhaps because they perceive you as not worth the effort, you're going to find yourself wallowing in ignorance while at the same time thinking you know it all. Which is precisely the problem that gets us into situations like the current one. If you want to be part of the solution, you have to take responsibility for educating yourself better.
This is basically what the Americans did for the 1932 'holodomor famine' in Ukraine.
The Hearst press (Randolph Heart was a nazi sympathiser) sent a man called Thomas Walker to Ukraine for the 1932 famine.
Except it turns out 'Thomas Walker' wasnt Thomas Walker and that he only spent two weeks in the Soviet Union during the wrong season for the famine in 1931(not 1932) and that his passport was only stamped for Moscow. In other words if he left for Ukraine from Moscow given the travel at the time he wouldnt have made it in two weeks let alone to Ukraine and back to Moscow.
This all came out in the 1930s when Thomas Walker was arrested for something else and it came out he used photos from the Austrian and russian famines after world war 1(1910s and 1920s) as the 'Holodomor famine'(1932). The US court case revealed him as an escaped convict called Robedt Green. His faked tabloid fraud spreading nazi propaganda.
This is all completely detailed in Douglas Totttles Fraud, Famine and Fascism
https://www.amazon.com/Fraud-Famine-Fascism-Ukrainian-Genocide/dp/0919396518
An incredible online article which references the above book and goes into detail on how this propaganda (that the soviets deliberately starved Ukraine...In the same way the west state Mao deliberately starved China after Mao and the communists ended the 100 years humiliation of western, opiod addicted rule) is this one
https://lorenzoae.wordpress.com/2017/10/11/on-russia-todays-liberals/
End of story right? 'Thomas Walker' is exposed as a fraud in an American court. Nope.
The degenerate West then used this story as anti Soviet propaganda for another 50 years. Robert Conquest in his Harvest of Sorrow consistently references 'Thomas Walker'.
Anne Applebaum ( a new historian) references Thomas Walker in a book out in 2019 called Red Famine
The Pale Faces have no shame.
Ja, von Dinesh d'Souza: "The Big Lie"
Meintest du wahrscheinlich nich, ist mir aber in den Sinn gekommen.
Worth the read.
If you have not yet read "The Authoritarians", I strongly urge you to do so. It's better formatted if you buy a print version.
The article references Karen Stenner's "The Authoritarian Dynamic". This seems to have been around the same time as Bob Altemeyer's work. I'm grabbing it.
The gist of the article is simply that the deeper problem here is Authoritarianism.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/07/michael-moore-compares-trump-to-hitler-in-new-documentary---.html
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/5/17940610/trump-hitler-history-historian
https://www.amazon.com/Trump-Hitler-Consideration-Horace-Bloom/dp/1542586879
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7450961/donald-trump-adolf-hitler-secret-nephew-interview/
https://abc.go.com/shows/the-view/video/pl5554876/VDKA0_0y3fb3ob
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_9Faxz1s5g
You know a latin word doesn't mean a political structure. Classical liberalism developed in the early 19th century, about 1800 years after the Romans.
And knowing what freedom means is one thing, but putting it into practice it certainly doesn't mean "no external regulations on any business between consenting people." Between you and I if I make a widget and you like widget and want to buy it-- what are you going to buy it with? Money? did we make the money? Agree on its value? or is that an external regulation? What if you're making a product next to my kids daycare, and it starts poisoning my kid and all my neighbours kids? Are we free to not be poisoned? Or does your freedom over-ride my kids? You concent to sell your product to another concenting people, but if you poison my land and water and life in the process of your freedom we have two choices; either we regulate, or we come after you with pitchforks.
>Fascist commonly means authoritarian
Utter BS, broflake. Fascist has a definition. Especcially an economic definition. Sure they end up authoritarian and dictatorial (like kings and communists) but the common meaning is the $$$
Maybe read some Guerin or get your hands on Harvard's breakdown heck, even SohnRethel's Economy and Class Structure of German Fascism could help you clarify what's happening. Though don't overlook Arthur Schweitzer's Big Business in the Third Reich. If you read these and still think the antifa are the fascists now, there may be no hope for smusalmon.
When you've finished having your mental breakdown read The Doctrine of Fascism
HR Morgan's work is great too.
Whenever you're ready to stop being ignorant and talking a load of shite about stuff you literally know nothing about you should take the time to read those, it will help you to avoid these little tantrums your ego puts you through when you're embarrassed about your ignorance.
> I mean I don't get it ? Who said it was a conspiracy theory ?
I've rust read some stuff yesterday related to arcana imperii, which literally means secrets of those in power/governing the State, in a book called Dictatorship, written by a (pretty smart) guy who was thought to be the Nazis' jurist:
> The most important example of the arcana literature is the book by Arnold Clapmar [1574-1604], which has been cited in seventeenth century as the standard work. In it the issue is analyzed with care and in detail, by its methodological aspects. With reference to the phrase arcana imperii ['secrets of power/secrets of the state'], which Tacitus uses in Annales (1.2) to describe the clever politics of Tiberius, this authority says, to begin with, that every scientific discipline - theology, jurisprudence, business, fine art, the art of war, or medicine - has its arcane. In all these disciplines we find certain tricks; they employ even cunning and betrayal in order to achieve their goal. But in the state certain events are always necessary that conjure the impression of freedom, simulacra or decorative occasions designed to pacify the population.
> Arcana republicae (secrets of the republic) are, in contrast to the obvious motives that appear from the outside, the inner forces of the state. According to the understanding that was common at the time, these are not some social and economic forces above the person; no, the motor of global history is the interest of the prince and of his secret council, a carefully prepared plan of those who govern and seek to maintain both themselves and the state - a plan whereby the power of the governors, the common good, and public order and security are one and the same, in a natural way.
(some of the italics added by me)
At least we can rest assured that the guys (they're mostly guys) governing us today are doing it based on centuries-old theories, not some made-up, modern stuff. And the simulacra and the decorative occasions designed to pacify us have also got a lot more interesting compared to what one could find in 17-th century Europe, I'm sure of that.
It seems like you're operating under a mistaken assumption I'm arguing against libertarianism. That is not the case. FFS, I voted libertarian in the last three presidential elections. (Yes, I voted for Bob Barr, to my eternal shame). I'm arguing against the shift towards right-wing authoritarianism in the libertarian movement.
I'm amazed that you are unaware that the libertarian movement is openly courting white nationalists. The LP of Florida has pretty much been taken over by fascists. Their chair resigned after a no-confidence vote was taken because he didn't like that Augustus Invictus -- an actual, literal fascist -- was involved with the party.
Mises president Jeff Deist wrote an article using the phrase "blood and soil". A week later, the white nationalists marching in Charlottesville were chanting that very phrase.
There is currently a large movement to remove National LP chair Nicholas Sarwark not because he is a fascist, but because he spoke out against the party's courting of right-wing authoritarians.
In this very thread there is a virtual wall of links -- written by a libertarian organization -- detailing the party's drastic shift toward right-wing collectivism.
How you can be unaware of this problem is beyond me. This is currently a huge issue being covered by virtually all libertarian publications. FEE's Jeffrey Tucker recently published a book about the problem. There is simply no excuse for anyone even peripherally interested in libertarianism to not know about this issue.
https://www.amazon.com/Doctrine-Fascism-Benito-Mussolini/dp/1682040054
Give it a read. Its really short, and reads like the democratic party platform.
Some more recent releases are:
Deirdre McCloskey - Bourgeois Equality
Jeffrey Tucker - Right Wing Collectivism
William Irwin - The Free Market Existentialist
Tyler Cowen - The Complacent Class
Roderick Long - Rituals of Freedom: Libertarian Themes in Early Confucianism
Peter Boettke - Living Economics
Jacob T. Levy - Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom
Arnold Kling - Specialization and Trade
George H. Smith - Freethought and Freedom
Benjamin Powell -The Economics of Immigration
Michael Munger - Tomorrow 3.0
Lindsey & Teles - The Captured Economy
Brennan & Jaworski - Markets without Limits
Coyne & Hall - Tyranny Comes Home
Douma & Magness - What Is Classical Liberal History?
Hart et al. - Social Class and State Power
uhhhhh, this is awkward
Part 1
Nine questions posed to you and you didn't answer any of them. Not even one! You didn't even attempt to, because you have no clue how. And yet you actually think you're in a position to argue some kind of case. That's sad. Your "number of errors per sentence" is remarkably high. Your comment is based on nothing substantial, except uninformed sophistry and arrogant cretinism. Shall we dissect it anyway?
>Essentially the universe is made of nothing. We only exist because of the nature of zero. WOW
You're getting closer. Well done? In fact, the universe is made of mathematics. We exist because of ontological mathematics and the PSR (Principle of Sufficient Reason).
>You don't think that concept has already been done before?
OM has been approached in part by Pythagoras, Leibniz, Hegel, Godel et al but no, the field of OM is entirely new to the public domain. It would be disingenuous of you to try to claim otherwise. Also, you are reducing OM to a soundbite "We exist because of zero", when in fact it is much more than that. The implications of OM are massive. OM replaces science, and in time will create far superior technology than science ever did. It is an entirely new paradigm. Rather than dismissing OM as wrong or as some sinister conspiracy, now you're trying to dismiss it as "obvious". More sophistry.
>The math way is just boring. Nobody likes math.
(Oh really? We do.) There's the human problem in a nutshell. Mathematics is the truth, yet the hordes of irrational Dunning-Kruger types reject the Truth because they don't "like" mathematics. It doesn't fit with their emotions, senses and mysticism. It doesn't fit with their semantic, irrational biases.
>And yes, I do actually understand most of this bullshit, and it's still bullshit no matter how confusing it can be at first. What an assumption it is for you to say I don't
You're changing your tune, aren't you? - now that you realize that you're hopelessly intellectually outmatched. If you actually understood OM and the PSR, you wouldn't be dismissing it as "bullshit", would you? Ergo, you don't understand it. Sad. What an assumption? It's obvious from every sentence that you wrote that you don't understand OM, didn't try to, perhaps you aren't even able to (as an extreme Sensory type, and anomic troll). What an assumption for you to assume that you know more than history's greatest geniuses - Leibniz et al. What a hilariously wrong Dunning-Kruger assumption for you to believe that you can use reason to fight against the PSR (reason!), and attempt to dismiss a position as "bullshit" when you still clearly know nothing about it!
>I'm not allowed to have an opinion??? [more whining]
Yes, you're "allowed to have your opinion". (Which is subjective, anti-rational, and formed from Dunning-Kruger misconceptions). But your opinion is objectively wrong.
>I disagreed with rationalism
Bingo. You out yourself clearly (you did before as well of course) as irrational. You are literally pitting yourself (and your subjective Dunning-Kruger opinions) against reason, against rationalism, against the PSR. How deluded can you get?
>you responded quite dogmatically
Awww... little troll got your feelings hurt? What a world, when being rational is considered being "dogmatic".
>I'm not wrong in having an opinion ... I'm not just a troll. People aren't just one single thing.
Yes you are. Your insistence on subjective, objectively wrong opinions (i.e. they go against the Principle of Sufficient Reason) shows that you are a Sophist, anomic troll, relativist, and an "all truths" charlatan. You're right, you're not just one thing! But being a troll (as you admitted yourself) shapes your entire "identity".
>Meritocracy is not some brand new idea
As elucidated by Adam Weishaupt and Michael Faust, yes it is. More charlatanry, sophistry, and strawman attacks. Keep throwing your paper planes at an adamantium fortress of logic and reason.
>It's generally how society actually works
Is this satire? Society at present is completely anti-meritocratic: a quagmire of nepotism, cronyism and entrenched elites. Now, maybe people say society is a "meritocracy", but as you've shown all too clearly, just because someone says something doesn't make it true. Review basic logic 101.
>anything else in the world with any form of a hierarchy functions because of a merit based system
No, virtually all hierarchies function based on the Peter Principle, on nepotism/cronyism, and plutocracy. It's deeply ingrained - the Old World Order has made sure of it. Meritorious candidates from unprivileged backgrounds for the most part don't stand a chance, or they may get "lucky" - but all the odds are stacked against them, in order to benefit a rigged cartel of plutocratic, dynastic elites passing on their wealth via inheritance and trust funds, and giving each other all the top jobs. There is no genuine meritocracy anywhere in the world. How can you be so simple as to claim that an anti-meritocracy is somehow a "meritocracy"? Do you just not know what the word means? Or are you so desperate to attack Hyperianism / Illuminism and troll us that you'll cling to any risible nonsense, no matter how irrational?
https://www.amazon.com/OWO-Anti-Elite-Book-Adam-Weishaupt-ebook/dp/B005VU2UMA
>You guys are really going to save the world by forcing the world to work the way it already does
The world currently functions as an anti-meritocracy. Our meritocracy is the complete opposite. Get a grip.
>That's the reality factor, known as stupidity
No, stupidity is your entire comment history. What you're actually referring to is nepotism and cronyism i.e. anti-meritocracy. And even if you did have a case, we can eliminate stupidity (=anti-meritocracy). It's defeatist and ridiculous to claim otherwise.
>there will never be a fix for stupidity
Here we go again with the defeatist and nihilistic claptrap. How irrational and in fact utterly useless to sit on your ass and claim "well, that can never be solved.. nothing can ever be solved.. wow, you're trying to solve it? look at you, you moron, you! everyone knows nothing can ever be fixed. the problems are too great. just sit on your ass like me. changing things doesn't work. just give up already".
What an utter and pathetic loser. What, are you going to whine about me being "mean" to you again? If you don't like the fire, get the fuck off the oven. It's not my role to indulge whiny and irrationally persistent trolls.
I actually agree with you about Bugliosi . . . that he's a stooge . . . especially in the case of Manson.
I just thought he summarized the facts in a good way and his skepticism may be warranted in this one instance.
Btw, a good source on Manson that questions Bugliosi's claims is "Mindfuckers" -- that also discusses Mel Lyman and Victor Baranco. It's a great book expanding on original Rolling Stone articles.
>One of my friends who is a "limited government" libertarian told me the problem with anarchy is that it will lead to more government. I of course responded, well that seems to be the problem with limited government too.
So, anarchy leads to government (probably always to an extent, but there are examples of anarcho societies that have existed longer than the United States has been a nation). Limited government leads to more government. And more government leads to more government. Therefore we're all fucked?
>There seems to be noway in preventing this band of criminals from taking over society. It seems that man is just doomed to live in tyranny.
Eh, not really. History is cyclical -- it has no (universal) end. Fukuyama was wrong about that, and an asshole. Mises, Hayek and Flynn were right: government leads to more government, and liberty is abandoned at home. Such societies reach a stage of cultural and economic stagnation.
Heinlein probably nailed it best in -- or at least perhaps most famously -- in speculative fiction. Various works of his explore political systems as changing depending upon how far away from home you are. People join together to form tribes, and they live in villages. Villages grow into towns, towns into cities, cities into kingdoms / nations. Nations into empires. Empires collapse, and political life becomes more local again.
And, as people become politically frustrated, economically or religiously oppressed, or more adventurous (as a result of accumulated wealth), they begin to explore the frontier, and so the process starts all over again in another place. That's the cycle of history.
For western civilization, the exploration took Europeans around the world, and founded colonies in the Americas. Wealth accumulated. Government grew, as economies were able to support it. And much of the developing world was lifted up with us. So now we're starting to explore the next frontier: space.
Liberty will again reign, just not here. The beauty of it this time, however, is that space is practically infinite. Space will be free.
while you're busy tossing books around, I would highly suggest this one.
Over the course of the last year I have had 3 morbid examples of bad living situations. I think the universe is telling me something.... like clean up your credit and apply for the IT job you are avoiding because you don't like working with IT guys.... yes I have a degree and the employment background which is why I am avoiding getting back to that career path.
I am considering writing a small saga of bad living situations.
After leaving my mother's house (she had major surgery, recovered, went back to work, then as I was just starting a job) she took her boyfriend's advice to "tinker" with the electrical wiring in the kitchen and massively injured herself ended up in rehab after 2 weeks recovering from burns/being electrocuted and the house had to be partially rebuilt. Mind you this is the second time she has done this.
So I move into a friend's place I have known for 5 years. He's an open-minded free spirited and spiritual air line pilot. He's into shamanic drumming, reiki and what I didn't understand what it actually was "orgasmic massage". I kid you not.
https://www.amazon.com/Mindfuckers-Fascism-Including-Material-Followers/dp/0879320389
One of the main cult leaders chronicaled in the book is Victor Baranco, he taught the 4 hour extended female orgasm to Nicole Deadone. She in turn knew this friend of mine in the 80s when he was stationed in Hawaii as an airforce pilot. Search "Clit cult" on gawker.com
Naturally the friend of mine who is a pilot spent 5 of 7 months pressuring me to move to Sanfrancisco to live at the "One Taste" commune so he can visit regularly. I think he's banned from the place. Needless to say I haven't spoke to him again except to inform him I am blocking his number and to not contact me again.
Next was a house owned by a woman who claimed to be a social worker, a licensed social worker with a bachelors degree.
Neither which was true, she didn't actually live in the house and renting out rooms when she doesn't live there is illegal. I also checked with 8 states if she was licensed as a social worker, then the university she claims to attend isn't offering a masters degree in the field she claimed, so its obvious she is working on her undergrad degree. She mostly rented to people in substance abuse rehab on social security and was looking to get away from that.
Problem was the guy she left in charge of the place was on parole from federal prison who regularly relapses from meth. Methodone by the way is a hell of a drug to help people get their meth addiction under control. It makes them psychotic, and their bowel movements smell like a 4 month old rotting corpse. My bedroom was next to the bathroom and shared a vent. I nearly died from the stench.
The meth head threatened to make my life miserable living there, I recorded it sent it to the landlord and she told me it wasn't legal to record. Well this is a single party consent state, its legal. The meth head also hated the landlord yet wanted to fuck her. The meth head hated all women. Yet the landlord defended the meth head because he was in a large rehab and she volunteered there, hoping that if this guy 13 years into 15 years of parole turned himself around she'd get the credit thus an actual job within the state. Landlord worked in a different stated because she had looked for work for almost 2 years in this state, thus had to actually take any work she could.
I didn't mention there was a Nigerian living there as well who was an investment sales person who wanted me to believe he was the most buff, handsome and richest person I could know. Yet he took public transit like me and rented a room in a house just like me. I know the work he did, its pure commission and that's why his girlfriend and brother was paying his bills.
At least at the last house the landlord demanded neither roommate speak to me because she didn't want to risk me recording more audio of threats.
Now this place. I won't describe it in detail but its all audio recorded and I have photos of the immense shitload of mess the DANCOroommates made all summer long.
I also have court in 2 weeks because the girlfriend of the DANCOroommate is contesting the HRO I have against her. And some fucker applied for a discover card in my former married name (I got a divorce a decade ago) with the current address I live at.
The DANCOroommate had this nuts idea that my ex husband would testify against me at the HRO hearing so they are trying to find him.
Its pretty obvious both of the DANCOroommates are using skip tracing and applying for credit cards in my former married name to commit identity theft/bank fraud (which is the very first criminal conviction for the guy) to ruin me and to find out everything about me.
Not going into detail about the roommate/landlord who is running around bitching at me, because he's just a spoiled brat who won't pay child support even if he has told his father he needs more money to pay that child support, and he gets the money. It just never makes it to the county. I've tried to certified mail my rent payments to him, he won't pick up the certified mail (possibly because he's afraid it might be related to his child support case) and in the last couple days that certified mail was supposed to be returned to me at the house.... The certified mail with the rent hasn't shown up. I think the landlord took it. He has bizarre idea that money orders are like german barabonds and that they cannot be traced nor proven when the money order was purchased/made. So that's going to make him look crazy when I take him to small claims court.
I think I am at the point in my life that it can't get much worse. My divorce was bittersweet, this is absurd.
after I get a my own apartment, change jobs, clean up credit (possibly freeze my credit for a while), I will work on getting a federal job and move out of the mid west entirely. I've been told by a friend who is an attorney from DC (he travels for work, non-profit legal advocacy) that most of what have been through this last few months would be swiftly taken care of by law enforcement and courts. That either one of them would be in jail right now because enforcement is so much better outside of this Midwest hell hole.
The state I live in has to get better about providing affordable housing and enforcing laws. And yeah I am writing a book on this. Fuck it enough of its audio recorded.
On a positive note. I have good friends. I have repaired my relationship with my ex husband, my first fiancée (he's a shrink in the prison system, yeah he's had a good laugh at this), I am ready to move forward do some growing up and take steps careerwise and financially. Eventhough I am very good at my job, it doesn't pay well and its been rocky business as my bosses close an unproductive side venture; I was very angry at my bosses for their unfulfilled promises. It drained me, now that I have so much other stuff to be angry with my focus is much more in front of me, not fighting to make right on promises broken. I am much more able to leave things behind me.
Grandest_Inquisitor: ^^original ^^reddit ^^link
I actually agree with you about Bugliosi . . . that he's a stooge . . . especially in the case of Manson.
I just thought he summarized the facts in a good way and his skepticism may be warranted in this one instance.
Btw, a good source on Manson that questions Bugliosi's claims is "Mindfuckers" -- that also discusses Mel Lyman and Victor Baranco. It's a great book expanding on original Rolling Stone articles.
Actually, again you have yet to provide anything conclusive to prove your claims, and again ignored the core of my post. I said that this was a tiny smidge of easily accessible data. So no front, you just need to not be lazy. Again you ignore anything that clearly proves you wrong, honestly I dont even know why I bother since you are clearly so deluded you cannot even read, let alone respond to anything outside your own (completely false) narrative.
Again nothing ad-hominem just observations any sane person would make about your replies. Your like one of those spineless politicians, when asked an uncomfortable question, you give a totally unrelated answer.
So yeah you want some book recommendations? Here you go:
http://www.amazon.com/Germany-After-First-World-War/dp/0198219385
http://www.amazon.com/Paris-1919-Months-Changed-World/dp/0375508260
http://www.amazon.com/Great-War-Modern-Memory/dp/0195133323/sr=8-1/qid=1158256555/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-5230486-6363002?ie=UTF8&s=books
http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Third-Reich-Richard-Evans/dp/B000HOJGLI/sr=1-4/qid=1158258029/ref=sr_1_4/102-5738646-8788965?ie=UTF8&s=books
http://www.amazon.com/Nazism-Fascism-Working-Class-Timothy/dp/0521437873
http://www.amazon.com/Fascist-Ideology-Territory-Expansionism-1922-1945/dp/0415216125
There are plenty more, but the expansionist rhetoric of the fascist states, especially Germany can not be overlooked. In addition early German planning to not fight a multi-front again indicates that they were indeed aware of a coming conflict in which they would be aggressors. Did they want to fight the powers they did? Well arguments can be made either way but certainly I'm sure they would rather have just been given massive tracks of land, hence the negotiations with England.
So unless you have some documents that show otherwise, this drastic oversimplification that Germany was merely responding to polish aggression is as I have said, nonsense.
The "literal definition" from Wikipedia?
By that definition, not only Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy were fascist, but a number of non-democratic regimes of the 20th century would have to be classified as fascist. While the Krelim's current rhetoric is imperialistic, bellicose and nationalistic, this is still far from amounting to an ideology of revolutionary ultra-nationalism, which is the most consensual definition of facism available in international comparative fascist studies today (if you're interested, I can recommend this one). If Putin's administration is fascist, how should one label all those Russian right-wing extremists who complain that its policies are too liberal and pro-Western?
For example, ideologies of national rebirth, which are very common in fascist countries, were present in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, but an official and openly proclaimed ultra-nationalist ideology of national rebirth which resembles the grandiose fantasies about an imminent restoration of national greatness is lacking in Russia.
Nationalistic, militaristic and authoritarian leaders existed long before fascism was introduced to the world. Those traits may share some common ground with fascism, but to call someone fascist based just on that is plain wrong. Maybe when he begins introducing corporatism, banning labour unions and imprisoning the entire communist party will it become reasonable to call him fascist.
>Read a book.
Here's one
Amazon has an overpriced paperback version:
https://www.amazon.com/Doctrine-Fascism-Benito-Mussolini/dp/1682040054
I'm not sure why you would bother buying it, though. The Doctrine of Fascism is more of a pamphlet than a "book." It's so short that you can just print out a PDF and read it, if you really want a physical copy.
Why don't you consider Third-Positionism?
Wow. there's a lot to unpack there. Lots of anger. You know what'd be awesome? Links. As is your post looks like a psycho rant on a post that's been posted 3 times.
This is how you do it:
People call Trump Hitler (your words, not mine, I'd just call him Fascist). Because he marginalizes free press. He also lies a lot and calls himself a nationalist. There's also articles and books written on this (and even updated!).
While it's certainly a smear (Trump is just almost a fascist). It still holds a lot more validity than this rant.
I'd be happy to, but you all invited me. Sort of. By insulting me. Here's some reading for you in the meantime: https://www.amazon.com/Fraud-Famine-Fascism-Ukrainian-Genocide/dp/0919396518
Not literally Hitler? Were you even around during the travel ban? What about right after the election, when ecstatic Trump supporters beat up Muslims and spraypainted swastikas everywhere? "Make America White Again", they said.
If you're admitting he's not Hitler, that is a HUGE step forward and a big win for Trump.
> “Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline [every Trump speech], humiliation or victimhood [Mexican rapists invading our borders] and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity [Make America GREAT Again!], in which a massed-based party of committed nationalist militants [Trump’s base], working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites [GOP], abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion [violent political rallies, torture, walls, seizing oil fields in Iraq].”
Just look at these images - come on, moving up from Hitler to incompetent boob is a gargantuan upgrade. What's next, "I don't agree with him but he's not that bad"?
> The most historical figure most commonly referred to as an analogue to Donald Trump is Adolf Hitler. Instead of dismissing the parallels, isn't it time that we confront them, and consider them seriously?
-- Trump and Hitler: A Responsible Consideration (2017)
I don't know why you're getting downvoted for a documented fact
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1500555487/
No, De Gaulle fought the Nazis. Big difference. Especially since the West continues to embrace Fascism.
Edit: looks like a lot of you don't know what fascism is.
Funny, I thought, "This kid has been lobbed the ultimate softball." The Anti-defamation league, People for the American Way, LA Times editorial staff, etc. live for a story like this. The major battles were all won decades ago, so it must be increasingly difficult to justify liberal paranoia over the encroachment of the religious right. Finding a backwater school district in New Jersey is perfect for them. One phone call and the entire establishment tastes the blood in the water. This kid will have no trouble getting into the college of his choice.
The entire idea of anyone trusting public school education is incredible to me. No one trusts Exxon-Mobil for climatology, why do people trust the state for government and history?
When a student gets in the LA Times for arguing that pledging to the flag constitutes an illegal civic religion, then I will be impressed. Even better would be challenging the schools for not teaching the other [biography of FDR](http://www.amazon.com/As-we-marching-John-Flynn/dp/09141560040, the skepticism over climate change, or the dangers of progressivism.
This kid may be brave on some level, but he is also the ultimate tool of the system.