I want you to take a close look at this. It combines elements of the platforms/policies of the Democrat Party and the Republican Party. And tell me what parts of this new “third-way” you disagree with:
Okay … I LIED. It is a page from Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism that shows the program of fascism, in its country of birth, at the time it was ruled by one of the progenitors of fascism … BENITO MUSSOLINI.
Fascism is simply the Italian … more specifically, Giovanni Gentile and Benito Mussolini and others … manifestation of “socialism” or collectivism … that system of government which I previously described, in my post explaining that the campus-“protesters” are more akin to Nazis than Marxists, as follows:
a system of governance where there is a ruling class and the rest of society is coercively structured to serve the ruling class under the guise of serving “the common good,” “the State,” “social justice,” “equity,” blah, blah, blah.
All of the “isms” employ censorship. What really makes the modern Left in America akin to fascists is all of the other things it has in common with Gentile/Mussolini fascism. And I am not saying that the entire Italian-fascist program is bad … for example, what’s wrong with repealing titles of nobility; albeit I support that for a very different reason than the Italian-fascists.
One of the differences between fascism and Marxism, that makes the modern Left in America more akin to fascists than to other “isms,” is that fascists believed that government control of the means of production was a better way to manifest socialism than abolishing private ownership.
Excellent thread on this from Tom Elliot that I am reposting:
Memo to my friends in the media covering Italy's elections:
Italian fascism — and especially Mussolini — were not "right wing," but rather another statist/collectivist ideology that was worshipped among left-wing intellectuals of the day.
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 26, 2022
