Oddbean

Mostly agree. But I think adding in "populism" and "anti-immigration sentiment" blurs the lines a bit, opening the door just enough to label the modern right as fascist if you strawman their arguments. https://i.nostr.build/DTDhLbeLDW3voJrS.jpg

I don't really like this definition as it seems to just be a reverse engineering of Nazi Germany rather than the aspects that made it fascist. To me the symbol of the axe with sticks wrapped around it is the starting point. Fascism is about state unity of purpose, everything can be dictated by the state and any opposition can be crushed. While I hate the state so this terrifies me, I think the bundle of bad things means fascism definition misses the mark.

I agree with nostr:nprofile1qqsxzlc2s492eknxfxndjzu2xcwyeug62gxlqz6hdw7dwwygksparmgpzdmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujue3h0ghxjme0qyfhwumn8ghj7mmxve3ksctfdch8qatz9uq36amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wvf5hgcm0d9hx2u3wwdhkx6tpdshs0sfgpp. The cultural Marxists have redefined fascism to fit the western/cultural Marxist ideology of made up "oppressed" people. If cultural Marxist used the real definition people would realize that socialism, fascism and communism are all maggots from the same pile of socialist vomit. There's a reason fascism is also called "National Socialism."

Fascism is for the only liberty which can be a serious thing, the liberty of the state and of the individual in the state. Therefore for the fascist, everything is in the state, and no human or spiritual thing exists, or has any sort of value, outside the state. In this sense fascism is totalitarian, and the fascist state which is the synthesis and unity of every value, interprets, develops and strengthens the entire life of the people. — Benito Mussolini, Giovanni Gentile, Doctrine of Fascism (1932)