• 新星 [they/them/🏳️‍⚧️]English
    19·
    10 months ago

    I’ll help you out. Here’s Stanley Payne’s definition, courtesy of the Wikipedia article on fascism:

    1. “Fascist negations" – anti-liberalism, anti-communism, and anti-conservatism.
    2. “Fascist goals" – the creation of a nationalist dictatorship to regulate economic structure and to transform social relations within a modern, self-determined culture, and the expansion of the nation into an empire.
    3. “Fascist style” – a political aesthetic of romantic symbolism, mass mobilization, a positive view of violence, and promotion of masculinity, youth, and charismatic authoritarian leadership
    • ForgetPrimacyEnglish
      9·
      10 months ago

      More in depth is Umberto Eco’s essay: Ur Fascism

      One of the attributes I take as, if not essential then at least consistent, is the unanalyzed contradictions within any fascist system.

      Speech should absolutely be always free!

      Unless your speech involves disparaging public figures for transphobic bullshit, that is a crime, or educating children on facts of their own bodies and their right to tell anyone “no”, that’s obviously pedophilia, or actually worst of all even just sitting in your own home and thinking gay thoughts, super crime.

      The only functional economic system is the free market!

      But if a consumer chooses to patronize this brand rather than the transphobic one or some big corporation finds it profitable to speak out publicly against transphobic legislation that isn’t allowed, those are whimp tactics that cheat the market system!

      Men should be men and not sissies afraid to get their hands dirty!

      But I have a bad back so I can’t fix my own car, or my PTSD keeps me from obtaining a stable job and getting off government assistance, or I’d do any of those things everyone must do but the specific problem I have is the only good excuse for why I can’t but anyone else who doesn’t is a lazy whimp.