Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/ FASH-iz-əm) is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement that rose to prominence in early-20th-century Europe.[1][2][3] Fascism is characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.[3][4] Opposed to communism, democracy, liberalism, pluralism, and socialism,[5][6] fascism is at the far right of the traditional left–right spectrum.[1][6][7]
Sure would be a shame if someone swapped out the Hitler picture for Trump’s.
He’s earned it.
Trump is in that picture. That’s him on the left, standing next to himself on the right.
Or put a picture of Trump with Putin.
The explanation is confusing but all fascisms have in common:
- they require a constant enemy, so they are constantly under attack, it is the easiest to attach minorities
- their leader is perceived as THE COUNTRY. Whatever is good for him must be good for the country, he can never be wrong.
Expanding on your first point, when a fascist movement can’t make an enemy of an outgroup anymore, they’ll make a scapegoat of their outermost ingroup instead. And when that stops working they shed the next group and make them the new enemy. Ultimately everyone who’s a part of a fascist movement is seen as disposable by the next rung up the fascist hierarchy, and one by one every ally of the movement will be betrayed by it the instance they’re more valuable outside the movement (or dead) than in it. Fascists can’t actually win, they’ll always implode eventually, but we can all lose.
See Goldstein in 1984. A book no longer taught in high schools.
Umberto Eco described it better
I think the point of posting this is to encourage people to learn about fascism more seriously and not through memes and quotes. Umberto Eco is quoted in the article but find the time and read the whole thing.
