“The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian.”
“The Fascist State ……makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State.”
The Doctrine of Fascism; Benito Mussolini, 1935
I post this because the use of the word fascism has become banal and amorphous if not meaningless. In fact it can be argued that the word has been bastardized to such an extent that it represents a practical antithesis of fascism in the popular consciousness.
I would propose that we live under something of a technocratic fascist state, governed by collectivist ideology, that oppresses through social division, censorship, intense propaganda, institutionalized indoctrination, regulation and discrimination.
How is trump more or less fascist than any other president, including barack obama? And how does the form of ideological government preferred by contemporary pop-leftists, those casually fling the word fascism around, differ from actual fascism?
“outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist” describes perfectly the puritanical nature of the intersectional ideology, its social program, its indoctrination efforts, and its persecution of heretics. These dime a dozen hot takes on social media scream psychological projection.
