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ballibmentesovezet:cato-uticensis:the-wife-of-todd-howard:socialistexan:karadin:jackscarab:micdotcom:US Holocaust Museum’s “early warning signs of fascism” sign is going viralThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum wants to make sure that fascism doesn’t make a comeback. A Twitter user snapped a shot of a poster from somewhere inside the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. Judging by dollar sign symbol in the lower right hand corner, the sign looks to be a poster for sale. The poster is derived from a 2003 article detailing the potential warning signs of an incoming fascist regime. Read more.“Controlled mass media” is getting closer with Donald throwing a fit about Twitter fact-checking him.Or the fact that Trump is trying desperately to created his own State Run media, if not through Fox, through OAN and Sinclair Broadcast GroupAlmost all of this was around in America pre-Trump, though. Labor suppression has been as American as apple pie for a century. If anything it was even worse before, in the early 20th century they used to send in the Feds and Pinkertons to literally kill union organizers and massacre striking workers. No need to repress labor when unions are so weak they can barely keep organized and the leadership is apart of the entrenched ruling class. Protection of corporate power? Every US President since Nixon. Obsession with national security and suprmacy of the military? Every President since WW2 (and even before then), we’ve installed an actual General as President before. The Military Industrial Complex didn’t just spring up in the last 3 years. Disdain for Human Rights? That goes back to the beginning.Disdain for intellectuals and the arts? How much funding to we have for schools and arts again? That didn’t happen under Trump. Obsession with Crime and Punishment? The 92 Crime Bill and the War on Drugs, anyone.I could go on. America has been this way for a while, Trump just made you realize it. Trump didn’t cause it, he just didn’t care enough to hide itThere’s one problem: these things do not describe fascism.I’m tired of having to explain to people what fascism is, so I’m going to pin this post so I don’t have to any more.In a sentence fascism is a political ideology which is the authoritarian climax of both rightist and leftist thought. This results in an ideology where the state is supreme. This is why liberals describe rightist as fascist and rightest describe leftist as fascist. In truth they are both right and wrong. As such I will explain why most of this does not mean that fascism is on the rise. 1. Nationalism is not unique to fascism. It is a feature of rightism in general, but not always. The Maoist regard have a great deal of nationalistic fervor for China. So did Charlegamgne’s empire. 2. It’s not accurate to say that fascist disdain human rights, it’s more accurate to say that they think that human rights don’t exist. That being said, fascist are mostly unique in this regard.3. Most ideologies have an enemy to destroy. Hell, femenism has an enemy to destroy. All ideologies need some kind of call to action. And it just so happens that it’s a easier to destroy than to create. 4. They don’t hold the military supreme, they hold the state supreme. Most successful ideologies hold the military as at least very important. 5. Rampant sexism is neither a prerequisite to fascism nor unique to it. One might even say that Nazi women were equal to men in most regards, granted nietger of them had any rights. It’s also funny how there aren’t really any ideologies that claim that women are inferior to men. 6. Controlled mass media is not unique to fascism. Every communist nation is proof enough. 7. Obsession with national security is not unique to fascism. Most states are, national security is kind of necessary for the state to continue to exist. 8. Religion and fascism are not related. While the Japanese and the Spanish had mandated state religions, the Nazis, Hungarians and Italians did not. 9. Fascism is opposed to corporate power, not in support of it. That’s where the “S” in “NSDAP” comes in. Every fascist nation nationalized thier industries and had trade policies which encouraged autarky. Every fascist advocates for the weakening of corporate power.10. Labor rights do tend to be supprssed in fascism, just like every other right. 11. Disdain for intelegencia is not an ideological position. At this point it is a song of having a pulse. 12. Obsession with crime and punishment is not unique to fascism. It’s is just a trait of authoritarian and sometimes moderate ideologies. 14. Corruption is not an ideological position, but op might be on to something in that regard. 15. Fraudulent elections are not a feature of fascism. The Italians and Japanese came to power through a coup, the Spanish came to power through civil war and the Germans and Hungarians came to power legitimately (ignoring the violence of the brown shirts.) 2/15 is not impressive. Do not confuse fascism with authoritarianism. MY DEAR US FELLAS WHO JUST LOVE TO DILUTE THE TERM ‘FASCISM’ PLS DO READ ITthanks -- source link