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signs of incipient fascism


Fascism is a political ideology with no core doctrine, being largely a similarity cluster of beliefs and values which generally result in a totalitarian political state which controls all capital and labor. Fascist states have generally been archetypal examplars of centralized economic planning.

The primary psychological motivation behind fascism appears to be worship of political power for its own sake, and the use of force to increase and maintain social inequality. It is the ultimate expression of right-wing ideology.


  • Although communism is often cited as the prime example of centralized state control, such control in fact goes against the ideas of statelessness and collective ownership of the means of production, both of which are central tenets of communism.
  • Liberal fascism is a self-contradictory troll phrase




—Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Simple Truths" message to Congress, 1938-04-29


Benito Mussolini (unconfirmed)

...when a rather mainstream person like Robert Skidelsky, the biographer of Keynes, describes the early postwar systems as modeled on fascism, he simply means a system in which the state integrates labor and capital under the control of the corporate structure.

That's what a fascist system traditionally was. It can vary in the way it works, but the ideal state that it aims at is absolutist -- top-down control with the public essentially following orders.

Noam Chomsky [1][2]


—Stephen Schwartz [3]


If fascism could be defeated in debate I assure you that it would never have happened, neither in Germany nor Italy nor anywhere else.

—Frank Frinson, holocaust survivor (via)


Adolf Hitler (via)