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In order to maintain an ever increasing wealth disparity society will have to become more fascist and taxes more confiscatory. To prevent this you simply need t

by zeahfj 10y ago

In order to maintain an ever increasing wealth disparity society will have to become more fascist and taxes more confiscatory. To prevent this you simply need to fight fascism in all its forms (including socialism and political correctness). This is guaranteed to happen eventually as fascist states are inherently unstable.

vkou 10y ago
Oh, we definitely need to fight political correctness. Your god-given right to be a rude motherfucker to whomever you feel like, whenever you feel like, without being subjected to any social censure, must be defended. I just don't understand why we can't call a _______ a _______ in polite company anymore.
- zeahfj 10y ago
  As long as the methods used to uphold political correctness does not use state or taxpayers subsidised institutions then it's ok. That's just normal society organization with freedom of association. If you need to use the state to enforce beliefs on others, that is where it becomes fascist. Socialism is "fascism with a human face", the “The Fascists of the future will be the anti-fascists.” - Winston Churchill.
  - vkou 10y ago
    Winston Churchill is also famous for gems like: "I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion." "[Ghandi] ought to be lain bound hand and foot at the gates of Delhi, and then trampled on by an enormous elephant with the new Viceroy seated on its back." "I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place." If he wanted to find fascism, all he needed to do was look to his treatment of the imperial holdings - something that British socialists were quite eager to point out. If you torture the definition of fascism so far as to include social democracy, then it will also encompass America since the arrival of settlers, centuries of monarchical and parliamentarian Europe...
    - zeahfj 10y ago
      The quote is one I agree with and I thought I should give its origin. I do not agree with everything Winston Churchill has said or done, and I probably disagree with him more than most (even of those on the left). But perhaps some context is in order. At that time India was pretty terrible. E.g. burning at the stake of widows after their husbands died. Even Marx found that the British occupation was a civilizing force. It could be argued that the occupation in its totality and for all of it's faults was a net positive. Obvious fascism is obvious. Which is why George Orwell's books are dedicated to the less obvious fascisms. And it's why I made the point on political correctness, because it's less obvious.

by zeahfj 10y ago

vkou 10y ago

Oh, we definitely need to fight political correctness. Your god-given right to be a rude motherfucker to whomever you feel like, whenever you feel like, without being subjected to any social censure, must be defended. I just don't understand why we can't call a _______ a _______ in polite company anymore.

zeahfj 10y ago
As long as the methods used to uphold political correctness does not use state or taxpayers subsidised institutions then it's ok. That's just normal society organization with freedom of association. If you need to use the state to enforce beliefs on others, that is where it becomes fascist. Socialism is "fascism with a human face", the “The Fascists of the future will be the anti-fascists.” - Winston Churchill.
- vkou 10y ago
  Winston Churchill is also famous for gems like: "I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion." "[Ghandi] ought to be lain bound hand and foot at the gates of Delhi, and then trampled on by an enormous elephant with the new Viceroy seated on its back." "I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place." If he wanted to find fascism, all he needed to do was look to his treatment of the imperial holdings - something that British socialists were quite eager to point out. If you torture the definition of fascism so far as to include social democracy, then it will also encompass America since the arrival of settlers, centuries of monarchical and parliamentarian Europe...
  - zeahfj 10y ago
    The quote is one I agree with and I thought I should give its origin. I do not agree with everything Winston Churchill has said or done, and I probably disagree with him more than most (even of those on the left). But perhaps some context is in order. At that time India was pretty terrible. E.g. burning at the stake of widows after their husbands died. Even Marx found that the British occupation was a civilizing force. It could be argued that the occupation in its totality and for all of it's faults was a net positive. Obvious fascism is obvious. Which is why George Orwell's books are dedicated to the less obvious fascisms. And it's why I made the point on political correctness, because it's less obvious.