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I wonder if that kind of authoritarianism can already be qualified as fascism. Declared total unity of state, people and industry? Check. Militarism? Check. Ind
by lambdadmitry 9y ago
I wonder if that kind of authoritarianism can already be qualified as fascism. Declared total unity of state, people and industry? Check. Militarism? Check. Indifference to violence? Check. Concentration camps, mass political persecutions, expansionism? All there.
When does it cross the line from bad to Hitler?
- eponeponepon 9y agoThere's no line between bad and Hitler - the Nazis were bad because (in naïve, coarse terms) they crossed the line between bad and good.
- Nomentatus 9y agoSo the NSA was bad - violated the laws and constitution according to the U.S. Courts, therefore we're already at Hitler? What they did was bad. On the road to Hitler, maybe, but not there yet, surely.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> When does it cross the line from bad to Hitler? There's no line; fascism is a subset of bad, not a separate category.
- Nomentatus 9y agoMarx called it "Bonapartism" (after Napoleon), certainly if the authority truly centered upon one leader. He wasn't for it, to say the least.