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You can be a fascist without being a Nazi. Fascism is an authoritarian nationalist death cult which glorifies in violence and war, believes in strict competiti
by TheOtherHobbes 6y ago
You can be a fascist without being a Nazi.
Fascism is an authoritarian nationalist death cult which glorifies in violence and war, believes in strict competitive social hierarchies where some people are born inherently and disposably inferior to others, and is deeply threatened by non-conformity.
Fascism is also pro-corporate and anti-localist. And it's fundamentally Romantic and emotional, and deliberately anti-rational.
Nazis were a subset of fascism. The US and Russia both show many signs of same in embryo but without the goose stepping and the silly helmets.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21521958/what-is-fascism-signs-donald-trump https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21521958/what-is-fas...
- varjag 6y agoRussia does tons of goose-stepping. Something Trump also attempted to introduce for 4th July celebrations in America.
- vkou 6y agoA few points. 1. There's a clear continuity of goose-stepping in Russia from a time that long predates Putin. 2. We have goose-stepping in the United States, too, that long predates Trump, and will almost certainly outlast him. It doesn't look like weird one-handed salutes, it looks like a daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.
- varjag 6y ago1. Yes, an influence from 19th century Prussia, notorious proto-fascist state. 2. You can argue for a lot of things metaphorically and perhaps even have a case, but that's not goose-stepping.