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originally posted by: BobAthome
"You think, it is right " no, but it is real rebelution, so anything can happen,
,thats why its called chaos. And death follows with it.
a reply to: Siddharta
originally posted by: Siddharta
originally posted by: Vovin
the very definition of fascism is a political system where the social order is structured where a minority (aka the rich under capitalism) make the laws and run the government.
No, it is not. Fascism is simply spreading hate and calling for war and death on people, you don't like. And this is what you do all the time here.
Fascism also means using every lie to prove that the killing of other people is right. It is NEVER right.
Fascism does not accept any other view of what happens and always uses every mean to show, that the ones, who are thought to be killed, are the evil. Fascim also means, there is no way to talk anymore, beacuse this never is the goal of fascims. They want to kill their opponents and are not interested in talking.
originally posted by: Xcathdra
a reply to: SurrenderingAmerica
Its a 28 second video.
No context..
What caused it...
Who is the person was who was being "beaten"
Who was the person doing the beating
There is nothing in the video that supports your claim.
originally posted by: Vovin
If you had any education on the subject of political ideology you would know that fascism is a description of a political system with specific attributes that make it different from other political systems.
originally posted by: Siddharta
originally posted by: Vovin
If you had any education on the subject of political ideology you would know that fascism is a description of a political system with specific attributes that make it different from other political systems.
"Specific attributes"? Yes.
1. Extend the power, until there is no more oposition.
2. Get rid of free speech, get control over all media.
3. Spread fear and hatred against minorities.
4. Threaten neighboring countries and annex parts or the whole.
5. Use all propaganda means to accuse other powers, the countries you threaten and - not to forget - the minorities - of all the guilt.
(6. Climax and end.)
Wrote 6. in brackets, because I hope, we don't need that step again.
BTW an interesting read at buzzfeed:
Documents Show How Russia’s Troll Army Hit America
originally posted by: Siddharta
a reply to: Vovin
Odd, how this thread started with calling the Maidan fascists and now you are trying to tell me, fascism was an ideology, which could have been a good thing if it hadn't always turned out bad.
But that's okay. I wanted to give you my checklist to check out, which countries and groups fit the most. I see, you understood that very well.
originally posted by: Vovin
I really don't think it's worth my time to sit here and describe the differences between deterministic and humanistic thought paradigms though to somebody who chooses not to understand the distinct attributes of fascist political ideology well enough to identify fascism in practice, as you have utterly failed to have done in your analysis of Ukraine.
originally posted by: Vovin
a reply to: Siddharta
1920s Germany would be my case for "good" fascism. Germany's imperial rivals (like France) ravaged Germany as a state after WWI, decimating German economy and society. The Germans were put in a position where they had to adopt some kind of reactionary platform to rebuild themselves.
Of course, the choice was communism or fascism. Communism terrified the western empires, so they did much to foster and invest in the fascist movement in Germany to counter reactionary communism in the USSR.
The "good" thing about the German fascists is that they were immensely popular in Germany because they were able to not only rebuild the country, but they were able to make Germany into a much more technologically and ideologically strong nation than any other country at the time.
The problem was that the creators of the Nazi ideology were extremely radical and tried to push an extreme form of German nationalism onto the rest of the world with force. I'm not an expert with history, but I would say that the "good" boost of fascism in Germany ended around the mid 1930s, when the goal of rebuilding the country turned into the goal of vengeance against the empires that destroyed it.
History could have gone differently if the Nazi party was replaced during this shift in policy. However, the Nazis were thought to be invaluable to the west as a force that could stop the communists. But their creation turned on them instead.
My viewpoint now, of Ukraine, is similar. The western empires are trying to empower right-wing extremists in Ukraine to fight Russia, but history clearly shows that right-wingers do not see themselves as tools controlled by anybody. It is absurd to believe that the neo-Nazis in Ukraine will serve American interests after (or if) they establish Ukraine as a fascist powerhouse. Just like how the Islamofascists around the Middle East are on America's side in one region and considered terrorists in another.