Comments on: Are Fascists Right-Wing?

By: jeffreak

jeffreak — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:16:53 +0000

goes to show that these tags of left/right are ridiculous and don't apply, they are used to simplify concepts for the under educated and overly emotional masses

By: Mmm hmm

Mmm hmm — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:45:15 +0000

Left-Wingers like to associate the Right with anything and everything that people consider bad. Everyone says that Hitler was a Right-Winger even though the Nazi Party was anti-capitalism and started as the Socialist economic DAP.
Mussolini considered himself an advocate of Third Position. "Third Positionists tend to advocate for the ownership of the means of producing goods and services to be distributed as widely as possible." Goods distributed between the people of the nation... sounds a lot like US (modern) Liberal Welfare system that every Right-Winger hates. We all know that Communism is a left form of politics so there's no need to go into that. The left are masters of demonizing the opposition, it's all they use to get votes. They know that there ideas don't work so they make it out like the right are a bunch of satanists or something.

By: Pal

Pal — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:12:37 +0000

It is a caricature of reality to say that fascism is really a phenomenon of the left and that social democracy is equated with fascism---given that fascism was overwhelmingly an anti-liberalism with an antipathy to all things leftist. Its polemics structured around stereotypes not scholarship. It's an old theme that comes from the Right who refuse to take responsibility of the worst of regimes that they have spawned via their ideology - and to ignore the real American fascism---skinheads, neo-Nazis, the Klu Klux Klan, white supremacists, nativists, the Montana Freemen and right wing militias etc --lurking in the Right's closet. The economic shockwaves are going to continue for some time from the failures of an unfettered financial capitalism, and so the Right are going to contaminate the shift to government intervention and an expansion of the welfare state to deal with unemployment and social unrest with state repression, tyranny and dictatorship. The implication is that anything that enhances the power and reach of the state is bad. Only the state threatens us--not rogue corporations or Wall Street.The economic strategy is to bail out the banks, pay off the bond traders, keep the basic infrastructure working, and make the poorest bear the cost through welfare cuts in phrased steps.

By: jovine

jovine — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:27:58 +0000

The confusion you suffer is that you assume Right = less government, Left = more government, but that is only the 21st century Tea Party definition of left - right. It is not the historical definition and it was not the definition in 1930, either. No one assumed then that fascism = left-wing--least of which Mussolini who described fascism as "of the right" (Doctrines of Fascism, 1932). This TeaParty revisionism is wrong. Just plain wrong.

By: luxfero

luxfero — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:48:57 +0000

whenever a communist, socialist or fascist speaks of liberalism, they mean classical liberalism(freemarketeers)