@@gary3936 They condemned everyone who was not them. Stalin killed Communists in the soviet union. They called Jews Socialists and Communists, I know that you are not saying it but with your argument I can make the claim that you think that Jews are Socialist and Communist. Secondly it is about political power, why would you want other people with the same ideas as you but with less murder to rise up. I can point out that they killed Capitalists as they were seen as greedy, especially at a time where millions of Germans were starving and unemployed. Furthermore there is a thing called the conservative left as well as a thing called the progressive right. Conservative and progressive is not just a left right thing, after all conservative values fuel into nationalism as it promotes the family the responsibilities of men and women and helpfully an increase in the population. Also the video points out the origins of Fascism as being National Socialism made by a leftist philosopher and taken up by ex-Socialists in Mussolini case and on that same video the claim that Fascism is right wing is made.
@@LeDomge The Doctrine of Fascism is an essay by Gentile and Mussolini. It's short and you can read it online. Reading it would open your eyes that Dinesh here is full of it. Eg what Fascists mean by the state is not the same as Dinesh's liberal concept of the state, but that doesn't stop him from obfuscating the two so that he can spout scare quotes.
@@damianich4824 Define what facists mean by "state" then. Re-reading the Doctrine of Fascism, even with your quote in mind, there is zero evidence I can see that it refers to anything but a centralized authority which restricts individual rights and freedoms, which is everything the Righti in America is against.
No this video is wrong. The left is about social equality and less social hierarchy. The right is about higher social hierarchy. Please don't listen to liars like De Souza. Do your own research. Google it! Capitalism creates a hierarchy between rich and poor and fascism creates a hierarchy between the dominant race and the inferior race as it tries to establish a "strictly regimented society" THAT IS THE DEFINITION OF FASCISM!!!, therefore FASCISM IS ON THE RIGHT! Sources: Fascism: www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism&ved=2ahUKEwj6l6_Ag5bhAhVNgUsFHRDsDXoQmhMwAXoECAwQAg&usg=AOvVaw0HIctDKg0QEsh2HI1lOpuu Right wing politics: www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_politics&ved=2ahUKEwiL2o-thJbhAhXaZCsKHc6KCfwQFjABegQIERAE&usg=AOvVaw1SFb8sEqPd6ShF6FPd0yal Left wing politics: www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics&ved=2ahUKEwi91eC_hJbhAhVZVH0KHcQWCxQQFjABegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw1CC52nvXPBfINuBaPNOHM3
@@kalanaherath3076 You're incorrect. All this video did was explain points of view of specific people. Not what they actually are. At least attempt to pay attention. Fascism doesn't have an entirely definite definition. It was all interpretation by different people. Each form that took place was different. It does not really equate to strictly left or right.
@@Andre-yu3rb Except you know... Jreg isn't really a fan of PragerU... Unless you're speaking "in character" and when he's speaking in favor of political extremism of all sides. I mean he's making the joke of leftist being nazis in that horseshoe theory video referencing the Nazbol movement. Don't forget that Nazis invented the "Jewish Bolshevism" conspiracy theory, blaming Jews for socialism and communism. Not to suggest that only right-wingers can be anti-Semitic. Stalin was anti-Semitic too, but neither Hitler nor Mussolini, nor Hirohito was socialist. They all spoke about the glory of the past. "Make Rome great again" and "Make the Empire (Reich) great again" was among their slogans.
@@katla3393 Did you not watch the video? You may be a proud fascist but most faccists are trying to go under the radar and trick people who don't want fascism into furthering the cause of fascism
@@Skinnymarks the left has no fascists, they have commies and anarchists, sure some fascist dont publically anounce their ideology because well, it has a bad rep. But by calling the left fascist you play by their book, not any form of authoritarianism is fascism.
@@commenter6973 I'm Italian and no, Giovanni gentile isn't the creator of fascism, in twenty years of fascism in Italy we had the most number of privatization in our history and the right of Proletarian are soppresed in violence. To rise to power, Mussolini allied himself with the capitalist and conservative right and repressed all forms of left and trade unions. However, let's analyze from the social point of view, capitalist society is hierarchical or vertical, there are men who are higher and men who are lower and this also happens with fascism. instead the communism conceived by karl Marx foresees the abolition of hierarchies and therefore promotes a horizontal society. This also happened with Nazism in Germany, and it is not that if you call yourself "national socialism" then you are a "socialist" the facts do not count, it is not that if my name is fish then I am. So the capitalist and fascism are very similar.
Neo-fascists you mean. Because fascists nowadays differ in phylosophy to real fascists before. Real fascists were nothing more than capitalists, supported by big companies
@@socialismodemocracia9366 Hitler and Mussolini weren't capitalists. They're supported by STATE controlled corporations. Capitalism is the free exchange of goods and services, when you restrict exchanges between people thats not capitalist, having a state technically own every business in a country (nazi germany, hitler could seize any property/means of production whenever he wanted and it was legal for him to do so) isn't capitalist. You can argue they're state corporatists, but they're not at all capitalist, i love how commies like you always bring up "lol read a book" yet you call a statist that hates the free market and freedom itself a capitalist. All drugs should be legal to sell, use and own All weapons should be legal to sell, use and own Taxation is theft. These are pure capitalist views on government and it's regulatory actions, the nazis despised these ideas. I'm a pragmatic libertarian minarchist, i support regulation that stifles monopolization and very light environmental regulation, you have the right to consume black tar heroine and to build a stationary cannon on your roof.
HAH the notion that Hitler was a Marxist is laughable. Feel free to actually read one of his speeches or books. His open contempt for all communist ideology and Marx himself is a consistent and significant feature of his rhetoric. Hitler himself said that Marxism is inherently Jewish because Marx was Jewish, and that it was a weak and contemptible ideology designed to ruin a nation's ability to self determine; Even going so far as to say that Communism existed to serve the Jews that (according to him) were trying to take control of the world. He called his ideology National Socialism not because it was based on socialist ideology, but because socialism was very popular in Germany. Multiple parties called themselves some variant of socialism. The first concentration camps were built to detain outspoken socialists and socialist ideology was banned after the Nazi party came to power. I know it's popular to equate Hitler and the Nazis with stuff people don't like, but you can't claim Hitler was even a little bit Marxist without ignoring all of the relevant history, including his own freaking words.
"Selfless people must stop focusing on personal freedoms and be willing to subordinate themselves to the community!" "Okay, but who gets to make decisions for the group?" "Well, it was my idea, so..."
This is a PragerU video. These people don't read or care about truth, learning, facts, etc. This channel's sole function is to run propaganda for oil billionaires.
"Former Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, is quoted as saying, “Fascism should more appropriate be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power. Benito Mussolini
I've seen the quote. I don't know if it's true or not. If it is, then America is fascist, no matter who you vote for, because corporate cronyism and back dealing is at play weather Democrat or Republicans are in. Communism isn't a viable alternative either, because it's simply a massive conglomeration of state, industry, and military. It may be due to Italian language. The term corporate means body (ie corpse,corporeal), to imply many acting under one body, much like how Catholic refers to being one with the body of Christ.
Nathan Sharp: Look at a photo of the House of Representatives, and notice what is mounted on the wall on either side of the Speaker. Fascism has been within the US since Thomas Jefferson and the creation of the political parties. It was Jefferson's party that ushered in the word, Democratic.
Corporatism: "The control of a state or organization by large interest groups." Example: "Fascism was the high point of corporatism." A political party, labor union, or a grouping of the members of the wealthy power elite, such as a "round table group" (NGO), is an interest group. The UN and EU are very good examples of controlled authority, as well as any corporate state/government being controlled by the same groups. This is why FDR stated that he admired Mussolini's fascism. It was FDR who helped create the UN, which originated with the Lend-Lease Plan, before it was revealed to the public and organized as an official world authority. The UN is controlled by corporate interests. You might also find that Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler were controlled by large corporate interests, outside of Russia, Italy, and Germany, and thus, so were their governments instead of the other way around. Marx was also an elitist puppet of the old noble ruling class. The United States Govt. has also been controlled by a group of the wealthy power elite, especially financiers, since its founding. FDR stated that it started under Jackson, but in reality, it started under Washington, Hamilton, and Jefferson with the war debt, Wall Street, and trade with Europe.
Just looking at how badly the US is handling the pandemic tells me that you are not in fact in this together.. It's mostly in the US you see the crazies who claim it's their "right" to not wear masks. When does your right end and another's right begin? Does your right to not wear a face mask supercede anothers right to avoid infection?
RandalfTheBlack I mean, what about covering ur mouth when u sneeze/cough? U don’t see the government requiring that. And just like wearing a mask, it can stop the people around u from getting sick.
I don't understand, when and why has being on the right mean you're automatically a racist? Racism shouldn't be a political ideology because ANYONE can be racist. Also racist countries are usually authoritative and emphasise government and state powers, unlike conservative values.
Well, one isn't necessarily like Donald Trump if one's right wing, but left wing's been defined by social equality and right wing by social hierarchy since the era of the French Revolution when those in the left wing of the National Assembly were in favour of revolution and justice for the people of the third estate while those in the right wing opposed the revolution and wanted to conserve the monarchy. Racism contradicts social equality.
Nationalist Socialists and fascists referred to themselves as left-wing socialists and were both big government gun grabbers. The Nazi's were a merger of two socialist parties, including the economically socialist Political Worker's Circle (PAC), joined at the hip with the european communists. However, the Nazi's formed a coalition government with a right-wing populist party in Germany called the German National People's Party (DNVP), which had more seats than the Nazi's did. So that coalition might've been right-wing populist, but Hitler kept calling his party, "From the camp of bourgeois tradition, it takes national resolve, and from the materialism of the Marxist dogma, living, creative Socialism," anti-liberal, and anti-capitalist.
Yes. And fight against canceling historical figures, tearing down their statues. History, and the people who made history, for good or ill, have a lot to teach us that can inform our future.
I agree, but it also requires understanding how the use of philosophical and political terms and concepts gets muddled over time. If you were to study the origin of liberalism, for example, starting with John Locke, you'd be very confused by its applications in modern American cultural context, where the meaning has become more like an oxymoron. I prefer to resist these ambiguities and refer back to source material and origins, because the changes often have the intent of fooling people, engineering the way they think. Case example: the Swastica existed for thousands of years in the Hindu religion and meant prosperity. Hitler stole it and now when people see it they think of bigotry and destruction. Those who seek power will steal words and symbols to wear like wolves in sheep clothing and trick people into following them. This creates historical ambiguities down the road.
Jos Meid Yes but if I want to know about fascist belief I'd rather look at what Mussolini said, not what Gentile said. I find it interesting, and maybe suspiciously convenient, that they quote Gentile more than Mussolini. There were plenty of different intellectuals that were supported or tolerated by the fascist regime, many of them were at odds with each other (example D'Annunzio and Marinetti) and none of them dictated the philosophy of fascism, Mussolini did (in fact he decided to persecute the Jews even if some Jews were among the founders of the Fascist party). In this case the dishonesty of pragerU is clear
So, you were a moron when you were young, and you remain a moron to this very day? I read Mussolini's 'The Doctrine of Fascism' when I was 16. I read 'Das Kapital' and 'The Communist Manifesto' at the same time. I am STILL to this very day laughing at 'The Communist Manifesto' because I picked it apart with ease at the age of 16.
@@nationalistcanuck7800 what even made you so UNJUSTLY entitled enough to one up some casual dude who just had to express his thoughts and then make a whole pointless speech about what a 4th grader can literally do you stupid moron
The video makes the distinction of fascism too simplistic. For example, Fascism and Anarchism are complete opposites in some respects (Authoritarianism) but they're both considered far left. Fascism took hold in Germany due to the popularity of Nationalism, which is where the parallels to US conservatives come from.
@@CulturalMarxist4985 yes and no. Do I want to syringes everywhere and more people with aids? Not at all. Legalize some drugs but not all of them. I have never really had a big problem with abortion. I think the right over reaches on this topic. I rather see them focus their efforts in teaching youth responsibility so they never have to make the choice in the first place. It's sad but it's not my problem or business. These two issues are nowhere near the same as the left issues with big government.
@@anomalyevolution40 Well, the point is that conservative just means reluctant to accept new ideas. Nothing to do with small government. Left wing's been defined by social equality and right wing by social hierarchy since the era of the French Revolution when those in the left wing of the National Assembly were in favour of revolution and justice for the people of the third estate while those in the right wing opposed the revolution and wanted to conserve the monarchy. Fascism's sort of the benchmark to which social hierarchy and inequality are measured. To claim that it isn't far-right would be blotting out reality.
@@CulturalMarxist4985 i think the connection is that, as you said, cons are reluctant to change, the US is capitalistic, capitalism/free market requires small gov't. Seems to me in the US (as an outsider) the left want gov't intervention economically, but liberation in their personal lives. Then the right want freedom/no involvement from the gov't, except when it comes to freedoms that go against their beliefs. Am I right in thinking the right are more religious?
We need to acknowledge that none of us KNOW history. We know of events, we know of writing that historically famous people have written and published, we know philosophical concepts, but we don't know anything really about times in which no modern person has lived and experienced. For example, if you were to put together all of my writing in comments over the years (what a nightmare that would be), you would think some very strange things about me that likely aren't true. But all of that would be through the lens of someone who has a certain idea of their own about things that happened today. No one can know what my full opinion is on anything because you simply can't know that.
How the hell does nobody know Giovanni Gentile? I live in Italy, and here he's considered one of the most important philosophers of the XX century. He changed the school system into a new fascist one, and we still use it.
Not taught in schools here in the United States. This is the first I’d heard of him, and I am fairly well-educated. It is just as Dinesh says, the Left hides him from the rest of the world.
"For me all these names of Left and Right, of Conservative, Aristocracy and Democracy are so many empty academic terms. They serve occasionally to distinguish, but more often to confuse." - Benito Mussolini, 27 November 1922
"Well I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There's only an up or down: [up] man's old -- old-aged dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. " - Ronald Reagan Fascism, Nazism, Communism, Socialism - It's all the same to me. Just more tyranny.
I agree with Brian nothing is right or wrong good or bad just everything you believe is good or bad or right or wrong it's just words to make people hate or like something to keep people safe(like laws) and it's all about what you believe
Norse Titan it's not censored at all......... Like people know about. Gentile, it's just your uneducated ass listening to conspiracy theories to lower the general left side to create an "us against them" mentality
Egil heistad just that I brought up that it is repressed information doesn't mean that I am A) uneducated, and B) that it is not censored. It can still be censored, just that the information is available, doesn't mean it isn't censored. People can post videos or articles that can be taken down for having this information, and we wouldn't know about it, which is sort of the point of censorship.
Norse Titan But if your taught it in school it pretty much means it's not censored doesn't it? And no you're probably well educated, that's why you think that there's a government conspiracy censoring and hiding information from the public to make the right seen facist even though they know themselves that THEY'RE THE FACIST... Sure....
I was never taught this information in school, and I didn't necessarily say that it's a government conspiracy, but more of individuals on the left as well as leftist media
Blood and soil We exist as the lifeblood of the state Strong adherence to military Hyper masculinity and strict gender roles Clinging to a nostalgia of a mythical past when the state was strong All citizens serve the state (collectivism) The state and the individual are one The narrator here is wrong that fascism isn’t a right wing ideology. It may incorporate some ideas of leftism like collectivism, but the rest is straight up conservative
Nearly every definition you used is a form of collectivist thinking. Conservatives believe the rights of the individual trumps the state's "right" to dictate policy. The political Left believes the opposite. It is by default totalitarian.
No you re tar d. It is left wing. He even named all of the Fascist’s political leanings and they were ALL left wing... Unless you debunk that or show an example of someone who’s right wing and a fascist (sorry to tell you but Hitler was left also... he got along with the Soviets in the beginning for a reason)
As Gandhi said..... "Mussolini's care of the poor, his opposition to super-urbanization, his efforts to bring about coordination between capital and labor, seem to me to demand special attention ... My own fundamental objection is that these reforms are compulsory. But it is the same in all democratic institutions. What strikes me is that behind Mussolini's implacability is a desire to serve his people. Even behind his emphatic speeches there is a nucleus of sincerity and of passionate love for his people. It seems to me that the majority of the Italian people love the iron government of Mussolini." "He is the great statesmen of our time.”
Lmao you fell for that Crowder video? That was staged (or wikipedia was edited), they most likely used the Simon Says feature on Alexa. If you know anything about tech you'd know it's impossible for Amazon to program individual answers into Alexa (other than the hi hello stuff) because of lack of physical memory.
I feel like maybe we should start making more good idea vs. bad idea arguments and stop making so many left vs. right arguments. The good idea vs. bad idea ones seem to be much more useful in the scheme of things, especially when the solution to a problem is somewhere between left and right.
The only problem with good idea vs bad idea when it comes to dealing with the left is they think emotionalism vs good idea wins. It's hard to beat them with brains when they think with their emotions.
Onehappydawg Yeah, that's a legitimate problem. But somebody who does think logically can recognize good ideas most of the time. Just yelling at the idiots "I'm not a fascist, you're a fascist!" isn't going to accomplish much in the way of attracting those logical people, it will probably just drive them away and disenfranchise them. Stooping to your opponent's level isn't often a good idea as far as political discourse goes.
I don't see many stooping to their level. On the right I see most trying to use logic and common sense it is the progressive left that shouts at everyone they disagree with. In a group the progressive left is impossible to reason with, but when singled out and reasoned with one on one sometimes there can be a break though of the brainwashing they have had.
Onehappydawg Keyword "most", but MOSTLY fair enough. We can't always reason with the loud extremes of the political spectrum, so the most we can do is drown them out with reason until they can't be heard above the deafening sound of common sense.
An early supporter of the Fascist movement, he has been called the philosopher of Fascism. Gentile cooperated with the fascist government and became an apologist of the totalitarian state, which he viewed as the embodiment of the moral spirit. He called for the total submission of the personality to the state and for the dissolution of individuals in political history. From The Free dictionary
*_Farthest Left_* 100% government; 0% individual liberty and responsibility; Collectivism. *_Farthest Right_* 0% government; 100% individual liberty and responsibility; Individualism. *_Americanism_* 5-10% government; 90-95% individual liberty and responsibility. Derived from Thomas Sowell (Intellectuals and Society, ch.6), and John Birch Society video, "Overview of America." 😎♥✝🇺🇸💯
i recommend you read Gentile's Doctrine of Fascism. it explains fascism is "tending to the right" because individualism is leftist. it's actually pretty interesting how well the views he presents map onto modern conservatives. i mean he actually warns leftism leads to atheism at the end
@@RodMartinJr do they say fascism is right wing or left wing? for example, do they note Mussolini says: "Now is the time for Italy to move towards the right. Now is the time to eliminate the political left."?
@@regisglass4564 I base my definitions on the work of Thomas Sowell and the John Birch Society, plus the fact that Italian Fascism was a form of Socialism praised by American Progressives. 😎♥✝🇺🇸💯
@@maverickcoyote3526 yes their first target for assassination were socialist, social democrats, communists. on the other hand the big capitalists of the industry were friends with hitler, the best proof are working camps for industry owning a name of capitalist owners.
Extreme left, radical left, left wing, left leaning - Right leaning, Right Wing, Radical right, Extreme right. Honestly though, Those on the right don't exactly have a whole lot of extremists, and the difference between the right and the left is that the left puts for their extremists as these "war heroes" sent out to "FREE US ALL!" Where as conservatives HATE their extremists, because those individuals make us look like fools.
Anyone who thinks that they know what is best for everyone using a single principle is arrogant. If we let them roam around spreading their arrogant ideology, they will cause chaos, because everyone's definition of happiness is unique, there is no single method to address them all. My happiness, your happiness and the happiness is not necessarily the same. So we must listen to one another and be considerate.
"If I, as a flawed and imperfect individual, cannot be trusted to mind my own affairs, I certainly have no justification in trusting a government composed of similarly flawed and imperfect individuals to mind them for me." -- Me (channeling Thomas Jefferson's "angels" remark from his inaugural address.)
Fascism is more of category, Hitler, Mosley, and Mussolini all had different ideas, mainly revolving around war, economics, and race. Also, Fascism isn’t always Socialist. National Socialism isn’t Marxist Socialist, they just referred to Socialism as meaning helping the people, and “were going to take the word socialism back from the left”.
I am an Atheist .....I disagreed with D'Souza when he was debating the late Hitchens but as for politics its a no brained ....Everyone ho has the slightest rational should be a Republican.
"republican" doesn't mean "believer in God". No one cares if you are an atheist. If the fascists want you to believe in god, you'd either believe, or be killed for not believing. Guess who the fascist god is? it's the state, obey the state of die.
+Kreacher's Oddysey How on earth can you not see how silly that statement is? PragerU HATES Fascism and thus will slander it in any way they can. They also officially oppose "leftism" so they will call it left wing because they are biased against it. Why not ask a leftist what fascism is? Oh yeah right, because the leftist is biased against fascism too and they will tell you it's right wing because they are biased against fascism and right wing-ism. Think. Use your brain. PragerU is a biased source. Sheesh.
We don't belong to the government. It belongs to us. We participate in it, and are affected by its function (or lack thereof), but we don't belong to it. That mentality belongs to serfdom, not liberty.
@Orn Gorn Why would anyone vote for a party that put millions of innocent people in internment camps, steal money from hardworking people to give to lazy people, support gun confiscations, support restricting free speech.
Mao Zedong no, you see, all socialism really is is big government. Socialism is where the government does stuff and the more stuff it does the socialistier it is and if it does a whole lot of stuff then it’s communism.
Edward Backman and you are wrong as socialism is an economic model which some ideologies follow hence names like "democratic socialists", "populist socialists" and the like. Workers owning the means of production is usually something communists would have and fascism is neither left nor right nor centrist but rather and alternative ideal
It was a joke, Edward Backman was talking shit on Cenk Uygur but no you are wrong workers ownership of the means of production is socialism. Communism is stateless and also the goal of most socialists. Idiots like Bernie calling themselfes "democratic socialist" are not socialist but social democrates. Fascism is far right, it is a ultra conservative ,reactionary and have private property.
Edward Backman communism is an ideology that supports socialism, socialism is an economic model which allows the workers to "gain" what they have earned from labour by giving their earnings to the government to distribute them, and that can lead to some problems but yeah.
Drake democratic socialism is a term that got misused a lot by bernie sanders. Theres a big difference between democratic socialism and social democracy. Social democracy is what bernie campaigns for nd what exists in scandinavia (free college, healthcare, progressive taxing etc.) But it is still firmly a capitalist ideology. Democratic socialism on the other hand is a socialist ideaology where the workers do own the means of production and private property is abolished, but there is still a democratically elected government. Facism is to the left of the US and most capitalist countries including scandinavian ones, but it still remains on the right overall since the workers do not own the means of production, distribution and exchange and private property still exists.
See, this is why we use the political compass. It's idiotic to say that these sorts of things are black and white. There are plenty of leftists who champion social freedom AND big goverment. There are plenty of right-wingers who champion social control AND small goverment, and vice-versa.
The difference between right and left is really that the right believes social inequality is either unavoidable or for the best, while the left believes social inequality should be fought against. That's why fascism is right, because it is built on the principle that some people are, and should be, superior to others or inferior to others based on their race/nationality.
That's a lot of made up BS. Remember we are discussing policies, Fascism is neither left or right, same as a dictatorship is neither. That said right is a far more forgiving ideology than left is for it literally stands for equal opportunity through individual actions while left forces equal opportunity through goverment actions. The goverment decides your future in the left Doesn't that sound similar to, I dont know... Facism? This is from someone that lives in a racist, communist country. Venezuela. Left is cancer
Fascism is a dictatorial form of political ideology. Socialism, on the other hand, is an ideology where individuals of a society own the means of production. A fascist ruler wields supreme power and authority over a country. In contrast, rulers of socialist nations distribute power and authority among the states. A dictator does not tolerate any criticism, opposition, or rebellion; freedom of speech takes a back seat. Compared to fascist regimes, socialist states allow more freedom of speech. Dictators control industries; but in socialist states, the ownership of the means of production lies with the public sector.
@@jorgei57 Wow, you are claiming I'm the one that is indoctrinated? Clearly you are the one that has been indoctrinated by right wing propaganda and have no clue what Socialism even is. You seem to be indicating that the "historical results of socialism", probably referring to countries like the Soviet Union, North Korea, Cuba and China, which are all well known communist nations that became Totalitarian (not socialist countries, even though Communism is an extreme form of Socialism, it is NOT the only form of Socialism). The world is not strictly Black and White. Most Ideologies, including Socialism and Capitalism, are not defined by the extreme ends. Socialism has a lot of forms that are NOT Communism, such as what is found in Norway and the other Nordic countries. Claiming that ALL Socialist nations, and Socialism itself, are Communist is like saying that all forms of Capitalism are Fascist (Which, yes, Fascism is indeed a right-wing ideology that incorporates Capitalism).
@@jorgei57 Also, the point of my post was to show that Fascism is NOTHING LIKE Socialism. Fascism is DEFINATELY NOT a form of Socialism as the video claims. Words mean things and facts (reality) matters -- you can't ignore them just because you have been indoctrinated by right wing propaganda, which this video is.
@@_Historia.Magistra.Vitae. Hate to burst your bubble, but fasc is m was never a form of (state) soc ial ism! You are showing your cluelessness by denying reality and parroting right-wing propaganda.
When looking at history, a common belief of fascism is denouncing socialism and holding up capitalism. While Hitler's political party was named the "National Socialist German Workers' Party," it was not socialist, nor a workers' party. The only thing that relates fascism and socialism is that fascists despise socialists.
Yeah, this channel's basically the Fox News of TH-cam. Even if it weren't a propaganda channel, it doesn't even manage to sound convincing or relatable. I mean, its narrators always tend to speak in robotic, emotionless voices and there's no background music How there are folks who bother to watch the entire videos, let alone fall for them is beyond me.
Did you differ specifically with anything he said, or did you just not like the way he presented it? You compared the channel to Fox News, said it was propaganda, unconvincing, unrelatable, robotic, and you wanted some accompanying music. But what did he say that you disagreed with?
@@number4cat1 Well, fascism obviously doesn't aim for an egalitarian society, so you can't very well call it left wing. It puts significant emphasis on nationalism to the point that the people of the nation are seen as superior to others. From this extreme nationalism came the concept of racial purity in Nazi Germany. Fascist regimes shared the same extreme nationalist ideas, xenophobia and disdain for feminists, communists and other preachers of social equality. The Doctrine of Fascism even describes it as right wing: 'Granted that the nineteenth century was the century of socialism, liberalism, democracy, this does not mean that the twentieth century must also be the century of socialism, liberalism, democracy. We are free to believe that this is the century of authority, a century tending to the right, a fascist century.'
@@CulturalMarxist4985it does aim for an egalitarian society. It’s a populist state for the Italian nationals. Hitlers racial socialism was for the German RACE. That’s the egalitarian aspect. The facist third way believed it could overcome class struggle by making a strong national identity. These movements were reactions to international Marxism and were created by a bunch of socialists.
@@mrsentencename7334 Hitler didn't abolish capitalism at all though. Neither did Mussolini. That's why they got so much support from capitalists, who were scared shitless of a proletarian revolution after what happened in Russia in 1917.
“No individuals or groups, political parties, associations, labor unions outside the state. For this reason, fascism is opposed to socialism, which clings ritually to class war, and ignores the unity of the state, which moles the classes into a single, moral, and economic reality.” Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile, The Doctrine of Fascism, 1932. Your quote was from 1914 when Mussolini was still a member of the Socialist Party
@@soraparent1256 they don't read history Mussolini was hard core left wing socialist Until he left that party to Create his fascist brown shirt Main Reason why Fascism is Considered right wing they were Die hard Anticommunist and Anti Leftist
AJKeio liberal democracy (what Dinesh calls "conservatism" also has its roots in radical leftism-- the enlightenment itself was far left in the era in which it was born.
Shhh, he doesn't really want you to point out errors otherwise he would have read other comments that have pointed out similar things. He simply wants his world view to be reaffirmed by an echo chamber.
I am honestly curious. I just find it hard to believe that big government in which the state is in control of everything most everything could possibly be right wing. Today's left looks more and more like the then Nazi party who's goal was big government and silencing the opinions of free people.
"... big government and silencing the opinions of free people..." sounds like the entire Trump agenda, to be honest. He's put into action more executive orders than any other President in the last 50 odd years, meaning he's on pace to sign the most of all time, he tries to use the office of the Presidency to dictate the hiring and firing within independent businesses, he wants to wrest control from both the judicial and legislative branches of government to the executive branch (a trend started by the last republican president), he urges the justice department to investigate independent media and reduce the efficacy of the first amendment, he utilizes Orwellian tactics with weirdly positive results- anything he doesn't agree with simply isn't real, he openly contradicts himself from one week to another (in a sort of bizarrely infantile version of double think)-also he has an incredibly punchable face. That last one isn't relevant, but true nonetheless.
Well Karl Marx did make communism alot more popular but communism actually existed before capitallism in collectivised societies called communes there are even alot around today and they are the closest we have to anarchism as a political system that exists.
@@monroecorp9680 There's nothing to simplify man. A political compass is a political compass. Keep dreaming, or wake up. You'll take the red pill one day I bet. And you'll be happy you did.
@@monroecorp9680 I can infer that you're a weak philosopher if nothing else, so try again. And yes, you come off as just another leftist with such philosophy tat loves to complicate things that don't need complication.
if the nazis were socialists than why did corporations like topf and sons (töpf & söhne) and volkswagen play such an important role in germanys economy and war effort? Those privately owned companies would not have existed under socialism
The Nazi's had a socialist name. They where socialists.(before the change) But the party transformed into extreme right wing fascism. But they kept the name...
@@HermanWillems totally agree they were socialist in the beginning to win support from all the population and it worked, then they transformed into totalitarianism and far right wing ideology.
@Cloud William 25/5000 Nazis were racists. right wing Nazis were Christians right wing Nazis were anti unions right wing Nazis were anti feminists right wing Nazis were capitalists Nazis were anti communists right wing the Nazis were authoritarian.who says that left-wing fascism is either totally stupid or lying
I'm a bit lost. Why are we equating fascism with the left when the idea originates from a socialist, but denies the logic behind its function? I mean sure, you can have left wing fascists & right wing fascists, but all fascists are totalitarian. Totalitarianism is definitely not left wing. Sure, we could say communism is totalitarian & there is a period described by Marx as the dictatorship of the proletariat (probably his greatest failure in logic), but it wasn't the end objective. Equating socialised state management & top down dictat is misleading to the point of being a falsehood, as socialist management is defined by group ownership & an equity of involvement. The root of an idea & it's reality are not one & the same
@lau coloma: _"as so cial ist management is defined by group ownership & an equity of involvement. "_ Incorrect. So ciali sm is nothing more than a basic economic system which advocates for collective ownership/control of the means of production, distribution and exchange. You cannot have a soc ial ist economy without total itari anism since such as system is based on involunta rism and a tot al cent ralization of pow er and eco nomy.
@lau coloma: _"Tot alitar ianism is definitely not l eft w ing. "_ Incorrect. The fundamental differen ces between l eft-w ing and rig ht-win g ideo logies center around the the rights of indivi duals vs. the pow er of the go vern ment. L eft-w ing beliefs are liberal in that they belie ve so ciety is best ser ved with an expan ded role for the gove rnment. Peo ple on the right believe that the best outc ome for society is achie ved when individual rights and civil liber ties are paramo unt and the role - and espe cially the po wer - of the gove rnment is min imized.
@@Historia.Magistra.Vitae. I don't know what group ownership & equity of involvement means to you, but as an economic system that would be... exactly what you said? Sounds to me as if you have read without understanding
Neither the American Right or Left are fascists in any sense. Fascism is neither left or right, but rather radical center as it takes from both sides of the equation to create a different perspective.
Ufphen, wrong. Ultranationalism is not a left/right issue. You can be a hard core communist state and be ultrnationalist. Examples? East Germany, hard core communist and built a wall not to keep out people but to keep the State/Nation's slaves in. North Korea, hard core commie and if you defect they will kill your entire family because you betrayed the state/nation. USSR, the hallmark of Communism and incredibly nationalistic. NAZI Germany, hard cor Socialist while being hard core Nationalist. I could go on for many, many more but you get the idea. Finally extreme right wing is no government at all (normally called Anarchy) where there are no nations. Just shy of that mark is limited power Republics like America started out as (not the Crony Capitalist with socialist tendencies Republic we have now)
wrong Nationalism is right wing since nationalism is about the nation, while left wing would be is about the classless poplutation. North Korea is not communist in fact it was trying to enact a Korean policy of Juche which is a independence from higher powers, aka the communist states, it is more run like a dictatorship than a communist state more in the eyes of a monarchy since the state doesn't care about their people only head of state. You can debate whether these states were communistic since these states cared more about the state than the people which is the opposite of communism. NAZI Germany was not very socialist since most of the power was held with manufacturers and the party, a pretty capitalistic state that was racially and anti-semitically focused will goals of domination which is very right wing. Extreme right can and cannot have a government since it can be libertarian or authoritarian. You have just described a libertarian outcome that isn't right or left wing as libertarianism in the end would have no government but that isn't a right or left issue. Right wing has nothing to do with less government that is a libertarian issue, right wing itself cares about tradition. Leftwing libertarians are anarcho-communist and right wing are anarchist.
simple chart < LEFT-Fascist-Socialist-Strongman Dictatorships-Monarchy---------------------------------------------Limited Government Republics-No Government Anarchy-RIGHT> It's the level of intrusiveness and willingness/ability to use force against the citizen that defines LEFT (Absolute Government Control/No Individual Freedoms) from the RIGHT (Bare minimum Government to produce a stable society and MAXIMUM individual freedoms) Can you name one, just one, communist country that is not also a nationalist country?
There are 14 Characteristics of Fascism. 1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays. 2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of “need.” The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, and long incarcerations of prisoners. 3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists… 5. Supremacy of the Military Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized. 5. Rampant Sexism The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and anti-gay legislation. 6. Controlled Mass Media Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation or by sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Government censorship and secrecy, especially in war time, are very common. 7. Obsession with National Security Fear of hostile foreign powers is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses. 8. Religion and Government are Intertwined Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government’s policies or actions. 9. Protection of Corporate Power The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite. 10. Suppression of Labor Power Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed . 11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts. 12, Obsession with Crime and Punishment Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations. 13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders. 14. Fraudulent Elections Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.
@Murray Wilson : These have very little to do with fa scis m, and very much to do with every dic tat ori al country in existence. These "characteristics" are the zod iac signs of poli tics.
@@_Historia.Magistra.Vitae. Again you show your idiocy. Yes, these very much are characteristics of Fascism. They are NOT "the zod iac signs of poli tics"! While many of these points are indeed aligned with dictators, one of the defining characteristics of Fascism is that they are headed by an all powerful dictator, therefore many of the characteristics of fascism are also characteristics of dictators. However, not all dictators are Fascists, some are Monarchs or fall elsewhere politically.
@@Naris48 : Again, they have very little to do with fascism. If you want to know about the characteristics of fascism instead of generic characteristics of dictatorship, I highly suggest you go and read some proper history, starting from "the doctrine of fascism" by Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile. Fascism didn't even have a dictator. Mussolini was a Prime Minister, subservient to the King of Italy.
@@_Historia.Magistra.Vitae. Yes, they have EVERYTHIGN to do with Fascism! Why do you insist on denying reality? Mussolini was indeed a dictator, he claimed as much in 1925 when he seized power. Adolf Hitler was another Fascist dictator. The King of Italy became a figurehead after Mussolini's seized power, although the King was effectively reinstated when Mussolini was ousted in 1943 since the war was going very badly for Italy. I suggest you read Umberto Eco and Lawrence Britt so you can get a clue.
@@Naris48 : Again, the reality is that those "characteristics" are describing generic dictatorship and could be applied to countries such as Venezuela, Cuba, China, North Korea, USSR and many others which have nothing to do with fas cis m whatsoever. By the definition of the word, Mussolini was not a proper dictator since he did not have all the power in Italy, unlike Hit ler had in Germany. Also Hit ler was not a fa sci st, he was a nati onal soc iali st. When it comes to Umberto Eco, he is as useless as your posted vague characteristics list.
Fascism in the USA and the UK has its roots in The Fabian Society. The Fascists were Keynesian Socialists. That includes Hitler, Mussolini, Mosely and FDR.
Wheelspin Productions Nationalism. Militarism. Privatization of state industries. *Literally called a right wing ideology in the DOF.* “Fascism is therefore opposed to socialism” (shortened the quote, but the point remains the same in the DOF.) Night of the Long Knives Ideology was supported by the rich, who also benefited under fascism. If you search up any info about Nazi economics, you will find a lot of mentions of privatization.
1:46 Notice how Gentile says "willingly subordinate themselves to the state." Of course what if your unwilling? Oh trust me your going to be "willing."
Yes Propaganda works - We all support Capitalist State Control in the USA today ! Greedy Corporate funded & regulated Media & Corporate Surveillance ! & we think it`s Freedom ! LOL : )
@@DANCEGARAGEPUNK Right so 100 million dead bodies, directly caused by Socialism, is "Capitalist propaganda" ? Well I suppose it is, if you're a Socialist pychoapth.
Gabriell D'Annunzio was the founder of the ideology though... Also, I'd love a citation for Marx being a philosophical mentor to the creator, since Facism was supposed to eliminated the problems of Capitalist and Marxist systems, both equally critically.
This video is appallingly misleading. It doesn't matter if you consider yourself leftist or a right winged, don't get your information/education from here and by here I mean PragerU.
@@tevzcrnic4456 yeah...it's colorful videos filled with appealing conservative talking points without evidence that attract a new, younger generation of conservatives who get indoctrinated with this awful dogma of "the left is always bad and they're feminazis all of them don't listen to them own with facts and logic" so anything we say goes in one ear and out the other.
I admit that it is propaganda, however, in no case do I think it is misleading because they are precise in defining that fascism is a model of government to which the people subordinate themselves to serve the interest of a few who rules giving up individual interests and liberties for the good of such nation
The misunderstanding here is oversimplification of the left-right dichotomy. In truth, fascism is economically neutral- left leaning. It is true that Germany’s economy was controlled by the government to a fairly profound extent, but this was more about Hitler’s specific implementation. In truth Fascism doesn’t describe the economic axis. Instead it is highly authoritarian and VERY culturally right. Right-wingers see fascism as left bc they purely focus on economics. Left-wingers see fascism is right because the primary ideological backing of fascism is hyper nationalism and extreme cultural regression. Both the nazis and the Italian fascist sought a return to their great empires (the German Empire and Rome). Obviously the left favors change and the cultural dimension whereas the right favors tradition. This is why fascism is primarily right wing. Leftist (often in exaggeration) call the right fascist because the right seeks cultural regression. In America this manifests as policy against immigration, anti-lgbtq, and more emphasis on religion and family units.
Last I checked, murdering people (countrymen as well) because they aren't "profitable" isn't exactly "economically neutral-left leaning". In fascism, it's considered "social" to jump off a bridge if you can't contribute to the nation. What? You don't want to jump? Well, then they'll push you, because that's what anti-social parasites deserve!
@@Bender-B-Rodriguez You obviously have never heard of the french anarchist syndicates movements if you think “left = government interference”. And the literal term “left” comes from the side of the room people sat on in France when supporting or opposing having a monarchy. And the left were the side of abolishing it. Unsure how that translates to “more government interference”, but sure. Which is why the left-right divide is less about government interference, and more about hierarchy. If you want to be reductive in the divide, the following better expains it. The left believes that almost all forms of hierarchy are unjust and therefore are to be abolished. We try to spread as much power across as many people as possible, trying to flatten the hierarchy pyramid as flat as possible. The right believes that hierarchy is normal and just the right people need to be on top. It's about getting the power to the right people, either through birthright, hard work or genetic talent. That's being extremely reductive, but way more accurate than your take.
As a Fascist, I'd say we are neither right nor left, but instead take the best from both sides of the spectrum to totally reinvent society. We see it as a third option to the classical struggle of Capitalism vs. Marxism, both of which we detest. If anything, its a centrist position, a radical centrist position.
Yep, third position. Fascism didn't cease to exist in 1945. Nasser in Egypt was in a fascist party, had a 'green shirts' movement based on the German brown shirts and had multiple SS officers as advisors. Then there's the Justicialism of Juan Perón who explicitly based Argentina on Italian fascism. Ba'athism in Iraq & Syria were heavily influenced by both Italian fascism and German national socialism, and even today the S.S.N.P in Syria and Lebanon have 120,000 active members. In the US, Huey Long is probably the closest thing
Read Mein Kampf, Adolf's autobiography for yourself and discover how far to the left Hitler was on his political ideologies. In multiple chapters, Hitler writes about his hatred and loathing of capitalism, private property and "profiteering". One of Hitler's goals was to universally outlaw private property. He exalts the state over the individual and believes all financial activities of corporations should be regulated and controlled by the state --- a goal which he achieved during his tenure as "Der Furhrer", NAZI leader of Germany. NOT very "rightwing" or conservative, I would say. In fact, the modern American Democratic Party and its persistent desire to control and regulate business and industry appears to be just as fascistic and totalitarian as some of the infamous extremist European political regimes of the not so distant past.
@Fascism Is Honest Socialism fascism doesn’t incorporate economic leftism. In fascist Italy, profit shares for industrialists and land owners massively increased, and the fascists were backed by capitalists like the perrone brothers.
@Fascism Is Honest Socialism The Fascist Manifesto was rejected by Mussolini and Gentile, and the guy who wrote it was opposed to Mussolini and Gentile. The Doctrine of Fascism, on the other hand, shows the anti-socialist, anti-syndicalist, and anti-marxist nature of fascism.
@Fascism Is Honest Socialism the fascist manifesto was written by Filippo Marinetti who was a philosopher of futurism and deemed Mussolini and Gentiles’ fascism “reactionary” (which it was) and left the fascist party Congress in 1920. And for doctrine of fascism quotes: “No individuals or groups (political parties, cultural associations, economic unions, social classes) outside the State. Fascism is therefore opposed to Socialism to which unity within the State (which amalgamates classes into a single economic and ethical reality) is unknown, and which sees in history nothing but the class struggle. Fascism is likewise opposed to trade unionism as a class weapon.” “Such a conception of life makes Fascism the resolute negation of the doctrine underlying so-called scientific and Marxian socialism, the doctrine of historic materialism which would explain the history of mankind in terms of the class struggle and by changes in the processes and instruments of production, to the exclusion of all else.” And fascism in Italy was backed by capitalists like the perrone brothers and the fascist policies were capitalist in nature. They privatized railways, ended state monopolies, privatized state telephones, privatized insurance companies, and the profit shares for industrialists massively increased
@Fascism Is Honest Socialism and the link for the privatization of major industries in fascist Italy can’t be typed in a comment section but it’s called “THE FIRST PRIVATIZATION: SELLING SOEs AND PRIVATIZING PUBLIC MONOPOLIES IN FASCIST ITALY (1922-1925)”
@Fascism Is Honest Socialism nationalist socialism is opposed to Marxist globalist socialism, but fascism isn’t nationalist socialism, Gentile and Mussolini specifically said “fascism is opposed to socialism” and capitalism isn’t fascism but fascist economics have historically been capitalist. Laissez-Faire Capitalism isn’t all capitalism, it’s just one form of capitalism that the fascists rejected. Fascist economics combined Keynesianism-capitalism and corporatism-capitalism
Oh my god did nobody research this Just because you're authoritarian doesn't mean you're fascist Fascism is culturally right as opposed to communism which is culturally left But they are both authoritarian and statist Socialism is on the economic side. Fascism can be both economically left aka socialist or economically right aka capitalist. Either way that doesn't change that facism is a far right ideology If you don't believe me, check Wikipedia
@Ludovico CRM114 check the sources Wikipedia cites Wikipedia isn't my source. I'm pointing to it as an example if you don't want to listen to me. The fact that political ideologies are a little more complicated than just left or right should make sense. Just look at the Australian liberals. They are what you would think as right leaning. Or the Canadian nationalists who are very left leaning Political ideologies are complicated and have different policies Just because one is economically left doesn't mean they are culturally left too No this isn't some leftist propoganda shit I personally dislike liberals This is pretty common sense Imagine an authoritarian regime that is socialist in that it provides healthcare and the such but is culturally alt right, believing in the "pure" race and thus only gives benefits to them whilst killing other groups. Or imagine a regime where the government interferes as less as possible and is as small as possible and is therefore anarchistic but the regime also restricts abortion and gay rights and is therefore culturally right but the regime also gives healthcare to its people and is thus economically left
@@1estel1ch.42 Honestly I would take both with a grain of salt and do my own research. The good professor does bring up valid points that can put to the test. I would imagine that the same could be true for the wiki in this case.
No fascists are not capitalists nor socialists They are corporatist which are third position Mussolini said “Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power”
@@abeIincoIn It's not wrong, but I still hate it when people use that "quote". Anyone using it should also clarify that a corporation under Corporatism is a guild-like entity and not a private company
Wikipedia has a 3000 word article on Giovanni Gentile. Not once was the word "socialist" or "socialism" or "Marxism" mentioned in that article. Yeah... he was swept under the carpet.
@Albert Rodríguez Reading books is good. Done that. I also have 20 years experience in living in a socialist country. I've learned that all forms of socialism (including Gentiles' ideology) together with Islam belong to a so called supremacist religious and quasi religious (dogma based) belief systems. They all posit that the practitioner of these systems are (1) higher value human beings than those who are different (2) extermination of those who are different is a duty of practitioners (3) collateral killing of innocent people is acceptable even if they are fellow practitioners (4) complete absolution will be give to practitioners for any and all acts (no matter how vile they may be) in order to achieve victory for his ideology. Yeah.. filth comes in many forms and in different wrappings, but they all stink.
Look Fascism is not far-left. A common misconception about conservatives is that they stand for small-government. When it actually is the libertarians that prefer small government, and libertarians can be left-leaning or right-leaning. Conservative values are more about tradition, organization, and property rights. This is why we tend to see far-right parties have strong religious values and a strong sense of nationalism. The small government argument is not accurate on this scale.
@@timron9521 Supremacy is a far-left characteristic. Today's Iran, China, North-Korea, Cuba are examples of this. Supremacy makes any and all ideology automatically inhuman and a danger to humanity. Fascism came out of the same intellectual cradle, where socialism came from and it shares the single most important characteristic with it "Supremacism". Yes, Fascism is far-left.
Bingbangboom supremacy is not a left-wing characteristic. As I have stated before nationalism is a right-wing value. Nationalism is fine until it gets too extreme, where it tends to move into beliefs of supremacy. The nations you listed are mainly authoritarian. Authoritarianism is not defined to any political side as it can be shown on both. Think of it more as a vertical scale: authoritarian on top and libertarian on the bottom. Both sides can lean left or right. Fascism was created as a movement against socialism, which was failing economically for Europe at the time. Nazis were known for killing socialists/marxists in their camps. Religion can also be another perspective: Hitler (Catholic) was building more of a religious state as he killed Jewish people, while Stalin developed a much more secular state. Besides right-wing and left-wing are total failures and we should never get close to them again.
Here's the right answer. Both the right and left could be fascist. Fascism is a third party there has been Fascism on both the right and left in history before. Of course Mussolini was a Fascist and yes he was right wing. But at the same time Hitler was also a Fascist and he was left wing. To call the right or left Fascist is just incorrect and lazy.
Hilter was a socialist that supported socialized medicine and single payer heath care. Sure he had some views on the right but he has quite a few that are also on the left
Communism, socialism, Marxism, anarchism, are all domain of the left, which is vehemently anti-capitalist. Centralism includes everything from social democracy to classical liberalism, and the right includes everything from neoliberalism to fascism and nazism (which is the teutonic twin of far-right fascism).
Nuclear Armament Are you going to be one of those guys who just posts the exact same message on every single comment that has more than one reply? At least make an _attempt_ at tailoring the comment to the conversation you lazy dweeb.
Fascism CAN’T be right, since the most fundamental aspect of right wing politics is small government. If you’re a fascist, you place the state above the individual, and you are therefore not on the right.
Its right wing. Just asking this stupid question is a form of fascist proganda meant to confuse people who don't know better. Stalin and Mao may have been authoritarian, but they were not fascist.
@I.E Klewos no it's not. Its right wing opinion because it's trying to muddy the definition of fascism, which is a conservative, pro capitalist, movement. It is not left wing and it is not socialist, no matter how many times you yell national socialist. Hitler had all the a actual socialist nazis killed on the night of long knives, then out lawed trade unions, and arrested members of the actual socialist party. It's why Henry Ford and other rich Americans supported Hitler.
@I.E Klewos so none of that is socialism. That's just capitalism with a smiley face. Also >The breaking up of unions and arresting their leaders >Giving out government contracts to private companies to build and run the concentration camps as for profit ventures, which included slave labor. >Arresting and murdering actual socialists and communists >Privitizing huge chunks of the German government, infact privatization was first used to describe Hitler's economic policy >Claming socialism to be a Jewish plot to destroy Germany >And finally invading the soviet union because again Hitler thought it was a Jewish plot to destroy Germany Fascism is right wing, get over it.
Quotes by Mussolini, many after he became a Fascist................. "Marx was the greatest of all theorists of socialism." "Socialism has to remain a terrifying and a majestic thing. If we follow this line, we shall be able to face our enemies." "The law of socialism is that of the desert: a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye. Socialism is a rude and bitter truth, which was born in the conflict of opposing forces and in violence. Socialism is war, and woe to those who are cowardly in war. They will be defeated." "The root of our psychological weakness was this: We socialists have never examined the problems of nations. The International was never concerned with it. The International is dead, paralyzed by events. Ten million proletarians are today on the battlefield." "You cannot get rid of me because I am and always will be a socialist. You hate me because you still love me." "Do not believe, even for a moment, that by stripping me of my membership card you do the same to my Socialist beliefs, nor that you would restrain me of continuing to work in favor of Socialism and of the Revolution" "Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron. There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities." "I know the Communists. I know them because some of them are my children" "I shall defend this pact with all my strength, and if Fascism does not follow me in collaboration with the Socialists, at least no one can force me to follow Fascism." "Standing by me and helping my work as newspaper man were the Fascisti. They were composed of revolutionary spirits who believed in intervention. They were youths-the students of the universities, the socialist syndicalists-destroying faith in Karl Marx by their ideals." "It was inevitable that I should become a Socialist ultra, a Blanquist, indeed a communist. I carried about a medallion with Marx’s head on it in my pocket. I think I regarded it as a sort of talisman. Marx had a profound critical intelligence and was in some sense even a prophet." "I never felt that there was any conflict between my military duties and my Socialism. Why should not a good soldier be also a fighter in the class war?" "Italy is not a capitalist country according to the meaning now conventionally assigned to that term." "Three-fourths of the Italian economy, industrial and agricultural, is in the hands of the state. And if I dare to introduce to Italy state capitalism or state socialism, which is the reverse side of the medal, I will have the necessary subjective and objective conditions to do it." "It is no longer an economy aiming at individual profit, but economy concerned with collective interest." "When the war is over, in the world's social revolution that will be followed by a more equitable distribution of the earth's riches, due account must be kept of the sacrifices and of the discipline maintained by the Italian workers. The Fascist revolution will make another decisive step to shorten social distances." "Some still ask of us: what do you want? We answer with three words that summon up our entire program. Here they are…Italy, Republic, Socialization. . .Socialization is no other than the implantation of Italian Socialism" "For this I have been and am a socialist. The accusation of inconsistency has no foundation. My conduct has always been straight in the sense of looking at the substance of things and not to the form. I adapted socialisticamente to reality. As the evolution of society belied many of the prophecies of Marx, the true socialism folded from possible to probable. The only feasible socialism socialisticamente is corporatism, confluence, balance and justice interests compared to the collective interest." "I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts." Quotes about Mussolini............ "What a man! I have lost my heart!... Fascism has rendered a service to the entire world... If I were Italian, I am sure I would have been with you entirely from the beginning of your victorious struggle against the bestial appetites and passion of Leninism." Winston Churchill "Mussolini's care of the poor, his opposition to super-urbanization, his efforts to bring about coordination between capital and labor, seem to me to demand special attention. My own fundamental objection is that these reforms are compulsory. But it is the same in all democratic institutions. What strikes me is that behind Mussolini's implacability is a desire to serve his people. Even behind his emphatic speeches there is a nucleus of sincerity and of passionate love for his people. It seems to me that the majority of the Italian people love the iron government of Mussolini. He is the great statesmen of our time.” Gandhi "Long live Mussolini! Long live socialism!" (Last words of Italian communist party leader Nicola Bombacci) "A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve." G. K. Chesterton "The greatest genius of the modern age." Thomas Edison "To Benito Mussolini, from an old man who greets in the ruler, the Hero of Culture." Sigmund Freud "Unfortunately, I am no superman like Mussolini." Gandhi "What a waste that we lost Mussolini. He is a first-rate man who would have led our party to power in Italy." Vladimir Lenin "Mussolini was the only one among you with the mind and temperament to make a revolution. Why did you allow him to leave?" Vladimir Lenin "In Italy, comrades, in Italy there was but a Socialist able enough to lead the people through a revolutionary path, Benito Mussolini." Vladimir Lenin "Mussolini was the greatest man of our century, but he committed certain disastrous errors. I, who have the advantage of his precedent before me, shall follow in his footsteps but also avoid his errors." Juan Perón "There seems to be no question that Mussolini is really interested in what we are doing and I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy." Franklin D. Roosevelt "I don't mind telling you in confidence that I am keeping in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman." Franklin D. Roosevelt "Some of the things Mussolini has done, and some that he is threatening to do go further in the direction of Socialism than the Labour Party could yet venture if they were in power." George Bernard Shaw "Mussolini was farther to the Left in his political opinions than any of his socialist rivals." George Bernard Shaw "Mussolin is a man no less extraordinary than Lenin. He, too, is a political genius, of a greater reach than all the statesmen of the day, with the only exception of Lenin. Georges Sorel "Mussolini was the only man who could have brought about the revolution of the proletariat in Italy." Leon Trotsky
who in their right mind would want big government? that's like always having your boss breathing down your neck 24/7 screaming at you and nit picking for every little thing.
Having the government provide the people services doesn’t make it a dictatorship. Do note, the countries with the biggest welfare programs (Mostly in Europe) have the highest scores of Democracy in the world too. (I wonder why?) Also Joe Biden is far from a socialist considering he’s done many things that piss off progressives. Also like how you compare Stalin with Biden when they have almost nothing in common. And if your comparing Biden with Stalin than it’s justified to compare Trump with Hitler.
Fascism’s ideologies are always encumbered by ideals of nationalism and “our group is the best group”. This is by far a right wing ideology. When the left wing ideologies of socialism and communism literally in the name and definition is about everyone of the working force being equal and pursuing democracy then it’s impossible to label fascism as a left wing ideology. Also if anyone actually believes hitler and the Nazis were socialists then you really need to touch up on your historic knowledge. The socialists and communists were the FIRST people hitler went after. Not only that but there was private organization in Germany and anything “social” was only for the white Germans. It wasn’t inclusive, again it was fascist.
@@ottovonbass-mark5424 they are in a sense the issue really is that words like fascism can describe more then just economic model but also what are typical fascist characteristics. So for instance I would say most governments show characteristics of fascism but aren’t necessarily fascist. The USSR could be called fascist for many of the things they did.
The shiite's and sunni's have been going after each other for centuries, that doesn't mean that aren't both Muslims. Factions of the same ideologies have taken each other out all the time throughout human history. I don't where this idea came from that two groups fighting must have diametrically opposed belief systems.
Your literal first section just described China and Soviet Russia. So those were far right to you? You know nothing of history. Both communism and fascism were born from socialism. Every criteria you used to define fascism as right wing is equal applicable to the communist nations. What, you don't know of the communist purges and ethnic cleansings?
Regarding "They were socialists," let me answer your objections. First, you said that unlike Hitler "socialists are concerned with reducing inequalities". However, you also said "[Hitler] tried to appeal...campaigning with promises about everything [e.g. socialism]." What you are missing is this same sloganeering dynamic applies to socialists - they will say things like "equity" or "reduce inequality", when in fact those slogans have little bearing on what they are actually seeking to achieve. Indeed, socialists most certainly create vast inequalities. Thus George Orwell's sentiment that socialists don't love the poor, rather they just hate the rich...even after the socialist leaders become rich. As such, like "socialist" Hitler, socialists in general are ALSO famous for not sticking with their alleged principles and stated claims. In effect, you are giving a "pass" on general socialist slogans that you aren't giving to Nazis. I'm reminded of the mantra "the Soviet Union wasn't true socialism/Marxism." The apologists of socialism will never allow that a "true" socialism ever existed, and de-railing Nazism from the word "socialist" is part of such apologetics (no, I am not calling you an apologist of socialism - just noting there are other forces at work on these modes of terminology). Conversely, I'll also note that the Soviet Union was becoming increasingly, explicitly nationalistic in the 1930's and onward (even referencing its Russian-self as "the Motherland") - and yet nobody bothers to call them fascists. Nor is that designation given to North Korea, or Iran...despite their nationalistic posture. Second, yes Hitler privatized a number of public companies. However, (1) he would seize those companies instantly and gift them to others, if there was non-compliance with his wishes. Thus it was effectively fake privatization. Furthermore (2) all private housing was declared public. Ending the era of private homes/housing allowed warrantless searching of homes for Jews. This public housing model significantly trumps the company privatization exercise. One last point. Fascism was created by Giovanni Gentile, who designated fascism as a special type of socialism. To Gentile, fascists are socialists with a national identity. It is interesting that it is hard to find socialists who DO NOT have a nationalistic identity. This is because, in general, socialists need the power of the state to enforce their ideology and its claims of having the moral high-ground. Consider BLM and LGBTQ+...both of which have flags, and those flags have been flown over official U.S. government offices of state (such as at embassies). The ethos of BLM is simply black nationalism and LGBTQ+ is simply queer nationalism. Both either (1) seek the power of the state to enforce their ideologies or (2) seek to destroy the state (Post-modernism versus the U.S. and its liberal democracy) and replace it with a new nation. In all these cases (Russia, North Korea, LGBTQ+, etc.) nobody refers to them as "fascists"...even despite having black-clad Antifa (with their own nationalistic flag) as the new version of brown-shirts, protecting drag-queen shows delivered to children. In short, (1) either "fascist" will be applied only to the Axis powers as a means of controlling perceptions about socialism or (2) its application needs to be expanded and thus applied "evenly" to: Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, North Korea, BLM, LGBTQ+, etc. I think the best option is simply to recognize that just as we don't need distinctions between "socialist" and "Socialist", or "capitalist" and "Capitalist", or "communist" or "Communist"...likewise we don't need a distinction between "fascist" and "Fascist". As I see it, those people and movements that designate themselves as "socialist" (Russia, Nazi Germany, BLM)...should simply be given the label they asked for. It's like respecting somebody's preferred pronouns. ;)
@n66 _"I like that rig ht-wing ers will twist logic in knots to convince themselves that fa scis m was so ciali sm to make a political point"_ You do realize that both Mu ssoli ni and the philosopher behind the whole ideology, were so ciali sts right? Not only that, but it is explicitly stated by Gio vanni Gentile that fas cism is a form of soc ialis m and both Gentile and Mussolini were strictly against cap italism. Both advocated for state control over the mea ns of produ ction, which is a form of soc ialism.
@n66 _"The truth of the matter is fascism benefited large industry and wealthy land owners and crushed the power of the work ing class and workers."_ What "large industry" and "land owners" exactly? Muss olini Nationalized 75% of the It alian Econ omy. When it comes to the power of the working class, Musso lini just imitated Le nin and did pretty much exactly what he did prior Mus solini.
I think the main problem arising in the comment section is that people are discussing about the "political left/right" without having defined EXACTLY how the political left/right are defined (and I'm not talking about extremism).
Well, left wing's been defined by social equality and right wing by social hierarchy since the era of the French Revolution when those in the left wing of the National Assembly were in favour of revolution and justice for the people of the third estate while those in the right wing opposed the revolution and wanted to conserve the monarchy. Fascism's sort of the benchmark to which social hierarchy and inequality are measured. To claim that it isn't far-right would be blotting out reality.
@@CulturalMarxist4985 Liar! THIS is what I'm talking about: "Fascism's sort of the benchmark to which social hierarchy and inequality are measured. To claim that it isn't far-right would be blotting out reality." The reality is that fascism is found in every Marxist regime from its inception to the present day!
It’s neither, it’s not bound to a spectrum. All instances of fascism in history have been right wing, but it’s not bound to the right wing, it could also be left wing.
Man I love going back & watching these old Prager U 5min videos. Some are 5 to 7 yrs old. And I love watching them just as much as I did when I 1st discovered Prager U. Thank you everyone at Prager U for all the years & many more to come. 🇺🇸
@@regisglass5464 Of course Capitalism is Left Wing according to the people who live in Socialist Clown World. This is because Socialism is 100% catastrophic, all you dimwits can do is confuse Capitalism with Socialism and try to take the credit for the enormous wealth Capitalism has produced. 😂
@@willnitschke while i understand your view that PragerU lives in clown world, i assure you they are not socialists even if they seem to imply capitalism is left wing at 4:28
@@regisglass5464 Child, you're confusing me with your parents. Nobody except them is going to waste their time doing what you demand. If you have some retarded comment to make, just make it. So I can fun of you all over again.
Fascism is clearly left. Giovanni Gentile, the father of Fascism, was Marx's student. Gentile based fascism largely on marxist thinking. When compared to communism, there is a huge overlap on tactics and goals. The difference is globalist vs nationalist marxism. Communists/socialists are globalist, fascists are nationalist.
@ba1 _"No , fasci sm is an ideology of hierarchy , social Darwinism , patriarchy , nationalism , etc. , it's clearly rig ht-wi ng. "_ Wrong. Fasci sm was a totalita rian f ar-le ft, socia list ideology based on natio nal syndica lism. It was rig ht from mar xism, not rig ht-wi ng by any means. Also none of those things you mention have a political alignment by default. They can be used by either side.
@ba1 _"and started as a reactionary force to resist the rise of soci alism in Italy"_ Wrong. Fasci sm never resisted social ism. They never had problems with it. It was a revolutionary movement, and opposed mar xism specifically, not socia lism in general.
No, left wing thought is based upon equality while right wing thought is based upon hierarchy. To assume fascism is left wing would be to imply Hitler saw the Jews as equal to aryans.
I can't believe as a socailist I have to defend Fascism but let's get this going. First no, Fascism is neither left nor right, it is something called "the third position" (meaning it has roots from both sides and can't be pined on a 2d platform), secondly Giovanni Gentile believed that the F word was a modern form of what Plato believed in. Secondly, no National Socialism (Nazism) is not a form of fascism as it is a more race based platform, while fascism is not based in race rather in nationality, as well as it being thought up by Anton Drexler, who was the creator of the German Workers Party. While Gentile never himself created a party though he wrote part of Benito Mussolini's book the "fascist Manifesto". Also, no the modern left is not fascist due to both fascism and national Socialism denouncing it in one way or another, and I'm pretty sure Joe Biden doesn't plan on becoming Il Duce of the united states. Secondly, Fascism is a very religious based ideology, for the best example look at falangism witch is a extreme form of Catholic fascism that ruled of Spain from 1939 to Fransico Franco's death in the 1970's (Can't remember if it was in the 70's exactly, sorry if I'm wrong.), also most fascist countries would be considered a "mixed economy" somewhat close to what we have here within the us but with maybe a bit more government control. Now if you would like to learn more about these things, you can easily find it online or look through what the actual people believed in, like Mussolini, Hitler, and Franco. Now thank you for coming to my ted talk. PS: The edit was due to youtube not allowing me to say f a s c i s m, also this isn't meant as a defense of me saying it's a good ideology, just trying to point out what the people actually believed in.
@Humanity Galatica Yea, what I meant was more of it can be religious like in Spain under Franco. Though Hitler still towards the german people still tried to act somewhat pro christian which is why he made "Positive Christianity" which was Christianity but Jesus wasn't Jewish and he was from Ukraine, as well as he refused to leave the catholic church so he wouldn't cause any dissent.
Surprisingly well informed. I'd have a few minor critiques though, Fascism can be secular, or religious, it depends on the country. Romanian legionarism & Spanish falangism being Christian where are Germany, Italy etc were secular. Fascists also don't consider Franco to be a Fascist, but a reactionary conservative larping as a syndicalist. In Falangism, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Onesimo Redondo and Ramiro Ledesma Ramos would be actual Falangists. I also don't want a mixed economy under a capitalist mode of production. One misconception is that it's basically Keynesianism, this was the case due to the material conditions but a corporate structure with a syndicalist mode of production is what's generally desired. Well informed though, who knows, maybe one day you'll switch sides :)
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>Checks Google >"Opposed to liberalism, democracy, Marxism, and anarchism, fascism is placed on the far right within the traditional left-right spectrum." >Bruh moment
@Humanity Galatica apologies then why have all fascist regimes that have ever existed attempted to kill those they saw as lesser humans? Do you recall Hitler?
@@regisglass5464 Hitler wasn’t a fascist, he was a Nazi. Nazism and Fascism are two different philosophies. With that said, Mussolini wasn’t a racist. From Italy’s pre war period 1922-1940 only 9 people were executed to death, so fascists didn’t kill anyone they saw as “not human” The National Fascist Party in Italy had 10,000 Jews in it, 1/3 of Italy’s adult Jewish population, the fascist party also had Libyan and Arab members as well.
@@soraparent1256 Apologies but what did mussolini say in 1921 about fascism and "the perennial" race of aryans? What did he say in 1920 about slavs? What did he do to them in the concentration camps?
I think people who did enough research on fascism know who Gentile is. Plus, Fascism aimed to stop the Inequality of Capitalism and the Class Warfare of Socialism. So therefore. It definitely isn’t a Left ideology, But im also arguing that it aint a Right ideology either.
Fascists did not aim to stop inequality at all. Inequality was attractive to Mussolini and Hitler. Why do you think they killed left wingers and had conservatives in their cabinets?
I would sometimes consider fascists, Nazis, and their ‘neo’ successors to be AuthCenter or AuthCenter-leaning, I mean no wonder why they’re sometimes referred to as “third positionists”.
The syndicalists of Edmondo Rossoni were 3 times as large as the fascist party and the founder of the communist party Nicola Bombacci was appointed economics minister
This doesn't really have to do with the video but I really want to vent about this real quick. So in my honors English class (I'm a sophomore in high school) my teacher assigned us this short essay to write (at least 4 pages in length, so it is pretty short) where we have to find an opinionated current events article and write about how the author used rhetoric strategies to make his argument. From the beginning I was both looking forward to doing this assignment (because I love writing about things that I'm passionate about and I love writing in general) and dreading it because I live in the very Democratic state of New York and whenever I talk/write about something conservative in school I typically get yelled at by my peers and I get dirty looks from my teachers. It's really frustrating and I don't like to share my political views with others as a result of the treatment that I have gotten in the past for doing such and I frequently try to hide the fact that I'm a republican from a lot of my very liberal friends (which is all of my friends except for three, and I don't just not have a lot of friends, I swear). And my parents are Democrats too, but that's a whole different topic. So back to the story; my teacher told us that we can email her potential articles if we want to get her 'okay' about them. So being the good student that I am, I started looking for articles immediately (even though I know that almost everybody in my class started their work for this assignment yesterday or today) and I sent her articles that I wanted to do. But this liberal teacher of mine kept on giving me BS excuses to not let me do any of the more right-leaning articles that I asked about doing. This was really starting to piss me off because I desperately wanted to start this essay already because I'm so busy with my other schoolwork and cheerleading, but she was significantly delaying my start. But today she finally (reluctantly) approved one of my articles (probably because the essay is due tomorrow at midnight). I just don't understand why liberals have to be so discriminatory towards conservatives. I can tell you that I never argue against liberals about politics and I completely understand and respect the other sides views. But I get treated this way by my own teacher?? It's just frustrating. And btw, the article that I'm doing is about Google and many of their employees discriminating against conservative employees. So that's kinda related to what just happened in my life (and I can imagine that crappy grade that I'm gonna get on this essay just for that reason) and it's a really good article. Here's the link: www.google.com/amp/www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/11/03/leak-google-employees-defend-discrimination-against-conservatives/amp/
Nice points. Unfortunately you will be tagged by TH-cam(Google) as one with conservative viewpoints and be only allowed a limited number of characters in your comments fr
Today's liberals are fascists who oppose anyone who dares to disagree with liberal dogma. Liberalism is a religion for most liberals because they do not believe in god (read Ann Coulter's book, Godless!). If you can get a video of one of your teachers preaching liberal dogma to your class, do it and post it on TH-cam. Also, contact conservatives in the new media and tell them about your experiences with being discriminated against by your teachers. Good luck!
But right-wing ideology really isn't individualistic , it's actually hierarchist and believes people should be organized into hierarchies arranged by identity ( gender , race , wealth , etc. ). Hierarchy is an anti-individualstic structure. The right-wing is also anti-individualistic socially and they demand conformity to group norms on things like gender expression and sexual orientation , etc. This is kind of a ridiculous argument...
Are you kidding me? That’s what the left does😂 They see the world as in identity groups. We believe in the meritocracy and that inequality is a part of human nature! Nothing to do with race!
I think you are mixing ideas. We are ALL humans social animals, doesnt matter if you are leftist or right wing. Hierarchies exist naturally and people will always organize in civil or religious institutions. But for leftist the Government should have all the power to meddle in those hierarchies and civil or religious institutions whereas for right wing people those should be left free from the State monopoly of violence as much as possible and let people organize themselves freely.
@@jorgeenriqueecheverria5165 Your comment would be funny if it wasn't so tragic. Only brainwashed people on the right believe this stupid nonsense. The right wing is for a small government and freedom..?! yeah.. unless it's about controlling abortions, drugs, the military, police or prisons etc.. then the right can't get enough of the state, but for example when it comes to helping people with healthcare then the state is suuuper evil. Get a grip on reality.
I'm pretty sure the left is building a hierarchy based on identity politics, not the right. I'm not right or left wing, so I'm looking at this from an objective position. The left today is absolutely fascist. They advocate socialism and conformity of thought and want it enforced by the state. They want the state to force people to agree with them through threat of violence and censorship. That is fascism.
If you are talking about the U.S., that is profoundly false. We live in a Democratic Federal Republic over a union of semi-sovereign states, with a non-centralized government consisting of three branches to redistribute power. It’s as non-totalitarian as you can get, and certainly bears no image of Italian Fascism. We are, however, legislating ourselves with more and more government intervention, mostly driven by Neo Marxist agendas (which require heavy interventionalist “big” government in order to operate).
Who else thought fascism was created by Musolinni?
Fascism is anti-capitalist, so it only makes sense that belongs to the left.
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Has anyone here actually read the Doctrine of Fascism or actual fascist philosophy
@@gary3936 They condemned everyone who was not them. Stalin killed Communists in the soviet union. They called Jews Socialists and Communists, I know that you are not saying it but with your argument I can make the claim that you think that Jews are Socialist and Communist.
Secondly it is about political power, why would you want other people with the same ideas as you but with less murder to rise up.
I can point out that they killed Capitalists as they were seen as greedy, especially at a time where millions of Germans were starving and unemployed.
Furthermore there is a thing called the conservative left as well as a thing called the progressive right. Conservative and progressive is not just a left right thing, after all conservative values fuel into nationalism as it promotes the family the responsibilities of men and women and helpfully an increase in the population.
Also the video points out the origins of Fascism as being National Socialism made by a leftist philosopher and taken up by ex-Socialists in Mussolini case and on that same video the claim that Fascism is right wing is made.
Fascism has no direct doctrine. It was a socialistic movement that Benito Mussolini founded and called it fascismo
@@LeDomge The Doctrine of Fascism is an essay by Gentile and Mussolini. It's short and you can read it online. Reading it would open your eyes that Dinesh here is full of it. Eg what Fascists mean by the state is not the same as Dinesh's liberal concept of the state, but that doesn't stop him from obfuscating the two so that he can spout scare quotes.
@@damianich4824 Define what facists mean by "state" then. Re-reading the Doctrine of Fascism, even with your quote in mind, there is zero evidence I can see that it refers to anything but a centralized authority which restricts individual rights and freedoms, which is everything the Righti in America is against.
@@gary3936 Fascism is outside the realm of Right and Left, bro
Oh my god, who would have known that the anti fascists were the real fascists all along!
Edit: This is sarcastic
Gosh* I'm sorry pls don't hate hate on me
No this video is wrong. The left is about social equality and less social hierarchy. The right is about higher social hierarchy. Please don't listen to liars like De Souza. Do your own research. Google it! Capitalism creates a hierarchy between rich and poor and fascism creates a hierarchy between the dominant race and the inferior race as it tries to establish a "strictly regimented society" THAT IS THE DEFINITION OF FASCISM!!!, therefore FASCISM IS ON THE RIGHT!
Sources:
Fascism: www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism&ved=2ahUKEwj6l6_Ag5bhAhVNgUsFHRDsDXoQmhMwAXoECAwQAg&usg=AOvVaw0HIctDKg0QEsh2HI1lOpuu
Right wing politics: www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_politics&ved=2ahUKEwiL2o-thJbhAhXaZCsKHc6KCfwQFjABegQIERAE&usg=AOvVaw1SFb8sEqPd6ShF6FPd0yal
Left wing politics: www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics&ved=2ahUKEwi91eC_hJbhAhVZVH0KHcQWCxQQFjABegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw1CC52nvXPBfINuBaPNOHM3
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Thank you for writing what otherwise I would have had to write
@@thatoneguynextdoor8794 saved you the time and effort. :)
@@kalanaherath3076 You're incorrect. All this video did was explain points of view of specific people. Not what they actually are. At least attempt to pay attention.
Fascism doesn't have an entirely definite definition. It was all interpretation by different people. Each form that took place was different. It does not really equate to strictly left or right.
"Facism is when the government does stuff" - Benito Mussolini probably
I’m pretty sure the quote was “Socialism is when the government does stuff” by Karl Marx
@@KwangsKwatics mad cuz u got owned haha
@@KwangsKwatics No. It was from Richard D. Wolff, a Marxian economist. The quote is taken significantly out of context though.
“and the more stuff it does the more facister it is, and when it does a real lotta stuff, it’s nationalism” -sun tzu: the art of war
No that’s Lana Rhoades.
Maybe facism is the friends we made along the way?
What do you mean?
Excellent portrait the juxtaposition is just moii 👌
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@@Andre-yu3rb true, but he could also be a stupid leftist
@@Andre-yu3rb Except you know... Jreg isn't really a fan of PragerU... Unless you're speaking "in character" and when he's speaking in favor of political extremism of all sides.
I mean he's making the joke of leftist being nazis in that horseshoe theory video referencing the Nazbol movement.
Don't forget that Nazis invented the "Jewish Bolshevism" conspiracy theory, blaming Jews for socialism and communism.
Not to suggest that only right-wingers can be anti-Semitic. Stalin was anti-Semitic too, but neither Hitler nor Mussolini, nor Hirohito was socialist. They all spoke about the glory of the past. "Make Rome great again" and "Make the Empire (Reich) great again" was among their slogans.
Fascism was created when Mussolini didn't get his spaghetti he had ordered
The chef and mussolini had different definitions...
LOL That's a good one.
Still better than the shitty burgers you eat in America lol
Lol
Good one
Fascist play book: claim its the other side is fascist.
No, the other side is filled with communists and anarchists, I dont call them fascist, I call myself fascist.
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Did you not watch the video?
You may be a proud fascist but most faccists are trying to go under the radar and trick people who don't want fascism into furthering the cause of fascism
@@Skinnymarks the left has no fascists, they have commies and anarchists, sure some fascist dont publically anounce their ideology because well, it has a bad rep. But by calling the left fascist you play by their book, not any form of authoritarianism is fascism.
@@Skinnymarks bro no bc these antifa people dont want a nationalist country
@@katla3393 You are boss man
video:Do you know who's the creator of facsism?
Me:mussolini
video:exactly, no one knows
Mussolini is a fascist leader, it was as if saying Lenin is the creator of Communism, or Roosevelt is the creator of capitalism.
@@dustbites3557 ah yea, jesus made fascism.
@@somnvm37 this
but unironically
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@@dustbites3557 Giovanni Gentile was the creator of fascism
@@commenter6973 I'm Italian and no, Giovanni gentile isn't the creator of fascism, in twenty years of fascism in Italy we had the most number of privatization in our history and the right of Proletarian are soppresed in violence. To rise to power, Mussolini allied himself with the capitalist and conservative right and repressed all forms of left and trade unions. However, let's analyze from the social point of view, capitalist society is hierarchical or vertical, there are men who are higher and men who are lower and this also happens with fascism. instead the communism conceived by karl Marx foresees the abolition of hierarchies and therefore promotes a horizontal society. This also happened with Nazism in Germany, and it is not that if you call yourself "national socialism" then you are a "socialist" the facts do not count, it is not that if my name is fish then I am. So the capitalist and fascism are very similar.
I'm Italian and honestly I didn't know even that Gentile existed
So sorry for you man...
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DAMN, nice profile pic of Milliena 😂(Don't remove the covid mask though 😂)
@Julian io sono italiano
@Julian o scritto in inglese il primo commento perché penso che la maggior parte delle persone che guardano questo canali parlano inglese
Fascism works like this:
Right-wing says it's left-wing
Left-wing says it's right-wing
Fascists say they're neither
Neo-fascists you mean. Because fascists nowadays differ in phylosophy to real fascists before.
Real fascists were nothing more than capitalists, supported by big companies
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Hitler and Mussolini weren't capitalists.
They're supported by STATE controlled corporations.
Capitalism is the free exchange of goods and services, when you restrict exchanges between people thats not capitalist, having a state technically own every business in a country (nazi germany, hitler could seize any property/means of production whenever he wanted and it was legal for him to do so) isn't capitalist.
You can argue they're state corporatists, but they're not at all capitalist, i love how commies like you always bring up "lol read a book" yet you call a statist that hates the free market and freedom itself a capitalist.
All drugs should be legal to sell, use and own
All weapons should be legal to sell, use and own
Taxation is theft.
These are pure capitalist views on government and it's regulatory actions, the nazis despised these ideas.
I'm a pragmatic libertarian minarchist, i support regulation that stifles monopolization and very light environmental regulation, you have the right to consume black tar heroine and to build a stationary cannon on your roof.
@Marcus Randall No he wasn't.
HAH the notion that Hitler was a Marxist is laughable. Feel free to actually read one of his speeches or books. His open contempt for all communist ideology and Marx himself is a consistent and significant feature of his rhetoric. Hitler himself said that Marxism is inherently Jewish because Marx was Jewish, and that it was a weak and contemptible ideology designed to ruin a nation's ability to self determine; Even going so far as to say that Communism existed to serve the Jews that (according to him) were trying to take control of the world. He called his ideology National Socialism not because it was based on socialist ideology, but because socialism was very popular in Germany. Multiple parties called themselves some variant of socialism. The first concentration camps were built to detain outspoken socialists and socialist ideology was banned after the Nazi party came to power.
I know it's popular to equate Hitler and the Nazis with stuff people don't like, but you can't claim Hitler was even a little bit Marxist without ignoring all of the relevant history, including his own freaking words.
@Marcus Randall In what way was he a marxist?
"Selfless people must stop focusing on personal freedoms and be willing to subordinate themselves to the community!"
"Okay, but who gets to make decisions for the group?"
"Well, it was my idea, so..."
Yea thats a shit idea. Instead lets have the people decide whats best for them (even though the majority of people are complete retards)
Hahahah! Excellent ! Great comment! :D
@@dennisdaniel1208 Yeah, but the type of person arrogant enough to think they know best for everybody isn't much better.
@ls7orBust2
>happy
>whats best for them
Pick one.
@@silverblade357 you say that like they dont know.
Giovani: “We are just one big Family”
Dominic Toretto: “Guess now I’m a facist”
This is a PragerU video. These people don't read or care about truth, learning, facts, etc. This channel's sole function is to run propaganda for oil billionaires.
😂that's a good one
That would be someone who likes to take it in the face
That would be someone who likes to take it in the face
That would be someone who likes to take it in the face
"Former Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, is quoted as saying, “Fascism should more appropriate be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power. Benito Mussolini
That sounds a lot like the globalists and their NWO, does it not?
I've seen the quote. I don't know if it's true or not. If it is, then America is fascist, no matter who you vote for, because corporate cronyism and back dealing is at play weather Democrat
or Republicans are in.
Communism isn't a viable alternative either, because it's simply a massive conglomeration of state, industry, and military. It may be due to Italian language. The term corporate means body (ie
corpse,corporeal), to imply many acting under one body, much like how Catholic refers to being one with the body of Christ.
Nathan Sharp: Look at a photo of the House of Representatives, and notice what is mounted on the wall on either side of the Speaker. Fascism has been within the US since Thomas Jefferson and the creation of the political parties. It was Jefferson's party that ushered in the word, Democratic.
You don't know what Corporatism is, do you?
Corporatism: "The control of a state or organization by large interest groups."
Example: "Fascism was the high point of corporatism."
A political party, labor union, or a grouping of the members of the wealthy power elite, such as a "round table group" (NGO), is an interest group. The UN and EU are very good examples of controlled authority, as well as any corporate state/government being controlled by the same groups. This is why FDR stated that he admired Mussolini's fascism. It was FDR who helped create the UN, which originated with the Lend-Lease Plan, before it was revealed to the public and organized as an official world authority. The UN is controlled by corporate interests.
You might also find that Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler were controlled by large corporate interests, outside of Russia, Italy, and Germany, and thus, so were their governments instead of the other way around. Marx was also an elitist puppet of the old noble ruling class.
The United States Govt. has also been controlled by a group of the wealthy power elite, especially financiers, since its founding. FDR stated that it started under Jackson, but in reality, it started under Washington, Hamilton, and Jefferson with the war debt, Wall Street, and trade with Europe.
This video was made 2 years ago, yet, "we're all in this together", is the annoying mantra in every covid commercial and grocery store.
Ignorance can be created when we ignore something, and I myself have seen this vid too long ago though.
Good observation!
Hillary was supposed to bring Fascism to America but they botched that, so now they're pimping COVID-19 to get what they want.
Just looking at how badly the US is handling the pandemic tells me that you are not in fact in this together..
It's mostly in the US you see the crazies who claim it's their "right" to not wear masks.
When does your right end and another's right begin?
Does your right to not wear a face mask supercede anothers right to avoid infection?
RandalfTheBlack I mean, what about covering ur mouth when u sneeze/cough? U don’t see the government requiring that. And just like wearing a mask, it can stop the people around u from getting sick.
I don't understand, when and why has being on the right mean you're automatically a racist? Racism shouldn't be a political ideology because ANYONE can be racist. Also racist countries are usually authoritative and emphasise government and state powers, unlike conservative values.
Damn, Arthur Morgan is now a political philosopher?
@@dss345 Yes, we should go back to the 1800's, I use to think the world was changin' back then, I don't even understand this.... machine I'm usin' !
True dat, but in general the left is more accepting.
@@donaldrump71 not of differing opinions though.
Well, one isn't necessarily like Donald Trump if one's right wing, but left wing's been defined by social equality and right wing by social hierarchy since the era of the French Revolution when those in the left wing of the National Assembly were in favour of revolution and justice for the people of the third estate while those in the right wing opposed the revolution and wanted to conserve the monarchy. Racism contradicts social equality.
The best way to avoid history from repeating itself, is learning and understanding what it was.
Nationalist Socialists and fascists referred to themselves as left-wing socialists and were both big government gun grabbers. The Nazi's were a merger of two socialist parties, including the economically socialist Political Worker's Circle (PAC), joined at the hip with the european communists. However, the Nazi's formed a coalition government with a right-wing populist party in Germany called the German National People's Party (DNVP), which had more seats than the Nazi's did. So that coalition might've been right-wing populist, but Hitler kept calling his party, "From the camp of bourgeois tradition, it takes national resolve, and from the materialism of the Marxist dogma, living, creative Socialism," anti-liberal, and anti-capitalist.
@@MaxAbramson3 So Far right neo nazis are really left wing ? ? LOL : )
@@MaxAbramson3 Hitler is not only known as being Far Right, Capitalism`s cult of the individual is attractive to dictators
Yes. And fight against canceling historical figures, tearing down their statues. History, and the people who made history, for good or ill, have a lot to teach us that can inform our future.
I agree, but it also requires understanding how the use of philosophical and political terms and concepts gets muddled over time.
If you were to study the origin of liberalism, for example, starting with John Locke, you'd be very confused by its applications in modern American cultural context, where the meaning has become more like an oxymoron.
I prefer to resist these ambiguities and refer back to source material and origins, because the changes often have the intent of fooling people, engineering the way they think.
Case example: the Swastica existed for thousands of years in the Hindu religion and meant prosperity. Hitler stole it and now when people see it they think of bigotry and destruction.
Those who seek power will steal words and symbols to wear like wolves in sheep clothing and trick people into following them. This creates historical ambiguities down the road.
Never even heard of this Gentile fella by accident, until today.
He does good stuff. You should check out his books and movies. They're pretty good if you lean right.
He is very well known in Europe. In Italy is as well known as Adam Smith is in US. There is a "Via Giovanni Gentile" in any big city of Italy.
bobon123 Yes he was mostly a philosopher and an intellectual, these guys at praguer don't actually care about fascism otherwise they'd know better
+a b They called him a philosopher, so...
Jos Meid Yes but if I want to know about fascist belief I'd rather look at what Mussolini said, not what Gentile said. I find it interesting, and maybe suspiciously convenient, that they quote Gentile more than Mussolini. There were plenty of different intellectuals that were supported or tolerated by the fascist regime, many of them were at odds with each other (example D'Annunzio and Marinetti) and none of them dictated the philosophy of fascism, Mussolini did (in fact he decided to persecute the Jews even if some Jews were among the founders of the Fascist party). In this case the dishonesty of pragerU is clear
I used to think the word "fascism" had something to do with the word "fascination" when I was young.
So, you were a moron when you were young, and you remain a moron to this very day? I read Mussolini's 'The Doctrine of Fascism' when I was 16. I read 'Das Kapital' and 'The Communist Manifesto' at the same time. I am STILL to this very day laughing at 'The Communist Manifesto' because I picked it apart with ease at the age of 16.
Dude, what are you even talking about? I was just posting something funny, and you went crazy for like, no reason, man.
@@nationalistcanuck7800 what even made you so UNJUSTLY entitled enough to one up some casual dude who just had to express his thoughts and then make a whole pointless speech about what a 4th grader can literally do you stupid moron
@@nationalistcanuck7800 Is your ego that bruised you moron?
@@nationalistcanuck7800 that manifesto was made so that the illiterate working class could understand it, so I guess it says a lot about you
Actually makes me laugh they call conservatives, the people who stand for small government and strong on the 2nd amendment fascist.
The video makes the distinction of fascism too simplistic. For example, Fascism and Anarchism are complete opposites in some respects (Authoritarianism) but they're both considered far left. Fascism took hold in Germany due to the popularity of Nationalism, which is where the parallels to US conservatives come from.
If conservative stood for small government, wouldn't it be considered conservative to want the legalization of abortion and drugs?
@@CulturalMarxist4985 yes and no. Do I want to syringes everywhere and more people with aids? Not at all. Legalize some drugs but not all of them. I have never really had a big problem with abortion. I think the right over reaches on this topic. I rather see them focus their efforts in teaching youth responsibility so they never have to make the choice in the first place. It's sad but it's not my problem or business. These two issues are nowhere near the same as the left issues with big government.
@@anomalyevolution40 Well, the point is that conservative just means reluctant to accept new ideas. Nothing to do with small government. Left wing's been defined by social equality and right wing by social hierarchy since the era of the French Revolution when those in the left wing of the National Assembly were in favour of revolution and justice for the people of the third estate while those in the right wing opposed the revolution and wanted to conserve the monarchy. Fascism's sort of the benchmark to which social hierarchy and inequality are measured. To claim that it isn't far-right would be blotting out reality.
@@CulturalMarxist4985 i think the connection is that, as you said, cons are reluctant to change, the US is capitalistic, capitalism/free market requires small gov't. Seems to me in the US (as an outsider) the left want gov't intervention economically, but liberation in their personal lives. Then the right want freedom/no involvement from the gov't, except when it comes to freedoms that go against their beliefs. Am I right in thinking the right are more religious?
Haha, "were in this together." Sounds familiar
Did Trump not say that a few times
The British Conservative Party 2010 manifesto had a grpahic that said that, does that mean they are left wing?
@@thewatcher776 really? Your trying to make a non political statement political
Uniting people has always been the most powerful rhetorical tool.
Folks, is it fascist to *checks notes* be in it together?
The ultimate “no u”
That doesn’t work as things change.
PudgeControlsTheWeather prager u, more like no u
LMAO true
@julien villagrana That Goebbels dude is funny.
@Jake Buttocks, I’m all about your mom ❤️🖕
I find it funny that the creator of fascism's last name means "gentle/nice" in italian.
USA You see? The Marxists just wanna silence a nice guy
@@yeabuddy1610 Who's a nice guy?
USA Sarcasm, my friend
Well he had good intentions.., I think. Don’t quote me on that.
to be fair I dont think there is any obligation within fascist doctrine to go and start a war, I guess if everyone was pro-fascist it could be gentle
History is a interesting thing.....
Björn Westman yeah it is and to modern conservatives, it starts at the enlightenment.
yeah it is, conservatives should read more of it so they know what theyre talking about
JayPfo seems like recently it has always been left wingers trying to censor inconvient history.
We need to acknowledge that none of us KNOW history. We know of events, we know of writing that historically famous people have written and published, we know philosophical concepts, but we don't know anything really about times in which no modern person has lived and experienced. For example, if you were to put together all of my writing in comments over the years (what a nightmare that would be), you would think some very strange things about me that likely aren't true. But all of that would be through the lens of someone who has a certain idea of their own about things that happened today. No one can know what my full opinion is on anything because you simply can't know that.
Especially when you're in the middle of it.
How the hell does nobody know Giovanni Gentile? I live in Italy, and here he's considered one of the most important philosophers of the XX century. He changed the school system into a new fascist one, and we still use it.
Unfortunately he's not well known in North America, don't know about the rest of Europe.
Not taught in schools here in the United States. This is the first I’d heard of him, and I am fairly well-educated. It is just as Dinesh says, the Left hides him from the rest of the world.
nobody knows him in caucasus or russia
Id like to hear more about the Italian school system
Because Democrats cover him up and hide him so they can change America fascist!
"For me all these names of Left and Right, of Conservative, Aristocracy and Democracy are so many empty academic terms. They serve occasionally to distinguish, but more often to confuse." - Benito Mussolini, 27 November 1922
Based Mussolini.
Can't believe I'm saying this
@@BS-bd4xo you're not too bright. Politics is all about what other people think of you. It's the opposite of "Based".
Based Musso
His talking about the left and right in europe, not AMERICA. But good deflection!
@@FM-dm8xj either way it’s the same shit everywhere for the most part throwing around words with no real meaning to hide true intentions
"Well I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There's only an up or down: [up] man's old -- old-aged dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. " - Ronald Reagan
Fascism, Nazism, Communism, Socialism - It's all the same to me. Just more tyranny.
God bless that beautiful man. If I were gay he would be "The One".
Arguing the differences between these philosophies, is like arguing who is the hottest girl in a Robert Palmer video.
I agree with Brian nothing is right or wrong good or bad just everything you believe is good or bad or right or wrong it's just words to make people hate or like something to keep people safe(like laws) and it's all about what you believe
lol, the history of facism is censored using facist tactics. The Irony
Norse Titan
It is quite ironic.
Norse Titan it's not censored at all......... Like people know about. Gentile, it's just your uneducated ass listening to conspiracy theories to lower the general left side to create an "us against them" mentality
Egil heistad just that I brought up that it is repressed information doesn't mean that I am A) uneducated, and B) that it is not censored. It can still be censored, just that the information is available, doesn't mean it isn't censored. People can post videos or articles that can be taken down for having this information, and we wouldn't know about it, which is sort of the point of censorship.
Norse Titan But if your taught it in school it pretty much means it's not censored doesn't it? And no you're probably well educated, that's why you think that there's a government conspiracy censoring and hiding information from the public to make the right seen facist even though they know themselves that THEY'RE THE FACIST... Sure....
I was never taught this information in school, and I didn't necessarily say that it's a government conspiracy, but more of individuals on the left as well as leftist media
Blood and soil
We exist as the lifeblood of the state
Strong adherence to military
Hyper masculinity and strict gender roles
Clinging to a nostalgia of a mythical past when the state was strong
All citizens serve the state (collectivism)
The state and the individual are one
The narrator here is wrong that fascism isn’t a right wing ideology. It may incorporate some ideas of leftism like collectivism, but the rest is straight up conservative
Nearly every definition you used is a form of collectivist thinking. Conservatives believe the rights of the individual trumps the state's "right" to dictate policy. The political Left believes the opposite. It is by default totalitarian.
No you re tar d.
It is left wing. He even named all of the Fascist’s political leanings and they were ALL left wing...
Unless you debunk that or show an example of someone who’s right wing and a fascist (sorry to tell you but Hitler was left also... he got along with the Soviets in the beginning for a reason)
"Those Who Do Not Learn History Are Doomed To Repeat It."
No truer words were ever spoken.
And apparently historians are left? -Praguer U.
@Spartan 506 That's what it said on the video.
As Gandhi said.....
"Mussolini's care of the poor, his opposition to super-urbanization, his efforts to bring about coordination between capital and labor, seem to me to demand special attention ... My own fundamental objection is that these reforms are compulsory. But it is the same in all democratic institutions. What strikes me is that behind Mussolini's implacability is a desire to serve his people. Even behind his emphatic speeches there is a nucleus of sincerity and of passionate love for his people. It seems to me that the majority of the Italian people love the iron government of Mussolini."
"He is the great statesmen of our time.”
@@user-kd3gz1hl1e He was an asshole I’m Italian he’s hated in the south he didn’t improve living standards
Something tells me this answer wouldn't come up if you asked Alexa...
Who's Alexa? Is she about as deranged as Dinesh?
ZANIACK Dinesh makes pretty good points tbh
"Sorry, I don't know that one."
Or anyone who actually bothered to do any real research on the matter.
Lmao you fell for that Crowder video? That was staged (or wikipedia was edited), they most likely used the Simon Says feature on Alexa. If you know anything about tech you'd know it's impossible for Amazon to program individual answers into Alexa (other than the hi hello stuff) because of lack of physical memory.
I feel like maybe we should start making more good idea vs. bad idea arguments and stop making so many left vs. right arguments. The good idea vs. bad idea ones seem to be much more useful in the scheme of things, especially when the solution to a problem is somewhere between left and right.
The only problem with good idea vs bad idea when it comes to dealing with the left is they think emotionalism vs good idea wins. It's hard to beat them with brains when they think with their emotions.
Onehappydawg Yeah, that's a legitimate problem. But somebody who does think logically can recognize good ideas most of the time. Just yelling at the idiots "I'm not a fascist, you're a fascist!" isn't going to accomplish much in the way of attracting those logical people, it will probably just drive them away and disenfranchise them. Stooping to your opponent's level isn't often a good idea as far as political discourse goes.
I don't see many stooping to their level. On the right I see most trying to use logic and common sense it is the progressive left that shouts at everyone they disagree with. In a group the progressive left is impossible to reason with, but when singled out and reasoned with one on one sometimes there can be a break though of the brainwashing they have had.
Onehappydawg Keyword "most", but MOSTLY fair enough. We can't always reason with the loud extremes of the political spectrum, so the most we can do is drown them out with reason until they can't be heard above the deafening sound of common sense.
Onehappydawg, its funny you should say that, I was just talking to a "libtard" who said the same thing about you.
An early supporter of the Fascist movement, he has been called the philosopher of Fascism. Gentile cooperated with the fascist government and became an apologist
of the totalitarian state, which he viewed as the embodiment of the moral spirit. He called for the total submission of the personality to the state and for the dissolution of individuals in political history.
From The Free dictionary
*_Farthest Left_* 100% government; 0% individual liberty and responsibility; Collectivism.
*_Farthest Right_* 0% government; 100% individual liberty and responsibility; Individualism.
*_Americanism_* 5-10% government; 90-95% individual liberty and responsibility.
Derived from Thomas Sowell (Intellectuals and Society, ch.6), and John Birch Society video, "Overview of America."
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i recommend you read Gentile's Doctrine of Fascism. it explains fascism is "tending to the right" because individualism is leftist. it's actually pretty interesting how well the views he presents map onto modern conservatives. i mean he actually warns leftism leads to atheism at the end
@@regisglass4564 I recommend that you see the JBS video "Overview of America." A far better take on Left-vs-Right.
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@@RodMartinJr do they say fascism is right wing or left wing? for example, do they note Mussolini says: "Now is the time for Italy to move towards the right. Now is the time to eliminate the political left."?
@@regisglass4564 I base my definitions on the work of Thomas Sowell and the John Birch Society, plus the fact that Italian Fascism was a form of Socialism praised by American Progressives.
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Like the old poem stated: "first they came for the capitalists...".
federico amadeo I cant tell if this is ironic or not
Uh no, It’s “First they came for the Communists”
@@maverickcoyote3526
yes
their first target for assassination were socialist, social democrats, communists.
on the other hand the big capitalists of the industry were friends with hitler, the best proof are working camps for industry owning a name of capitalist owners.
in China they came for Jack Ma
Someone find a solution for his glasses on the screen
what are you talking about? it improves the watching experience
Does it have anything to do with the discussion?
@@jimf1964 no
If he stopped turning his head so often, it wouldn't have been a problem.
Have him wear contact lenses while recording. Then in post-production, motion track his head to apply CGI specks that augment onto his face. Easy.
We gotta stop using left and right and start to use the 8 values
8 Values, and what would be the names of those, if you don't mind me asking.
FlappingSeal Equality or FreeMarket, Authority or Liberty, Nation or World and Progress or tradition
I for the most part agree, but we should find other values to add to the spectrum as well. The more complex, the better.
Extreme left, radical left, left wing, left leaning - Right leaning, Right Wing, Radical right, Extreme right.
Honestly though, Those on the right don't exactly have a whole lot of extremists, and the difference between the right and the left is that the left puts for their extremists as these "war heroes" sent out to "FREE US ALL!" Where as conservatives HATE their extremists, because those individuals make us look like fools.
Ivan FTW 8 values is stupid. I suggest Politiscales
Anyone who thinks that they know what is best for everyone using a single principle is arrogant. If we let them roam around spreading their arrogant ideology, they will cause chaos, because everyone's definition of happiness is unique, there is no single method to address them all. My happiness, your happiness and the happiness is not necessarily the same. So we must listen to one another and be considerate.
"If I, as a flawed and imperfect individual, cannot be trusted to mind my own affairs, I certainly have no justification in trusting a government composed of similarly flawed and imperfect individuals to mind them for me." -- Me (channeling Thomas Jefferson's "angels" remark from his inaugural address.)
The federation of the EU is a dictator ex sample
Merry Christmas, fellow "fascists"!
Go home lefty
Flame Fusion I don't think you got the joke. And Merry Christmas! =^[.]^=
Raycheetah I did. I was joking.
Make Dickens Great Again.
“Merry Christmas!” You racist fascist!
It’s a joke if you didn’t get it.
Fascism is more of category, Hitler, Mosley, and Mussolini all had different ideas, mainly revolving around war, economics, and race. Also, Fascism isn’t always Socialist. National Socialism isn’t Marxist Socialist, they just referred to Socialism as meaning helping the people, and “were going to take the word socialism back from the left”.
Matt Malloy Saying Hitler wasn't a fascist is like saying Marx wasn't a communist.
Matt Malloy "Hitler apposed fascism" hahahahahahaha!
Wait, you're serious?
Socialism/communism and fascism are the complete opposites.
Hitler himself said that his form of Socialism was not Marxist Socialism, and that he was determined to retake the word Socialist from the Marxists
I am an Atheist .....I disagreed with D'Souza when he was debating the late Hitchens but as for politics its a no brained ....Everyone ho has the slightest rational should be a Republican.
"republican" doesn't mean "believer in God". No one cares if you are an atheist. If the fascists want you to believe in god, you'd either believe, or be killed for not believing. Guess who the fascist god is? it's the state, obey the state of die.
Robert Smith / Geelos1 Agreed*
Why do people call a micromanager a "fascist"? Because that's what Fascists do, they involve themselves in literally every affair of their subjects.
Neither. Ask a fascist.
Finally!
+Kreacher's Oddysey
How on earth can you not see how silly that statement is? PragerU HATES Fascism and thus will slander it in any way they can. They also officially oppose "leftism" so they will call it left wing because they are biased against it.
Why not ask a leftist what fascism is? Oh yeah right, because the leftist is biased against fascism too and they will tell you it's right wing because they are biased against fascism and right wing-ism.
Think. Use your brain. PragerU is a biased source. Sheesh.
Parger mental gymnastics
Exactly. Fascism is third positionism
Sting Sniperscope im a fascist, Im neither left or right, im centered
We don't belong to the government. It belongs to us. We participate in it, and are affected by its function (or lack thereof), but we don't belong to it. That mentality belongs to serfdom, not liberty.
@Orn Gorn Why would anyone vote for a party that put millions of innocent people in internment camps, steal money from hardworking people to give to lazy people, support gun confiscations, support restricting free speech.
But we should remember because the ghost of fascism will haunt us. That hit me hard.
Boo
haha fascism bad
@@purplelemon3987
"Let me get this straight, you think that fascism is good?"
"I do, and I'm tired of pretending it's not"
*_Don't be dumb, be a smarty, come and join the One America party!_*
@@nobodyatall6620 I mean yeah. Name one bad thing about fascism. And no, "human rights violations" isn't a bad thing.
The answer is it's both
Do the workers own the means of production? No? lol
Mao Zedong no, you see, all socialism really is is big government. Socialism is where the government does stuff and the more stuff it does the socialistier it is and if it does a whole lot of stuff then it’s communism.
Edward Backman and you are wrong as socialism is an economic model which some ideologies follow hence names like "democratic socialists", "populist socialists" and the like. Workers owning the means of production is usually something communists would have and fascism is neither left nor right nor centrist but rather and alternative ideal
It was a joke, Edward Backman was talking shit on Cenk Uygur but no you are wrong workers ownership of the means of production is socialism. Communism is stateless and also the goal of most socialists. Idiots like Bernie calling themselfes "democratic socialist" are not socialist but social democrates. Fascism is far right, it is a ultra conservative ,reactionary and have private property.
Edward Backman communism is an ideology that supports socialism, socialism is an economic model which allows the workers to "gain" what they have earned from labour by giving their earnings to the government to distribute them, and that can lead to some problems but yeah.
Drake democratic socialism is a term that got misused a lot by bernie sanders. Theres a big difference between democratic socialism and social democracy. Social democracy is what bernie campaigns for nd what exists in scandinavia (free college, healthcare, progressive taxing etc.) But it is still firmly a capitalist ideology. Democratic socialism on the other hand is a socialist ideaology where the workers do own the means of production and private property is abolished, but there is still a democratically elected government.
Facism is to the left of the US and most capitalist countries including scandinavian ones, but it still remains on the right overall since the workers do not own the means of production, distribution and exchange and private property still exists.
See, this is why we use the political compass. It's idiotic to say that these sorts of things are black and white. There are plenty of leftists who champion social freedom AND big goverment. There are plenty of right-wingers who champion social control AND small goverment, and vice-versa.
I know. I mean some "right-wingers" support social control, other "right-wingers" support small goverment.
The difference between right and left is really that the right believes social inequality is either unavoidable or for the best, while the left believes social inequality should be fought against. That's why fascism is right, because it is built on the principle that some people are, and should be, superior to others or inferior to others based on their race/nationality.
That's a lot of made up BS.
Remember we are discussing policies, Fascism is neither left or right, same as a dictatorship is neither. That said right is a far more forgiving ideology than left is for it literally stands for equal opportunity through individual actions while left forces equal opportunity through goverment actions. The goverment decides your future in the left
Doesn't that sound similar to, I dont know... Facism? This is from someone that lives in a racist, communist country. Venezuela.
Left is cancer
fascist *
What you just typed really isn't a coherent argument, nor is it a reply to my post.
0:23 for a moment I thought the "R" standed for team Rocket😅
Is team rocket fascist? Mmmm...
Giovanni is the leader of team rocket🤔
nah R stands for racist republicans...double tap! #DEM2020
@@welcometoreality3450 Bruh
@@welcometoreality3450 Are You For Real Right Now?...
Fascism is a dictatorial form of political ideology. Socialism, on the other hand, is an ideology where individuals of a society own the means of production. A fascist ruler wields supreme power and authority over a country. In contrast, rulers of socialist nations distribute power and authority among the states.
A dictator does not tolerate any criticism, opposition, or rebellion; freedom of speech takes a back seat. Compared to fascist regimes, socialist states allow more freedom of speech. Dictators control industries; but in socialist states, the ownership of the means of production lies with the public sector.
Your indoctrination is totally visible, on thing is the concept of socialism and other is the historical results of socialism .
@@jorgei57 Wow, you are claiming I'm the one that is indoctrinated? Clearly you are the one that has been indoctrinated by right wing propaganda and have no clue what Socialism even is. You seem to be indicating that the "historical results of socialism", probably referring to countries like the Soviet Union, North Korea, Cuba and China, which are all well known communist nations that became Totalitarian (not socialist countries, even though Communism is an extreme form of Socialism, it is NOT the only form of Socialism).
The world is not strictly Black and White. Most Ideologies, including Socialism and Capitalism, are not defined by the extreme ends. Socialism has a lot of forms that are NOT Communism, such as what is found in Norway and the other Nordic countries.
Claiming that ALL Socialist nations, and Socialism itself, are Communist is like saying that all forms of Capitalism are Fascist (Which, yes, Fascism is indeed a right-wing ideology that incorporates Capitalism).
@@jorgei57 Also, the point of my post was to show that Fascism is NOTHING LIKE Socialism. Fascism is DEFINATELY NOT a form of Socialism as the video claims. Words mean things and facts (reality) matters -- you can't ignore them just because you have been indoctrinated by right wing propaganda, which this video is.
@Murray Wilson: Hate to burst your bubble, but fa sc is m was a form of (state) soc ial ism.
@@_Historia.Magistra.Vitae. Hate to burst your bubble, but fasc is m was never a form of (state) soc ial ism! You are showing your cluelessness by denying reality and parroting right-wing propaganda.
When looking at history, a common belief of fascism is denouncing socialism and holding up capitalism. While Hitler's political party was named the "National Socialist German Workers' Party," it was not socialist, nor a workers' party. The only thing that relates fascism and socialism is that fascists despise socialists.
Yeah, this channel's basically the Fox News of TH-cam. Even if it weren't a propaganda channel, it doesn't even manage to sound convincing or relatable. I mean, its narrators always tend to speak in robotic, emotionless voices and there's no background music
How there are folks who bother to watch the entire videos, let alone fall for them is beyond me.
Did you differ specifically with anything he said, or did you just not like the way he presented it? You compared the channel to Fox News, said it was propaganda, unconvincing, unrelatable, robotic, and you wanted some accompanying music. But what did he say that you disagreed with?
@@number4cat1 Well, fascism obviously doesn't aim for an egalitarian society, so you can't very well call it left wing. It puts significant emphasis on nationalism to the point that the people of the nation are seen as superior to others. From this extreme nationalism came the concept of racial purity in Nazi Germany. Fascist regimes shared the same extreme nationalist ideas, xenophobia and disdain for feminists, communists and other preachers of social equality. The Doctrine of Fascism even describes it as right wing:
'Granted that the nineteenth century was the century of socialism, liberalism, democracy, this does not mean that the twentieth century must also be the century of socialism, liberalism, democracy. We are free to believe that this is the century of authority, a century tending to the right, a fascist century.'
@@CulturalMarxist4985it does aim for an egalitarian society. It’s a populist state for the Italian nationals. Hitlers racial socialism was for the German RACE. That’s the egalitarian aspect. The facist third way believed it could overcome class struggle by making a strong national identity. These movements were reactions to international Marxism and were created by a bunch of socialists.
@@mrsentencename7334 Hitler didn't abolish capitalism at all though. Neither did Mussolini. That's why they got so much support from capitalists, who were scared shitless of a proletarian revolution after what happened in Russia in 1917.
Benito Mussolini: "I am and will remain a socialist and my views will never change. I have them in my blood. "
How is war not part of the socialist movement???
@Lucas Lombardo "You cannot get rid of me because I am and always will be a socialist. You hate me because you still love me."
“No individuals or groups, political parties, associations, labor unions outside the state. For this reason, fascism is opposed to socialism, which clings ritually to class war, and ignores the unity of the state, which moles the classes into a single, moral, and economic reality.” Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile, The Doctrine of Fascism, 1932. Your quote was from 1914 when Mussolini was still a member of the Socialist Party
@@soraparent1256 they don't read history
Mussolini was hard core left wing socialist
Until he left that party to Create his fascist brown shirt
Main Reason why Fascism is Considered right wing they were Die hard Anticommunist and Anti Leftist
and then they kicked him out his party.
For those of you saying this is somehow wrong or misleading if you could point out the error is Dinesh's claims, I'm sure you could convince me.
AJKeio liberal democracy (what Dinesh calls "conservatism" also has its roots in radical leftism-- the enlightenment itself was far left in the era in which it was born.
Shhh, he doesn't really want you to point out errors otherwise he would have read other comments that have pointed out similar things. He simply wants his world view to be reaffirmed by an echo chamber.
I am honestly curious. I just find it hard to believe that big government in which the state is in control of everything most everything could possibly be right wing. Today's left looks more and more like the then Nazi party who's goal was big government and silencing the opinions of free people.
"... big government and silencing the opinions of free people..." sounds like the entire Trump agenda, to be honest. He's put into action more executive orders than any other President in the last 50 odd years, meaning he's on pace to sign the most of all time, he tries to use the office of the Presidency to dictate the hiring and firing within independent businesses, he wants to wrest control from both the judicial and legislative branches of government to the executive branch (a trend started by the last republican president), he urges the justice department to investigate independent media and reduce the efficacy of the first amendment, he utilizes Orwellian tactics with weirdly positive results- anything he doesn't agree with simply isn't real, he openly contradicts himself from one week to another (in a sort of bizarrely infantile version of double think)-also he has an incredibly punchable face. That last one isn't relevant, but true nonetheless.
Nazis were not socialist, and there has never been a socialistic fascist state. Fascism is actually corporativist.
Google celebrated Gentile not too long ago, it was all over on the search page in true google fashion. Sometimes they are just too bold.
Yes, evil is becoming progressively bolder the more the common man allows it.
Never heard of Giovanni Gentile. I always wondered who was behind Fascism like how Karl Marx was behind Communism.
I thought Mussolini created it cause I watched oversimplified video on it
@@DamianLopez-td3rc Mussolini cofounded fascist ideology with Gentile. La dottrina del fascismo was cowritten by them.
This is a good video on the Fascist ontology laid out by Gentile
www.bitchute.com/video/FMr3VTW30Fuj/
Well Karl Marx did make communism alot more popular but communism actually existed before capitallism in collectivised societies called communes there are even alot around today and they are the closest we have to anarchism as a political system that exists.
@@DamianLopez-td3rc He is a communist himself 🤣🤣🤣
Ideologies and politics are more complicated than a number line but 1 dimension works better for propagandists and dullards.
Nah, you just want to over-complicate things so that they *appear* to be in your favor.
@@AppleOfThineEye No, you just want to simplify and be reductionist so that you can hold onto a false certainty
@@monroecorp9680 There's nothing to simplify man. A political compass is a political compass.
Keep dreaming, or wake up. You'll take the red pill one day I bet. And you'll be happy you did.
@@AppleOfThineEye Lol, Pretty interesting how you reckon you can infer my politics from that comment.
@@monroecorp9680 I can infer that you're a weak philosopher if nothing else, so try again.
And yes, you come off as just another leftist with such philosophy tat loves to complicate things that don't need complication.
if the nazis were socialists than why did corporations like topf and sons (töpf & söhne) and volkswagen play such an important role in germanys economy and war effort? Those privately owned companies would not have existed under socialism
The Nazi's had a socialist name. They where socialists.(before the change) But the party transformed into extreme right wing fascism. But they kept the name...
Herman Willems Did you not watch the video?
@@HermanWillems totally agree they were socialist in the beginning to win support from all the population and it worked, then they transformed into totalitarianism and far right wing ideology.
@Cloud William
25/5000
Nazis were racists. right wing Nazis were Christians right wing Nazis were anti unions right wing Nazis were anti feminists right wing Nazis were capitalists Nazis were anti communists right wing the Nazis were authoritarian.who says that left-wing fascism is either totally stupid or lying
Klaus Menendez because the knew that Nazism would fight communism, something that would be fatal to these corporations
I'm a bit lost. Why are we equating fascism with the left when the idea originates from a socialist, but denies the logic behind its function? I mean sure, you can have left wing fascists & right wing fascists, but all fascists are totalitarian.
Totalitarianism is definitely not left wing. Sure, we could say communism is totalitarian & there is a period described by Marx as the dictatorship of the proletariat (probably his greatest failure in logic), but it wasn't the end objective.
Equating socialised state management & top down dictat is misleading to the point of being a falsehood, as socialist management is defined by group ownership & an equity of involvement.
The root of an idea & it's reality are not one & the same
@lau coloma: _"as so cial ist management is defined by group ownership & an equity of involvement. "_
Incorrect. So ciali sm is nothing more than a basic economic system which advocates for collective ownership/control of the means of production, distribution and exchange. You cannot have a soc ial ist economy without total itari anism since such as system is based on involunta rism and a tot al cent ralization of pow er and eco nomy.
@lau coloma: _"Tot alitar ianism is definitely not l eft w ing. "_
Incorrect. The fundamental differen ces between l eft-w ing and rig ht-win g ideo logies center around the the rights of indivi duals vs. the pow er of the go vern ment. L eft-w ing beliefs are liberal in that they belie ve so ciety is best ser ved with an expan ded role for the gove rnment. Peo ple on the right believe that the best outc ome for society is achie ved when individual rights and civil liber ties are paramo unt and the role - and espe cially the po wer - of the gove rnment is min imized.
@@Historia.Magistra.Vitae. I don't know what group ownership & equity of involvement means to you, but as an economic system that would be... exactly what you said? Sounds to me as if you have read without understanding
Neither the American Right or Left are fascists in any sense. Fascism is neither left or right, but rather radical center as it takes from both sides of the equation to create a different perspective.
Sieger no fascism is ultranationalism which is only right wing, the left wing version is communism, but it's all authoritarianism
Ufphen, wrong. Ultranationalism is not a left/right issue. You can be a hard core communist state and be ultrnationalist. Examples? East Germany, hard core communist and built a wall not to keep out people but to keep the State/Nation's slaves in. North Korea, hard core commie and if you defect they will kill your entire family because you betrayed the state/nation. USSR, the hallmark of Communism and incredibly nationalistic. NAZI Germany, hard cor Socialist while being hard core Nationalist. I could go on for many, many more but you get the idea. Finally extreme right wing is no government at all (normally called Anarchy) where there are no nations. Just shy of that mark is limited power Republics like America started out as (not the Crony Capitalist with socialist tendencies Republic we have now)
wrong Nationalism is right wing since nationalism is about the nation, while left wing would be is about the classless poplutation. North Korea is not communist in fact it was trying to enact a Korean policy of Juche which is a independence from higher powers, aka the communist states, it is more run like a dictatorship than a communist state more in the eyes of a monarchy since the state doesn't care about their people only head of state. You can debate whether these states were communistic since these states cared more about the state than the people which is the opposite of communism. NAZI Germany was not very socialist since most of the power was held with manufacturers and the party, a pretty capitalistic state that was racially and anti-semitically focused will goals of domination which is very right wing. Extreme right can and cannot have a government since it can be libertarian or authoritarian. You have just described a libertarian outcome that isn't right or left wing as libertarianism in the end would have no government but that isn't a right or left issue. Right wing has nothing to do with less government that is a libertarian issue, right wing itself cares about tradition. Leftwing libertarians are anarcho-communist and right wing are anarchist.
simple chart < LEFT-Fascist-Socialist-Strongman Dictatorships-Monarchy---------------------------------------------Limited Government Republics-No Government Anarchy-RIGHT>
It's the level of intrusiveness and willingness/ability to use force against the citizen that defines LEFT (Absolute Government Control/No Individual Freedoms) from the RIGHT (Bare minimum Government to produce a stable society and MAXIMUM individual freedoms)
Can you name one, just one, communist country that is not also a nationalist country?
Individualism vs Collectivism.
The debate continues.
There must be a balance between the two... We'll have to keep on looking.
A retarded debate. Individual rights only survive in a collective: being a citizen of a nation is being part of a collective.
Kali Yuga I dont think that is what he means by collectivism lol.
Kali Yuga lynchings may prove you wrong
I prefer the chaos vs tyranny debate myself.
Fascism as we've seen it isn't a left-wing ideology.
What makes it an innately leftist ideology?
There are 14 Characteristics of Fascism.
1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of “need.” The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, and long incarcerations of prisoners.
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists…
5. Supremacy of the Military
Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
5. Rampant Sexism
The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and anti-gay legislation.
6. Controlled Mass Media
Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation or by sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Government censorship and secrecy, especially in war time, are very common.
7. Obsession with National Security
Fear of hostile foreign powers is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined
Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government’s policies or actions.
9. Protection of Corporate Power
The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
10. Suppression of Labor Power
Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed .
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.
12, Obsession with Crime and Punishment
Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
14. Fraudulent Elections
Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.
@Murray Wilson : These have very little to do with fa scis m, and very much to do with every dic tat ori al country in existence. These "characteristics" are the zod iac signs of poli tics.
@@_Historia.Magistra.Vitae. Again you show your idiocy. Yes, these very much are characteristics of Fascism. They are NOT "the zod iac signs of poli tics"!
While many of these points are indeed aligned with dictators, one of the defining characteristics of Fascism is that they are headed by an all powerful dictator, therefore many of the characteristics of fascism are also characteristics of dictators. However, not all dictators are Fascists, some are Monarchs or fall elsewhere politically.
@@Naris48 : Again, they have very little to do with fascism. If you want to know about the characteristics of fascism instead of generic characteristics of dictatorship, I highly suggest you go and read some proper history, starting from "the doctrine of fascism" by Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile. Fascism didn't even have a dictator. Mussolini was a Prime Minister, subservient to the King of Italy.
@@_Historia.Magistra.Vitae. Yes, they have EVERYTHIGN to do with Fascism! Why do you insist on denying reality? Mussolini was indeed a dictator, he claimed as much in 1925 when he seized power. Adolf Hitler was another Fascist dictator. The King of Italy became a figurehead after Mussolini's seized power, although the King was effectively reinstated when Mussolini was ousted in 1943 since the war was going very badly for Italy.
I suggest you read Umberto Eco and Lawrence Britt so you can get a clue.
@@Naris48 : Again, the reality is that those "characteristics" are describing generic dictatorship and could be applied to countries such as Venezuela, Cuba, China, North Korea, USSR and many others which have nothing to do with fas cis m whatsoever. By the definition of the word, Mussolini was not a proper dictator since he did not have all the power in Italy, unlike Hit ler had in Germany. Also Hit ler was not a fa sci st, he was a nati onal soc iali st. When it comes to Umberto Eco, he is as useless as your posted vague characteristics list.
Economically left, socially right.
The exact opposite of a right wing libertarian.
Socially left.
Economically right and socially reactionary (far right)
@@yukoncornileus4 what makes you think fascism is socially left? Do you know what “socially left” even means
@@soraparent1256 Wrong the Nazis were socialist. Socialism is economically left while capitalism is economically right. You must be very stupid.
Fascism in the USA and the UK has its roots in The Fabian Society. The Fascists were Keynesian Socialists. That includes Hitler, Mussolini, Mosely and FDR.
FDR wasn’t a fascist you goddamn moron
Quote "Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/) is a form of radical right-wing, authoritarianultranationalism[1][2][3][4] characterized by dictatorial power, [...]"
@Rick O'Shay en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
Or of you don't trust me just google fascism and click on the first link(wikipedia)
Which controls the political and economic ways of life
@@TorricRoma
www.lexico.com/en/definition/fascism
How is it right wing? Legitimate question
Wheelspin Productions
Nationalism.
Militarism.
Privatization of state industries.
*Literally called a right wing ideology in the DOF.*
“Fascism is therefore opposed to socialism” (shortened the quote, but the point remains the same in the DOF.)
Night of the Long Knives
Ideology was supported by the rich, who also benefited under fascism.
If you search up any info about Nazi economics, you will find a lot of mentions of privatization.
1:46 Notice how Gentile says "willingly subordinate themselves to the state." Of course what if your unwilling? Oh trust me your going to be "willing."
Yes Propaganda works - We all support Capitalist State Control in the USA today !
Greedy Corporate funded & regulated Media & Corporate Surveillance !
& we think it`s Freedom ! LOL : )
@@DANCEGARAGEPUNK Right so 100 million dead bodies, directly caused by Socialism, is "Capitalist propaganda" ?
Well I suppose it is, if you're a Socialist pychoapth.
Gabriell D'Annunzio was the founder of the ideology though...
Also, I'd love a citation for Marx being a philosophical mentor to the creator, since Facism was supposed to eliminated the problems of Capitalist and Marxist systems, both equally critically.
Gentile was a Hegelian idealist, so from a philosophical standpoint he was exactly in the antipodes of Marx.
No, Gabriell D'Annuzio had many aesthetic and tactical fore-running traits of a fascist politician, but he did not codify the ideology.
This video is appallingly misleading. It doesn't matter if you consider yourself leftist or a right winged, don't get your information/education from here and by here I mean PragerU.
yes. Also they brought on the fraud guy who committed felony campaign finance violations and committed fraud.
PragerU is litteraly propaganda
@@tevzcrnic4456 yeah...it's colorful videos filled with appealing conservative talking points without evidence that attract a new, younger generation of conservatives who get indoctrinated with this awful dogma of "the left is always bad and they're feminazis all of them don't listen to them own with facts and logic" so anything we say goes in one ear and out the other.
@@vanad1um665 absolutely true
I admit that it is propaganda, however, in no case do I think it is misleading because they are precise in defining that fascism is a model of government to which the people subordinate themselves to serve the interest of a few who rules giving up individual interests and liberties for the good of such nation
The misunderstanding here is oversimplification of the left-right dichotomy. In truth, fascism is economically neutral- left leaning. It is true that Germany’s economy was controlled by the government to a fairly profound extent, but this was more about Hitler’s specific implementation. In truth Fascism doesn’t describe the economic axis. Instead it is highly authoritarian and VERY culturally right.
Right-wingers see fascism as left bc they purely focus on economics.
Left-wingers see fascism is right because the primary ideological backing of fascism is hyper nationalism and extreme cultural regression. Both the nazis and the Italian fascist sought a return to their great empires (the German Empire and Rome). Obviously the left favors change and the cultural dimension whereas the right favors tradition. This is why fascism is primarily right wing. Leftist (often in exaggeration) call the right fascist because the right seeks cultural regression. In America this manifests as policy against immigration, anti-lgbtq, and more emphasis on religion and family units.
Last I checked, murdering people (countrymen as well) because they aren't "profitable" isn't exactly "economically neutral-left leaning". In fascism, it's considered "social" to jump off a bridge if you can't contribute to the nation. What? You don't want to jump? Well, then they'll push you, because that's what anti-social parasites deserve!
@@falseflag4381,
Sounds like something never happened in Fascist Italy.
@@falseflag4381 Sounds like the left right now.
Right= less government interference
Left= more government interference
It's pretty simple people. It has nothing to do with currency
@@Bender-B-Rodriguez
You obviously have never heard of the french anarchist syndicates movements if you think “left = government interference”.
And the literal term “left” comes from the side of the room people sat on in France when supporting or opposing having a monarchy.
And the left were the side of abolishing it. Unsure how that translates to “more government interference”, but sure.
Which is why the left-right divide is less about government interference, and more about hierarchy. If you want to be reductive in the divide, the following better expains it.
The left believes that almost all forms of hierarchy are unjust and therefore are to be abolished. We try to spread as much power across as many people as possible, trying to flatten the hierarchy pyramid as flat as possible.
The right believes that hierarchy is normal and just the right people need to be on top. It's about getting the power to the right people, either through birthright, hard work or genetic talent.
That's being extremely reductive, but way more accurate than your take.
As a Fascist, I'd say we are neither right nor left, but instead take the best from both sides of the spectrum to totally reinvent society. We see it as a third option to the classical struggle of Capitalism vs. Marxism, both of which we detest. If anything, its a centrist position, a radical centrist position.
Non, centrist is the worst and most alt-right european parties are very liberal.
Capitalism is fascism.
Yep, third position. Fascism didn't cease to exist in 1945. Nasser in Egypt was in a fascist party, had a 'green shirts' movement based on the German brown shirts and had multiple SS officers as advisors. Then there's the Justicialism of Juan Perón who explicitly based Argentina on Italian fascism. Ba'athism in Iraq & Syria were heavily influenced by both Italian fascism and German national socialism, and even today the S.S.N.P in Syria and Lebanon have 120,000 active members. In the US, Huey Long is probably the closest thing
National SOCIALISM is right wing.
@Stephen Vojta national socialism are left only in the name not actions
@Stephen Vojta no because Bernie Sanders is not a National Socialist... He is a social Democrat if you look at his policies
Read Mein Kampf, Adolf's autobiography for yourself and discover how far to the left Hitler was on his political ideologies. In multiple chapters, Hitler writes about his hatred and loathing of capitalism, private property and "profiteering". One of Hitler's goals was to universally outlaw private property. He exalts the state over the individual and believes all financial activities of corporations should be regulated and controlled by the state --- a goal which he achieved during his tenure as "Der Furhrer", NAZI leader of Germany. NOT very "rightwing" or conservative, I would say. In fact, the modern American Democratic Party and its persistent desire to control and regulate business and industry appears to be just as fascistic and totalitarian as some of the infamous extremist European political regimes of the not so distant past.
So your saying ultra nationalism is normal left hmm seems legit
@Fascism Is Honest Socialism fascism doesn’t incorporate economic leftism. In fascist Italy, profit shares for industrialists and land owners massively increased, and the fascists were backed by capitalists like the perrone brothers.
@Fascism Is Honest Socialism The Fascist Manifesto was rejected by Mussolini and Gentile, and the guy who wrote it was opposed to Mussolini and Gentile. The Doctrine of Fascism, on the other hand, shows the anti-socialist, anti-syndicalist, and anti-marxist nature of fascism.
@Fascism Is Honest Socialism the fascist manifesto was written by Filippo Marinetti who was a philosopher of futurism and deemed Mussolini and Gentiles’ fascism “reactionary” (which it was) and left the fascist party Congress in 1920. And for doctrine of fascism quotes:
“No individuals or groups (political parties, cultural associations, economic unions, social classes) outside the State. Fascism is therefore opposed to Socialism to which unity within the State (which amalgamates classes into a single economic and ethical reality) is unknown, and which sees in history nothing but the class struggle. Fascism is likewise opposed to trade unionism as a class weapon.”
“Such a conception of life makes Fascism the resolute negation of the doctrine underlying so-called scientific and Marxian socialism, the doctrine of historic materialism which would explain the history of mankind in terms of the class struggle and by changes in the processes and instruments of production, to the exclusion of all else.”
And fascism in Italy was backed by capitalists like the perrone brothers and the fascist policies were capitalist in nature. They privatized railways, ended state monopolies, privatized state telephones, privatized insurance companies, and the profit shares for industrialists massively increased
@Fascism Is Honest Socialism and the link for the privatization of major industries in fascist Italy can’t be typed in a comment section but it’s called “THE FIRST PRIVATIZATION: SELLING SOEs AND PRIVATIZING PUBLIC MONOPOLIES IN FASCIST ITALY (1922-1925)”
@Fascism Is Honest Socialism nationalist socialism is opposed to Marxist globalist socialism, but fascism isn’t nationalist socialism, Gentile and Mussolini specifically said “fascism is opposed to socialism” and capitalism isn’t fascism but fascist economics have historically been capitalist. Laissez-Faire Capitalism isn’t all capitalism, it’s just one form of capitalism that the fascists rejected. Fascist economics combined Keynesianism-capitalism and corporatism-capitalism
Oh my god did nobody research this
Just because you're authoritarian doesn't mean you're fascist
Fascism is culturally right as opposed to communism which is culturally left
But they are both authoritarian and statist
Socialism is on the economic side. Fascism can be both economically left aka socialist or economically right aka capitalist.
Either way that doesn't change that facism is a far right ideology
If you don't believe me, check Wikipedia
@Ludovico CRM114 check the sources Wikipedia cites
Wikipedia isn't my source. I'm pointing to it as an example if you don't want to listen to me.
The fact that political ideologies are a little more complicated than just left or right should make sense.
Just look at the Australian liberals. They are what you would think as right leaning.
Or the Canadian nationalists who are very left leaning
Political ideologies are complicated and have different policies
Just because one is economically left doesn't mean they are culturally left too
No this isn't some leftist propoganda shit
I personally dislike liberals
This is pretty common sense
Imagine an authoritarian regime that is socialist in that it provides healthcare and the such but is culturally alt right, believing in the "pure" race and thus only gives benefits to them whilst killing other groups.
Or imagine a regime where the government interferes as less as possible and is as small as possible and is therefore anarchistic but the regime also restricts abortion and gay rights and is therefore culturally right but the regime also gives healthcare to its people and is thus economically left
Indeed. Wikipedia is the ultimate arbiter of truth!!!
Wikipedia vs Professor, who should I trust? No clue... oh wait, the one that doesn't have the feature of "anyone can edit the articles"
Wikipedia is owned by leftists, that distort knowledge... disgusting NPC.
@@1estel1ch.42 Honestly I would take both with a grain of salt and do my own research. The good professor does bring up valid points that can put to the test. I would imagine that the same could be true for the wiki in this case.
No fascists are not capitalists nor socialists
They are corporatist which are third position Mussolini said “Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power”
That's not a real quote
@@heisvi9317 Discard the point with "That's not a real quote."
@@abeIincoIn It's not wrong, but I still hate it when people use that "quote". Anyone using it should also clarify that a corporation under Corporatism is a guild-like entity and not a private company
Wikipedia has a 3000 word article on Giovanni Gentile. Not once was the word "socialist" or "socialism" or "Marxism" mentioned in that article. Yeah... he was swept under the carpet.
@Albert Rodríguez Reading books is good. Done that. I also have 20 years experience in living in a socialist country. I've learned that all forms of socialism (including Gentiles' ideology) together with Islam belong to a so called supremacist religious and quasi religious (dogma based) belief systems. They all posit that the practitioner of these systems are (1) higher value human beings than those who are different (2) extermination of those who are different is a duty of practitioners (3) collateral killing of innocent people is acceptable even if they are fellow practitioners (4) complete absolution will be give to practitioners for any and all acts (no matter how vile they may be) in order to achieve victory for his ideology. Yeah.. filth comes in many forms and in different wrappings, but they all stink.
Bingbangboom - your fault for only using Wikipedia. The word definition must be wrong if it’s not what the text says on Dictionary.com
Look Fascism is not far-left. A common misconception about conservatives is that they stand for small-government. When it actually is the libertarians that prefer small government, and libertarians can be left-leaning or right-leaning. Conservative values are more about tradition, organization, and property rights. This is why we tend to see far-right parties have strong religious values and a strong sense of nationalism. The small government argument is not accurate on this scale.
@@timron9521 Supremacy is a far-left characteristic. Today's Iran, China, North-Korea, Cuba are examples of this. Supremacy makes any and all ideology automatically inhuman and a danger to humanity. Fascism came out of the same intellectual cradle, where socialism came from and it shares the single most important characteristic with it "Supremacism". Yes, Fascism is far-left.
Bingbangboom supremacy is not a left-wing characteristic. As I have stated before nationalism is a right-wing value. Nationalism is fine until it gets too extreme, where it tends to move into beliefs of supremacy. The nations you listed are mainly authoritarian. Authoritarianism is not defined to any political side as it can be shown on both. Think of it more as a vertical scale: authoritarian on top and libertarian on the bottom. Both sides can lean left or right. Fascism was created as a movement against socialism, which was failing economically for Europe at the time. Nazis were known for killing socialists/marxists in their camps. Religion can also be another perspective: Hitler (Catholic) was building more of a religious state as he killed Jewish people, while Stalin developed a much more secular state. Besides right-wing and left-wing are total failures and we should never get close to them again.
"Fascism is a left wing ideology"
me: *sigh* 😔🔫
Did you bother to watch the video? It’s ideology isn’t conservative.
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@@bulldogsbob Fascist and Nazi ideology is much more conservative than it is liberal. The video is BS.
@Jake Shattuck
>we educated larp
>le npc maymay
>u just unediducited
*sigh* its all just so tiresome
www.bitchute.com/channel/65ztOo4t23NB/
Jerry Mason It’s not conservative. We’re not conserving anything we are going on the attack.
Here's the right answer. Both the right and left could be fascist. Fascism is a third party there has been Fascism on both the right and left in history before. Of course Mussolini was a Fascist and yes he was right wing. But at the same time Hitler was also a Fascist and he was left wing. To call the right or left Fascist is just incorrect and lazy.
Hilter was a socialist that supported socialized medicine and single payer heath care. Sure he had some views on the right but he has quite a few that are also on the left
Communism, socialism, Marxism, anarchism, are all domain of the left, which is vehemently anti-capitalist. Centralism includes everything from social democracy to classical liberalism, and the right includes everything from neoliberalism to fascism and nazism (which is the teutonic twin of far-right fascism).
Nuclear Armament
Are you going to be one of those guys who just posts the exact same message on every single comment that has more than one reply? At least make an _attempt_ at tailoring the comment to the conversation you lazy dweeb.
Fascism CAN’T be right, since the most fundamental aspect of right wing politics is small government. If you’re a fascist, you place the state above the individual, and you are therefore not on the right.
Jinx Voth I don't think a military dictatorship counts as less government.
Its right wing. Just asking this stupid question is a form of fascist proganda meant to confuse people who don't know better. Stalin and Mao may have been authoritarian, but they were not fascist.
@I.E Klewos no it's not. Its right wing opinion because it's trying to muddy the definition of fascism, which is a conservative, pro capitalist, movement. It is not left wing and it is not socialist, no matter how many times you yell national socialist. Hitler had all the a actual socialist nazis killed on the night of long knives, then out lawed trade unions, and arrested members of the actual socialist party. It's why Henry Ford and other rich Americans supported Hitler.
@I.E Klewos so none of that is socialism. That's just capitalism with a smiley face. Also
>The breaking up of unions and arresting their leaders
>Giving out government contracts to private companies to build and run the concentration camps as for profit ventures, which included slave labor.
>Arresting and murdering actual socialists and communists
>Privitizing huge chunks of the German government, infact privatization was first used to describe Hitler's economic policy
>Claming socialism to be a Jewish plot to destroy Germany
>And finally invading the soviet union because again Hitler thought it was a Jewish plot to destroy Germany
Fascism is right wing, get over it.
Quotes by Mussolini, many after he became a Fascist.................
"Marx was the greatest of all theorists of socialism."
"Socialism has to remain a terrifying and a majestic thing. If we follow this line, we shall be able to face our enemies."
"The law of socialism is that of the desert: a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye. Socialism is a rude and bitter truth, which was born in the conflict of opposing forces and in violence. Socialism is war, and woe to those who are cowardly in war. They will be defeated."
"The root of our psychological weakness was this: We socialists have never examined the problems of nations. The International was never concerned with it. The International is dead, paralyzed by events. Ten million proletarians are today on the battlefield."
"You cannot get rid of me because I am and always will be a socialist. You hate me because you still love me."
"Do not believe, even for a moment, that by stripping me of my membership card you do the same to my Socialist beliefs, nor that you would restrain me of continuing to work in favor of Socialism and of the Revolution"
"Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron. There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities."
"I know the Communists. I know them because some of them are my children"
"I shall defend this pact with all my strength, and if Fascism does not follow me in collaboration with the Socialists, at least no one can force me to follow Fascism."
"Standing by me and helping my work as newspaper man were the Fascisti. They were composed of revolutionary spirits who believed in intervention. They were youths-the students of the universities, the socialist syndicalists-destroying faith in Karl Marx by their ideals."
"It was inevitable that I should become a Socialist ultra, a Blanquist, indeed a communist. I carried about a medallion with Marx’s head on it in my pocket. I think I regarded it as a sort of talisman. Marx had a profound critical intelligence and was in some sense even a prophet."
"I never felt that there was any conflict between my military duties and my Socialism. Why should not a good soldier be also a fighter in the class war?"
"Italy is not a capitalist country according to the meaning now conventionally assigned to that term."
"Three-fourths of the Italian economy, industrial and agricultural, is in the hands of the state. And if I dare to introduce to Italy state capitalism or state socialism, which is the reverse side of the medal, I will have the necessary subjective and objective conditions to do it."
"It is no longer an economy aiming at individual profit, but economy concerned with collective interest."
"When the war is over, in the world's social revolution that will be followed by a more equitable distribution of the earth's riches, due account must be kept of the sacrifices and of the discipline maintained by the Italian workers. The Fascist revolution will make another decisive step to shorten social distances."
"Some still ask of us: what do you want? We answer with three words that summon up our entire program. Here they are…Italy, Republic, Socialization. . .Socialization is no other than the implantation of Italian Socialism"
"For this I have been and am a socialist. The accusation of inconsistency has no foundation. My conduct has always been straight in the sense of looking at the substance of things and not to the form. I adapted socialisticamente to reality. As the evolution of society belied many of the prophecies of Marx, the true socialism folded from possible to probable. The only feasible socialism socialisticamente is corporatism, confluence, balance and justice interests compared to the collective interest."
"I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts."
Quotes about Mussolini............
"What a man! I have lost my heart!... Fascism has rendered a service to the entire world... If I were Italian, I am sure I would have been with you entirely from the beginning of your victorious struggle against the bestial appetites and passion of Leninism."
Winston Churchill
"Mussolini's care of the poor, his opposition to super-urbanization, his efforts to bring about coordination between capital and labor, seem to me to demand special attention. My own fundamental objection is that these reforms are compulsory. But it is the same in all democratic institutions. What strikes me is that behind Mussolini's implacability is a desire to serve his people. Even behind his emphatic speeches there is a nucleus of sincerity and of passionate love for his people. It seems to me that the majority of the Italian people love the iron government of Mussolini.
He is the great statesmen of our time.”
Gandhi
"Long live Mussolini! Long live socialism!"
(Last words of Italian communist party leader Nicola Bombacci)
"A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve."
G. K. Chesterton
"The greatest genius of the modern age."
Thomas Edison
"To Benito Mussolini, from an old man who greets in the ruler, the Hero of Culture."
Sigmund Freud
"Unfortunately, I am no superman like Mussolini."
Gandhi
"What a waste that we lost Mussolini. He is a first-rate man who would have led our party to power in Italy."
Vladimir Lenin
"Mussolini was the only one among you with the mind and temperament to make a revolution. Why did you allow him to leave?"
Vladimir Lenin
"In Italy, comrades, in Italy there was but a Socialist able enough to lead the people through a revolutionary path, Benito Mussolini."
Vladimir Lenin
"Mussolini was the greatest man of our century, but he committed certain disastrous errors. I, who have the advantage of his precedent before me, shall follow in his footsteps but also avoid his errors."
Juan Perón
"There seems to be no question that Mussolini is really interested in what we are doing and I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"I don't mind telling you in confidence that I am keeping in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Some of the things Mussolini has done, and some that he is threatening to do go further in the direction of Socialism than the Labour Party could yet venture if they were in power."
George Bernard Shaw
"Mussolini was farther to the Left in his political opinions than any of his socialist rivals."
George Bernard Shaw
"Mussolin is a man no less extraordinary than Lenin. He, too, is a political genius, of a greater reach than all the statesmen of the day, with the only exception of Lenin.
Georges Sorel
"Mussolini was the only man who could have brought about the revolution of the proletariat in Italy."
Leon Trotsky
who in their right mind would want big government? that's like always having your boss breathing down your neck 24/7 screaming at you and nit picking for every little thing.
This fool doesn't know what people would give to feel secure.
Having the government provide the people services doesn’t make it a dictatorship.
Do note, the countries with the biggest welfare programs (Mostly in Europe) have the highest scores of Democracy in the world too. (I wonder why?)
Also Joe Biden is far from a socialist considering he’s done many things that piss off progressives.
Also like how you compare Stalin with Biden when they have almost nothing in common. And if your comparing Biden with Stalin than it’s justified to compare Trump with Hitler.
@@PremierCCGuyMMXVI what are you on about? are you high or something?
@@aldrinferrer1813 how?
I was taking to the comment above. No big government isn’t always bad. And their username is wrong.
@@PremierCCGuyMMXVI ohhhh didn't notice it when i commented months ago, he maybe changed his name.
This aged like fine wine in 2020
No it didn't. This guy is an idiot
And again in 2022😂😂
@@barcodeaccount9615 and 2023, trump being indicted
@@amirkiller008that’s not fascism
@@amirkiller008 Man someone really doesn't like someone because of some tax stuff.
Fascism’s ideologies are always encumbered by ideals of nationalism and “our group is the best group”. This is by far a right wing ideology. When the left wing ideologies of socialism and communism literally in the name and definition is about everyone of the working force being equal and pursuing democracy then it’s impossible to label fascism as a left wing ideology. Also if anyone actually believes hitler and the Nazis were socialists then you really need to touch up on your historic knowledge. The socialists and communists were the FIRST people hitler went after. Not only that but there was private organization in Germany and anything “social” was only for the white Germans. It wasn’t inclusive, again it was fascist.
Aren’t fascism and communism ideological opposites?
@@ottovonbass-mark5424 they are in a sense the issue really is that words like fascism can describe more then just economic model but also what are typical fascist characteristics. So for instance I would say most governments show characteristics of fascism but aren’t necessarily fascist. The USSR could be called fascist for many of the things they did.
@@florida12341000 thanks, that really helped. I was watching this video for the laughs, not to “educate” myself
The shiite's and sunni's have been going after each other for centuries, that doesn't mean that aren't both Muslims. Factions of the same ideologies have taken each other out all the time throughout human history. I don't where this idea came from that two groups fighting must have diametrically opposed belief systems.
Your literal first section just described China and Soviet Russia. So those were far right to you? You know nothing of history. Both communism and fascism were born from socialism. Every criteria you used to define fascism as right wing is equal applicable to the communist nations. What, you don't know of the communist purges and ethnic cleansings?
Regarding "They were socialists," let me answer your objections. First, you said that unlike Hitler "socialists are concerned with reducing inequalities". However, you also said "[Hitler] tried to appeal...campaigning with promises about everything [e.g. socialism]." What you are missing is this same sloganeering dynamic applies to socialists - they will say things like "equity" or "reduce inequality", when in fact those slogans have little bearing on what they are actually seeking to achieve. Indeed, socialists most certainly create vast inequalities. Thus George Orwell's sentiment that socialists don't love the poor, rather they just hate the rich...even after the socialist leaders become rich. As such, like "socialist" Hitler, socialists in general are ALSO famous for not sticking with their alleged principles and stated claims. In effect, you are giving a "pass" on general socialist slogans that you aren't giving to Nazis. I'm reminded of the mantra "the Soviet Union wasn't true socialism/Marxism." The apologists of socialism will never allow that a "true" socialism ever existed, and de-railing Nazism from the word "socialist" is part of such apologetics (no, I am not calling you an apologist of socialism - just noting there are other forces at work on these modes of terminology). Conversely, I'll also note that the Soviet Union was becoming increasingly, explicitly nationalistic in the 1930's and onward (even referencing its Russian-self as "the Motherland") - and yet nobody bothers to call them fascists. Nor is that designation given to North Korea, or Iran...despite their nationalistic posture.
Second, yes Hitler privatized a number of public companies. However, (1) he would seize those companies instantly and gift them to others, if there was non-compliance with his wishes. Thus it was effectively fake privatization. Furthermore (2) all private housing was declared public. Ending the era of private homes/housing allowed warrantless searching of homes for Jews. This public housing model significantly trumps the company privatization exercise.
One last point. Fascism was created by Giovanni Gentile, who designated fascism as a special type of socialism. To Gentile, fascists are socialists with a national identity. It is interesting that it is hard to find socialists who DO NOT have a nationalistic identity. This is because, in general, socialists need the power of the state to enforce their ideology and its claims of having the moral high-ground. Consider BLM and LGBTQ+...both of which have flags, and those flags have been flown over official U.S. government offices of state (such as at embassies). The ethos of BLM is simply black nationalism and LGBTQ+ is simply queer nationalism. Both either (1) seek the power of the state to enforce their ideologies or (2) seek to destroy the state (Post-modernism versus the U.S. and its liberal democracy) and replace it with a new nation. In all these cases (Russia, North Korea, LGBTQ+, etc.) nobody refers to them as "fascists"...even despite having black-clad Antifa (with their own nationalistic flag) as the new version of brown-shirts, protecting drag-queen shows delivered to children. In short, (1) either "fascist" will be applied only to the Axis powers as a means of controlling perceptions about socialism or (2) its application needs to be expanded and thus applied "evenly" to: Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, North Korea, BLM, LGBTQ+, etc. I think the best option is simply to recognize that just as we don't need distinctions between "socialist" and "Socialist", or "capitalist" and "Capitalist", or "communist" or "Communist"...likewise we don't need a distinction between "fascist" and "Fascist". As I see it, those people and movements that designate themselves as "socialist" (Russia, Nazi Germany, BLM)...should simply be given the label they asked for. It's like respecting somebody's preferred pronouns. ;)
@n66 _"I like that rig ht-wing ers will twist logic in knots to convince themselves that fa scis m was so ciali sm to make a political point"_
You do realize that both Mu ssoli ni and the philosopher behind the whole ideology, were so ciali sts right? Not only that, but it is explicitly stated by Gio vanni Gentile that fas cism is a form of soc ialis m and both Gentile and Mussolini were strictly against cap italism. Both advocated for state control over the mea ns of produ ction, which is a form of soc ialism.
@n66 _"The truth of the matter is fascism benefited large industry and wealthy land owners and crushed the power of the work ing class and workers."_
What "large industry" and "land owners" exactly? Muss olini Nationalized 75% of the It alian Econ omy.
When it comes to the power of the working class, Musso lini just imitated Le nin and did pretty much exactly what he did prior Mus solini.
I wonder if Google sent Prager U one of those gold TH-cam Play Arrow plaques to congratulate them on reaching a million subs.
I think you have to order one...
Play arrow? It's the Golden Play Button.
We're all in this together
Once we know
That we are
We're all stars
And we see that
@@ato2295 ?
chawn2112 he didn’t get it 😂😂😂 but I did lol thanks for the laugh
It's the - C O L L E C T I V I S M...
Travis Bickle2.0 that's an Economy Ideology.
Aman Preet Wich is main feature of left
nooooo
Jeopardy had fascism coming from the right. I strongly disagreed.
Wow. Incredible video. Thank you!
You should see the rebuttal video. D’Souza - as always - is talking out his ass.
I think the main problem arising in the comment section is that people are discussing about the "political left/right" without having defined EXACTLY how the political left/right are defined (and I'm not talking about extremism).
Well, left wing's been defined by social equality and right wing by social hierarchy since the era of the French Revolution when those in the left wing of the National Assembly were in favour of revolution and justice for the people of the third estate while those in the right wing opposed the revolution and wanted to conserve the monarchy. Fascism's sort of the benchmark to which social hierarchy and inequality are measured. To claim that it isn't far-right would be blotting out reality.
@@CulturalMarxist4985 Incorrect. You clearly didn't watch the video and know nothing of history. Or current events. Look up Venezuela.
@@rdr6269 What are you talking about? I was just explaining what the terms, left wing and right wing mean. Nothing to do with Venezuela.
@@CulturalMarxist4985 Liar! THIS is what I'm talking about:
"Fascism's sort of the benchmark to which social hierarchy and inequality are measured. To claim that it isn't far-right would be blotting out reality."
The reality is that fascism is found in every Marxist regime from its inception to the present day!
@@rdr6269 Even if that were true, it wouldn't change the fact that fascism's firmly right wing.
PragerU: Is Fascism Left or Right?
Me: *Yes*
Me: Is PragerU Fascist?
PragerU: Yes.
left.....
It’s neither, it’s not bound to a spectrum. All instances of fascism in history have been right wing, but it’s not bound to the right wing, it could also be left wing.
Did you watch the vid ?
@@redgreen4449 vid is wrong
Man I love going back & watching these old Prager U 5min videos. Some are 5 to 7 yrs old. And I love watching them just as much as I did when I 1st discovered Prager U. Thank you everyone at Prager U for all the years & many more to come. 🇺🇸
I'm not religious so I don't listen to their religious stuff, but on economic, social and matters of freedom, these guys nail it.
interestingly enough, they even state fascists are capitalists at 4:28. apparently capitalism is left wing now
@@regisglass5464 Of course Capitalism is Left Wing according to the people who live in Socialist Clown World. This is because Socialism is 100% catastrophic, all you dimwits can do is confuse Capitalism with Socialism and try to take the credit for the enormous wealth Capitalism has produced. 😂
@@willnitschke while i understand your view that PragerU lives in clown world, i assure you they are not socialists even if they seem to imply capitalism is left wing at 4:28
@@regisglass5464 Child, you're confusing me with your parents. Nobody except them is going to waste their time doing what you demand. If you have some retarded comment to make, just make it. So I can fun of you all over again.
Wtf I love the left now
Lol
When I saw the two signs “Liberty” and “Equality”, I felt very tempted to shout out, “Fraternity!” because I’m like that.
@Dubbing Flight, I'm that kind of person too. 🤣
Liberté égalité fraternité, viva France viva la république! I
I see you are a man or a woman of culture
Shut up French revolutionary liberal
Fascism is clearly left. Giovanni Gentile, the father of Fascism, was Marx's student. Gentile based fascism largely on marxist thinking. When compared to communism, there is a huge overlap on tactics and goals. The difference is globalist vs nationalist marxism. Communists/socialists are globalist, fascists are nationalist.
@ba1 you clearly didn't pay attention to the narrator of the video. Fascism has nothing to do with the political right
@ba1 _"No , fasci sm is an ideology of hierarchy , social Darwinism , patriarchy , nationalism , etc. , it's clearly rig ht-wi ng. "_
Wrong. Fasci sm was a totalita rian f ar-le ft, socia list ideology based on natio nal syndica lism. It was rig ht from mar xism, not rig ht-wi ng by any means. Also none of those things you mention have a political alignment by default. They can be used by either side.
@ba1 _"and started as a reactionary force to resist the rise of soci alism in Italy"_
Wrong. Fasci sm never resisted social ism. They never had problems with it. It was a revolutionary movement, and opposed mar xism specifically, not socia lism in general.
@ba1 _"Fasc ism crushed the soci alist uprising "_
Mar xist uprising, not soci alist.
No, left wing thought is based upon equality while right wing thought is based upon hierarchy. To assume fascism is left wing would be to imply Hitler saw the Jews as equal to aryans.
I can't believe as a socailist I have to defend Fascism but let's get this going. First no, Fascism is neither left nor right, it is something called "the third position" (meaning it has roots from both sides and can't be pined on a 2d platform), secondly Giovanni Gentile believed that the F word was a modern form of what Plato believed in. Secondly, no National Socialism (Nazism) is not a form of fascism as it is a more race based platform, while fascism is not based in race rather in nationality, as well as it being thought up by Anton Drexler, who was the creator of the German Workers Party. While Gentile never himself created a party though he wrote part of Benito Mussolini's book the "fascist Manifesto". Also, no the modern left is not fascist due to both fascism and national Socialism denouncing it in one way or another, and I'm pretty sure Joe Biden doesn't plan on becoming Il Duce of the united states. Secondly, Fascism is a very religious based ideology, for the best example look at falangism witch is a extreme form of Catholic fascism that ruled of Spain from 1939 to Fransico Franco's death in the 1970's (Can't remember if it was in the 70's exactly, sorry if I'm wrong.), also most fascist countries would be considered a "mixed economy" somewhat close to what we have here within the us but with maybe a bit more government control. Now if you would like to learn more about these things, you can easily find it online or look through what the actual people believed in, like Mussolini, Hitler, and Franco.
Now thank you for coming to my ted talk.
PS: The edit was due to youtube not allowing me to say f a s c i s m, also this isn't meant as a defense of me saying it's a good ideology, just trying to point out what the people actually believed in.
@Humanity Galatica Yea, what I meant was more of it can be religious like in Spain under Franco. Though Hitler still towards the german people still tried to act somewhat pro christian which is why he made "Positive Christianity" which was Christianity but Jesus wasn't Jewish and he was from Ukraine, as well as he refused to leave the catholic church so he wouldn't cause any dissent.
Surprisingly well informed. I'd have a few minor critiques though, Fascism can be secular, or religious, it depends on the country. Romanian legionarism & Spanish falangism being Christian where are Germany, Italy etc were secular.
Fascists also don't consider Franco to be a Fascist, but a reactionary conservative larping as a syndicalist. In Falangism, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Onesimo Redondo and Ramiro Ledesma Ramos would be actual Falangists.
I also don't want a mixed economy under a capitalist mode of production. One misconception is that it's basically Keynesianism, this was the case due to the material conditions but a corporate structure with a syndicalist mode of production is what's generally desired.
Well informed though, who knows, maybe one day you'll switch sides :)
Fascism is a 3rd position its neither right nor left wing.
Don’t forget Hillary “stronger together.”
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>"Opposed to liberalism, democracy, Marxism, and anarchism, fascism is placed on the far right within the traditional left-right spectrum."
>Bruh moment
One only need to ask if fascists ever saw, for example, the jewish, as equal human beings to them to note why they are far right.
@Humanity Galatica apologies then why have all fascist regimes that have ever existed attempted to kill those they saw as lesser humans? Do you recall Hitler?
@@regisglass5464 Hitler wasn’t a fascist, he was a Nazi. Nazism and Fascism are two different philosophies. With that said, Mussolini wasn’t a racist. From Italy’s pre war period 1922-1940 only 9 people were executed to death, so fascists didn’t kill anyone they saw as “not human” The National Fascist Party in Italy had 10,000 Jews in it, 1/3 of Italy’s adult Jewish population, the fascist party also had Libyan and Arab members as well.
@@soraparent1256 Apologies but what did mussolini say in 1921 about fascism and "the perennial" race of aryans?
What did he say in 1920 about slavs? What did he do to them in the concentration camps?
@Humanity Galatica So conservatives are in favor of feudalism? This is news to me. I thought conservatives were opposed to feudalism as well.
I think people who did enough research on fascism know who Gentile is. Plus, Fascism aimed to stop the Inequality of Capitalism and the Class Warfare of Socialism. So therefore. It definitely isn’t a Left ideology, But im also arguing that it aint a Right ideology either.
Fascists did not aim to stop inequality at all. Inequality was attractive to Mussolini and Hitler. Why do you think they killed left wingers and had conservatives in their cabinets?
I would sometimes consider fascists, Nazis, and their ‘neo’ successors to be AuthCenter or AuthCenter-leaning, I mean no wonder why they’re sometimes referred to as “third positionists”.
The syndicalists of Edmondo Rossoni were 3 times as large as the fascist party and the founder of the communist party Nicola Bombacci was appointed economics minister
It’s way more fat to the right than capitalism
BAHAHAHAH, its a left wing idealogy. anything opposing free markets is.
This doesn't really have to do with the video but I really want to vent about this real quick. So in my honors English class (I'm a sophomore in high school) my teacher assigned us this short essay to write (at least 4 pages in length, so it is pretty short) where we have to find an opinionated current events article and write about how the author used rhetoric strategies to make his argument. From the beginning I was both looking forward to doing this assignment (because I love writing about things that I'm passionate about and I love writing in general) and dreading it because I live in the very Democratic state of New York and whenever I talk/write about something conservative in school I typically get yelled at by my peers and I get dirty looks from my teachers. It's really frustrating and I don't like to share my political views with others as a result of the treatment that I have gotten in the past for doing such and I frequently try to hide the fact that I'm a republican from a lot of my very liberal friends (which is all of my friends except for three, and I don't just not have a lot of friends, I swear). And my parents are Democrats too, but that's a whole different topic.
So back to the story; my teacher told us that we can email her potential articles if we want to get her 'okay' about them. So being the good student that I am, I started looking for articles immediately (even though I know that almost everybody in my class started their work for this assignment yesterday or today) and I sent her articles that I wanted to do. But this liberal teacher of mine kept on giving me BS excuses to not let me do any of the more right-leaning articles that I asked about doing. This was really starting to piss me off because I desperately wanted to start this essay already because I'm so busy with my other schoolwork and cheerleading, but she was significantly delaying my start. But today she finally (reluctantly) approved one of my articles (probably because the essay is due tomorrow at midnight). I just don't understand why liberals have to be so discriminatory towards conservatives. I can tell you that I never argue against liberals about politics and I completely understand and respect the other sides views. But I get treated this way by my own teacher?? It's just frustrating.
And btw, the article that I'm doing is about Google and many of their employees discriminating against conservative employees. So that's kinda related to what just happened in my life (and I can imagine that crappy grade that I'm gonna get on this essay just for that reason) and it's a really good article. Here's the link:
www.google.com/amp/www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/11/03/leak-google-employees-defend-discrimination-against-conservatives/amp/
Nice points. Unfortunately you will be tagged by TH-cam(Google) as one with conservative viewpoints and be only allowed a limited number of characters in your comments fr
...from now on just like I have been restricted to so many characters in my replies to videos because of my conservative viewpoints in my replies.
Today's liberals are fascists who oppose anyone who dares to disagree with liberal dogma. Liberalism is a religion for most liberals because they do not believe in god (read Ann Coulter's book, Godless!). If you can get a video of one of your teachers preaching liberal dogma to your class, do it and post it on TH-cam. Also, contact conservatives in the new media and tell them about your experiences with being discriminated against by your teachers. Good luck!
Brian Martin damn, I didn't even know that that's a thing. That sucks. How are they even allowed to do that?!
illegaldestroyer thank you
But right-wing ideology really isn't individualistic , it's actually hierarchist and believes people should be organized into hierarchies arranged by identity ( gender , race , wealth , etc. ). Hierarchy is an anti-individualstic structure. The right-wing is also anti-individualistic socially and they demand conformity to group norms on things like gender expression and sexual orientation , etc. This is kind of a ridiculous argument...
don't disrupt the echo chamber
Are you kidding me? That’s what the left does😂 They see the world as in identity groups. We believe in the meritocracy and that inequality is a part of human nature! Nothing to do with race!
I think you are mixing ideas. We are ALL humans social animals, doesnt matter if you are leftist or right wing. Hierarchies exist naturally and people will always organize in civil or religious institutions.
But for leftist the Government should have all the power to meddle in those hierarchies and civil or religious institutions whereas for right wing people those should be left free from the State monopoly of violence as much as possible and let people organize themselves freely.
@@jorgeenriqueecheverria5165 Your comment would be funny if it wasn't so tragic. Only brainwashed people on the right believe this stupid nonsense. The right wing is for a small government and freedom..?! yeah.. unless it's about controlling abortions, drugs, the military, police or prisons etc.. then the right can't get enough of the state, but for example when it comes to helping people with healthcare then the state is suuuper evil. Get a grip on reality.
I'm pretty sure the left is building a hierarchy based on identity politics, not the right. I'm not right or left wing, so I'm looking at this from an objective position. The left today is absolutely fascist. They advocate socialism and conformity of thought and want it enforced by the state. They want the state to force people to agree with them through threat of violence and censorship. That is fascism.
We've lived in a fascist state since the 40's.
If you are talking about the U.S., that is profoundly false. We live in a Democratic Federal Republic over a union of semi-sovereign states, with a non-centralized government consisting of three branches to redistribute power. It’s as non-totalitarian as you can get, and certainly bears no image of Italian Fascism. We are, however, legislating ourselves with more and more government intervention, mostly driven by Neo Marxist agendas (which require heavy interventionalist “big” government in order to operate).