WHAT IS FASCISM?
I believe most people know who the founder of Marxism, the template for socialism, is.......Karl Marx. But few people know who the founder of fascism is. His name is Giovanni Gentile. He was, in the first half of the twentieth century, considered one of the leading philosophers alive. He was a widely published and widely influential thinker and also an Italian political statesman.
Gentile was a lifelong socialist. He viewed fascism as just a modified form of socialism.
Gentile went so far as to declare “Fascism is a form of socialism, in fact, it is its most viable form.” One of the most common reflections on this is that fascism is itself socialism based on national identity. Unlike Marx, he did not believe that the struggle was working class and the capitalists, but the selfish individual and one who is willing to surrender self to the society and state. He wrote, “One of the major virtues of fascism is it obliged those who watched from their windows to come down into the street.” This seems in agreement with the Antifa and other leftist groups.
Gentile urges that all citizens must submit to the authority of the state, not just in economic matters, but in all matters. The government, Gentile insists, should not only act as lawmaker, but also a teacher, using schools to promulgate its values and priorities. Gentile says, “Our work as teachers is considered to be at end when our students speak our language.” Isn’t this the plan of the Democrats for our schools today?
Gentile was a lifelong socialist. He viewed fascism as just a modified form of socialism.
Gentile went so far as to declare “Fascism is a form of socialism, in fact, it is its most viable form.” One of the most common reflections on this is that fascism is itself socialism based on national identity. Unlike Marx, he did not believe that the struggle was working class and the capitalists, but the selfish individual and one who is willing to surrender self to the society and state. He wrote, “One of the major virtues of fascism is it obliged those who watched from their windows to come down into the street.” This seems in agreement with the Antifa and other leftist groups.
Gentile urges that all citizens must submit to the authority of the state, not just in economic matters, but in all matters. The government, Gentile insists, should not only act as lawmaker, but also a teacher, using schools to promulgate its values and priorities. Gentile says, “Our work as teachers is considered to be at end when our students speak our language.” Isn’t this the plan of the Democrats for our schools today?
“All is in the state and nothing human exists or has value outside the state” is a statement written by Gentile and quoted often by Mussolini, the fascist ruler of Italy during WWII. These same sentiments are often heard by Democratic Leftists such as Gov. Cuomo (NY). When he spoke at the 1984 Democratic Convention he likened America to an extended family where, through the agency of government, we take care of each other in much the same manner that families look out for all their members. Obama, at the 2012 Democratic Convention, agreed when he said, “we belong to the government.” |
Gentile was not an evil man, he rejected anti-Semitism and argued that the state, though all-powerful, should seek to persuade citizens rather than force them. Even though he opposed the traditional internationalist Marxist left and communism, which led people to think that fascism was ultra-right, the truth is that their centralized economic policies obeyed collectivist and socialist principles, openly opposing capitalism and the free market, favoring nationalism and autarchy. |
In that sense, as established by the philosopher creator of fascist ideology, Giovanni Gentile, fascism is another form of socialism, ergo, it was not a battle of left against right, but a struggle between different left-wing ideologies, an internationalist and a nationalist one. Unfortunately, the struggle between the two leftist groups led to Gentile’s murder in 1944.
So, to believe that fascism is a right-wing ideology goes against the founder of fascism, modern politics and economics, and history. Consequently, constantly calling Trump a fascist and any and all Republicans and conservatives fascists, is just hate speech. Next month: Nazism and the Far Right |