tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post6288599250129036922..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: Fascism And You Know Who (YKW)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-86821978619604686782017-04-03T10:32:26.340-04:002017-04-03T10:32:26.340-04:00Another key element, following Zeev Strenhell'...Another key element, following Zeev Strenhell's work (Neither Right Nor Left, Anti-Enlightenment) is a complete and utter nihilism about the truth, an identification of truth with power, a thorough-going relativism. For Sternhell, the roots of fascism are in the Counter-Enlightenment attacks on reason. When Trump's lies are exposed, his defense is consistently: we won the election, therefore we're right - ask "The American people." Sad. Beyond Sad. Scary.kevin quinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04880872194080353414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-19174147024957707612017-04-03T03:23:44.961-04:002017-04-03T03:23:44.961-04:00Thanks, Tom. Looking at that some elements are in...Thanks, Tom. Looking at that some elements are in my description and some are not. Roughly it asserts that the individual is to be subordinated to a totalitarian State. It admires tradition and then rejects Marxism, socialism, liberalism, and parliamentary democracy. <br /><br />There is also a brief mention of guilds and the idea of "corporazione, a hint of corporatism, although that was not spelled out in the way that the Catholic Church had formulated it in the late 19th century, although one can sort of see it coming. This last one is probably the one that I should have mentioned in my list, and although YKW does not use that terminology, some of his policies may fit with it, with his personal interventions with companies very quasi-coeporatist, and nationalist corporatism also tended to be very protectionist, which YKW most certainly is as noted above. <br /><br />That pretty much covers it. Nothing about racism or infrastructure or the arts, although one can see these fixations in practice in Italy under Mussolini and Germany under Hitler.rosserjb@jmu.eduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09300046915843554101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-72145964505229970082017-04-02T18:39:02.945-04:002017-04-02T18:39:02.945-04:00Benito Mussolini assisted by Giovanni Gentile expl...Benito Mussolini assisted by Giovanni Gentile explained what Fascism is in "The Doctrine of Fascism," a short piece available in many places on the Internet like Internet Archive.Tom Hickeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08454222098667643650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-75997867586241428732017-04-02T18:09:36.952-04:002017-04-02T18:09:36.952-04:00Just to lighten things up, another quote from Barz...Just to lighten things up, another quote from Barzini, p. 337:<br /><br />"In the heart of every man, wherever he is born, whatever his education and tastes, there is one small corner which is Italian, that part which finds regimentation irksome, the dangers of war frightening, strict morality stifling, that part which loves frivolous and entertaining art, admires larger-than-life-size solitary heroes, and dreams of an impossible liberation from the strictures of a tidy existence."<br /><br />[one sentence] rosserjb@jmu.eduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09300046915843554101noreply@blogger.com