12-21-2016, 12:41 PM
(12-21-2016, 07:48 AM)hollodero Wrote: So what is "Facism" then? Discrimination on grounds of the face?
(I swear I'll read your article and all, right now I just want to be cocky though)
It appears to depend on who you ask. For many it has become a catch all word for a person with totalitarian right wing leanings. Like many epithets it is rapidly losing any real impact as a pejorative due to rampant overuse. The article does an excellent job of defining it in terms of governance. As far as use on a personal level, I'd say it encompasses anyone who stifles dissent as a reflex and allows for no differing opinions. In reality there is little difference between fascism, as a government and what is supposed to be it's polar opposite communism as practiced in the Soviet Union. Both were autocratic, surveillance police states in which dissent was brutally suppressed.
