Modern "Facism"

[hollodero]

(12-22-2016, 02:49 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Smartass.  Alright(one l), then.  Let us continue.

Alright.

(12-22-2016, 02:49 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I think hard core nationalism, as stated earlier by others, is a more necessary component.  Essentially, the autocratic, surveillance society, police state we would be the hard core of a fascist system.  In that sense it knows no ideological bounds.

Sure, nationalism and totalitarianism (and a leader figure with more or less absolute power), I guess those are pretty much undisputable conditions. The rest really is "having no other word". Fascism to me is often the absence or negation of ideologies: Anti-marxist, anti-democratic, anti-liberal... even "Anti-Hitler" in my country (before Hitler came). Hitler was sure a fascist by the definitions available, but somehow "more" than that, in that he had the Nazi ideology; so we don't use the word "fascism" for Nazi Germany as much. The time in Austria before the Anschluss, however, is called "fascism" for one man overthrew democracy and gained power, but without having really much except his own person (and some anti-stances) as an idea behind it.