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(06-01-2017, 08:43 AM)Rotobeast Wrote: Soooo.... what would make Libertarians closer to Facists, than Conservatives ? We want freedom and equality for everyone. We do not attempt to force religious ideals upon people, like a subsect of conservatives.

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Economic policy, primarily, (and I think someone else pointed that out) would account for placing libertarian ideology where it was on the chart in question.

(Many conservatives do not have a religious agenda, as you rightly note. Do you think most fascists advocate freedom of worship? I was not aware that religion was a major issue for US libertarians at this time - but feel free to enlighten me about how religion plays a major role in libertarian policy.)

On what key points would you differentiate libertarians from socialists? Socialists want freedom and equality for everyone.

Here is an excerpt from here (http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Fascism) about the loaded term fascism:

Definitions and scope of the word

Historians, political scientists, and other scholars have engaged in long and furious debates concerning the exact nature of fascism and its core tenets. Since the 1990s, there has been a growing move toward some rough consensus reflected in the work of Stanley Payne, Roger Eatwell, Roger Griffin, and Robert O. Paxton. According to most scholars of fascism, there are both left and right influences on fascism as a social movement, and fascism, especially once in power, has historically attacked communism, conservatism and parliamentary liberalism, attracting support primarily from the "far right" or "extreme right."[12] (See: Fascism and ideology).
Mussolini defined fascism as a collectivistic ideology in opposition to socialism, classical liberalism, democracy and individualism. He wrote in The Doctrine of Fascism:

Quote:Anti-individualistic, the fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with those of the State, which stands for the conscience and the universal will of man as a historic entity…. The fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value…. Fascism is therefore opposed to that form of democracy which equates a nation to the majority, lowering it to the level of the largest number…. We are free to believe that this is the century of authority, a century tending to the 'right', a Fascist century. If the nineteenth century was the century of the individual we are free to believe that this is the 'collective' century, and therefore the century of the State.[13]