Over last weekend there was a great deal of childish name-calling, largely by the infantile MSM, with words like ‘fascist’ and ‘nazi’ being banded about.
You would expect those who make their living from words would have some idea what those words mean, but then the schools and universities are far too busy indoctrinating to bother with such things. Especially those that academia has been trying to hide.
For example. Fascist.
Let me introduce you to Giovanni Gentile, born in Castelvetrano, Italy on the May 30th, 1875, and later described by Mussolini ‘the philosopher of Fascism’. He was also responsible for writing parts of Mussolini’s '1932 essay ‘The Doctrine of Fascism’.
Okay, so, just another ultra-far right knuckle-scraper then?
Not so.
Gentile was a student of Karl Marx but like so many others, (Trotsky, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, the Kims, Corbyn, et al) thought that there were fundamental flaws in Marxist philosophy. And like them, he thought he had a better plan.
Like most of the others, he had never actually had a real job but had plenty of good ideas about what the working classes needed. And in his opinion, what they needed was good, old-fashioned feudalism to keep them in place, but with a title including the word ‘Democratic’ or ‘Peoples’ to fool the masses into thinking this type of dictatorship was good for them.
Like all communist philosophies Gentile’s required a strong, centralised state of the type that doesn’t need elections, but rather than seeing a class struggle he saw a struggle between nations. The people needed to unify not as a class but as a nation. But socialist, in the sense of having an unelected dictator and that criticising the government or its policies will get you locked up. Sound familiar?
Incidentally, the term ‘fascist’ was derived from Latin word fasces, meaning a bundle of sticks bound together. This ancient symbol symbolises strength in numbers and often appears as an architectural motif. One example being the Sheldonian Theatre in that bastion of Marxist nincompoopery, Oxford University.
Meanwhile, back in the good old days, one Adolf Schicklgruber, now better known as Adolf Hitler was looking for a good platform to get him into power and saw the fascist system.
Benito Mussolini, a former member National Directorate of the Italian Socialist Party seemed to be making great strides with this new variation on the Marxist theme and Hitler decided that he might be able to use it. Hitler was at that time a member of the DAP, the German Workers’ Party, that some try and pretend was some right-wing group, but was in reality Marxist.
Not unnaturally, Hitler thought he could do better with the fascist creed, so he had a bit of a rewrite and sold his new version of communism to the DAP who then changed their name to the National Socialist Party. They did not call themselves the Nazi Party as ‘Nazi’ is a slang word in German meaning ‘idiot’.
Like Mussolini’s Italy, and Stalin’s Russia, Hitler’s Germany was a communist state. The state controlled all production and distribution. True, that was the case in the UK during the war, but in Italy and Germany it was the case from way before that.
So, the insults of the left are without foundation. We are not ‘fascists’ they are, supporting a system that has never been elected to power – we can argue about Spain and the Second Republic at another time – and has collapsed under every iteration of Marxism. Even China has quietly slid from being a communist dictatorship to being a semi-capitalist dictatorship much like Germany and Italy in the 1930s. It would be a funny old world if it weren’t so dangerous.
