| DevilRising said: What an incredibly dumb question to ask. And I'm sorry, the people answering "yes" are also dumb. Saying that any political philosophy short of facism is "unamerican" or "anti-american", |
Why is fascism an exception? Did people have more freedoms in the U.S.S.R, Communist China, North Korea, etc than they did in Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, or Fascist Japan? Fascism, "socialism", and communism are cut from the same cloth. All are forms of collectivism. The forfeit of one's property rights is also the forfeit of one's other rights, as he/she no longer owns himself/herself and the product of his/her time - property. To tell someone that they don't own the product of their time is no less tyrannical than to tell someone that they cannot marry whomever they wish to marry. It is equivalent, and often interconnected. One's economic freedoms affect one's social freedoms, and vice-verse.
"Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and naziism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies."
