Fascism 101

When we see a parallel government taking shape, we should not refrain from calling fascism what it is.

Last night, we visited Tesla’s European HQ in Amsterdam to tell the story of how one of the world’s richest people bought the ‘digital town square’, then used it to peddle disinformation and help push Donald Trump to victory. There are many reasons why Trump won the US election. But the use of vast oligarchic wealth, like Elon Musk’s, to change our media environment is a key part of the story. Trump’s victory could add 4bn tonnes of CO2 to US emissions by 2030. Despite owning an electric car company, Musk is now a dangerous impediment to climate action.

John Kelly, the retired Marine general who was Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff, entered the 2024 fray in stunning fashion, saying the former president fits “into the general definition of fascist” and wanted the “kind of generals Hitler had” in a series of interviews published Tuesday.

https://www.patreon.com/HorsesPT https://www.instagram.com/horses.ig/ SOURCES: The Anatomy of Fascism, by Robert O. Paxton Fascism, by Stanley G. Payne Fascism, by Roger Griffin A History of Fascism, 1914–1945, by Stanley G. Payne The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, by Gustave Le Bon Music: Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen - Before Daybreak Magnus Ludvigsson - Valse Triste Niçoise Gavin Luke - Late Night Sketches Gavin Luke - Chance Encounter Magnus Ludvigsson - Circus Leaving Town Franz Gordon - Theme for Autumn Franz Gordon - Raincoat Waltz Rikard From - Hidden Beneath

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The 10 tactics of fascism, with Jason Stanley Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ►► https://www.youtube.com/c/bigthink Up next ►►"Never Again?" How fascism hijacks democracies over and over https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye4jKSNHhms Fascism is a cult of the leader, who promises national restoration in the face of supposed humiliation by immigrants, leftists, liberals, minorities, homosexuals, women, in the face of what the fascist leader says is a takeover of the country's media, cultural institutions, schools by these forces. Fascist movements typically, though not invariably, rest on an urban/rural divide. The cities are where there's decadence, where the elites congregate, where there's immigrants, and where there's criminality. Each of these individuals alone is not in and of itself fascist, but you have to worry when they're all grouped together, seeing the other as less than. Those moments are the times when societies need to worry about fascism. Read the video transcript: https://bigthink.com/videos/what-is-fascism/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About Jason Stanley: Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. Before coming to Yale in 2013, he was Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University. Stanley is the author of Know How; Languages in Context; Knowledge and Practical Interests, which won the American Philosophical Association book prize; and How Propaganda Works, which won the PROSE Award for Philosophy from the Association of American Publishers. He writes about authoritarianism, propaganda, free speech, mass incarceration, and other topics for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Review, The Guardian, Project Syndicate and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among other publications. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Read more of our stories on fascism: “Never Again?” How fascism hijacks democracies over and over ►► https://bigthink.com/videos/rob-riemen-never-again-how-fascism-hijacks-democracies-over-and-over Fascism and conspiracy theories: The symptoms of broken communication ►► https://bigthink.com/the-present/fascism-and-conspiracy-theories-the-symptoms-of-broken-communication What Fascism Really Is — And What It Isn’t ►► https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/for-your-next-political-argument-what-fascism-really-is ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About Big Think | Smarter Faster™ ► Big Think The leading source of expert-driven, educational content. With thousands of videos, featuring experts ranging from Bill Clinton to Bill Nye, Big Think helps you get smarter, faster by exploring the big ideas and core skills that define knowledge in the 21st century. ► Big Think+ Make your business smarter, faster: https://bigthink.com/plus/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Want more Big Think? ► Daily editorial features: https://bigthink.com/popular/ ► Get the best of Big Think right to your inbox: https://bigthink.com/st/newsletter ► Facebook: https://bigth.ink/facebook ► Instagram: https://bigth.ink/Instagram ► Twitter: https://bigth.ink/twitter

When Republicans blocked the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act on January 19, 2022, they removed the last safety net preventing the U.S.’s plummet toward authoritarianism. As a result, we are at this moment in a state of free-fall, the culmination of a state-level Legislative And Enforcement Landscape that directly mirrors Jim Crow — or as fascism scholar Jason Stanley recently put it, “America is now in fascism’s legal phase.” Although we do have ways of fighting back, the situation is dire. We often hear that the U.S.’s founding documents, courts and institutions make it immune to despotism, but this claim is simply false and erases our country’s troubling history with white supremacy — one the GOP is poised to reinvigorate.

Since they liquidated socialists by the score and opposed everything we believe, Nazis were not leftists.

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In this documentary, Dr. Michael Parenti defines fascism, describes its characteristics, and explains the role fascism plays in serving the rational interests of capitalists while suppressing communism and other organized worker movements. Documentary on IWW and Black Workers: Part 1: https://youtu.be/gXeiGRSxRUU/ Part 2: https://youtu.be/2Ot8mDqy0Pg/ Support the GiveButter for the next Parenti Real History lecture, Myths of the Founding Fathers: https://givebutter.com/wp2UdK SUPPORT NON-COMPETE: Support us on Comradery, a cooperative alternative to Patreon: https://www.comradery.co/noncompete/ Support us on Patreon, a dirty capitalist alternative to Comradery: https://www.patreon.com/noncompete/ Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/noncompete/ LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/NonCompete/ Books: https://www.banyanhouse.org/shop/ Merch: https://www.non-compete.com/shop/ Chapters: 00:00 - Foreword 00:09 - Introduction 03:51 - Characteristics of Fascism 07:04 - Fascism has Rational Functions 13:34 - How Capitalists Supported Fascism 18:16 - Who did Fascism Support? 22:06 - Privatization and Fascism 25:49 - Conclusions About the Functions of Fascism 29:09 - Afterword by EJ 30:32 - Outro Annotations: -01:26: Ukrainian Fascists -01:30: American Nazi "Bund" -01:37: Oswald Mosley -01:58: Arrow Cross Party -02:03: Balázs László -02:08: Horia Sima -02:14: Stepan Bandera -02:23: Charles De Gaulle -02:27: British Union of Fascists -02:35: Augusto Pinochet -03:52: 1. Glorification of Leadership Cult -04:06: 2. Glorification of Nation-State -04:32: 3. Glorification of Military Conquest and Jingoism -04:31: Fritz Julius Kuhn -04:55: American Nazi "Bund" -05:00: 4. Propagation of Folk Mysticism, Xenophobia, and Racism. -05:18: Nazi Mysticism -05:56: 5. Opposition to Left-Egalitarian Class Movements, including trade unions, labor parties, and other working class organizations. -07:17: Vittorio Emanuele Orlando -07:23: Italian Red Guard -07:34: Alberto de’ Stefani -07:53: Italian Red Guard -08:11: Syndicalist Union Meeting -08:18: Benito Mussolini, 1910 -08:26: Prince Aimone -08:32: Excerpt from Encyclopedia Britannica -08:44: Italian Blackshirts -08:51: Benito Mussolini, 1919 -08:56: Giovanni Agnelli -09:02: Fascist Blackshirt Strikebreakers -09:08: Raimondo Targetti -09:22: Mussolini with Business Magnates, 1923 -09:31: Mussolini with Giacomo Acerbo -09:41: Mussolini with wealthy industrialists, 1922 -09:46: Ettore Conti with Edda Mussolini -10:14: Berlin Revolution -10:19: Brownshirt Brawlers -10:29: “the bodyguard of capitalism.” - Daniel Guerin , Fascism and Big Business -10:40: Workers’ Protest, 1930 -10:47: Günther Quandt -10:51: Hans Bahlsen -10:55: I.G. Farben board member Fritz ter Meer meets with Adolf Hitler, 1936 -10:59: Real Tariff Wage in Germany -11:03: SA Shuts Down Trade Unions, 1933. -11:13: Paul Von Hindenburg -11:23: Communist Pamphlet appealing to German Farm Workers -11:29: Elard von Oldenburg-Januschau -11:34: Fritz Thyssen -11:42: Ferdinand Porsche -11:50: Adolf Hitler with Ferdinand Porsche -11:56: Friedrich Flick -12:01: Hitler with Nazi Party members, 1930 -12:06: Hitler at Nuremburg Rally, 1933 -12:16: Fascists make big gains in Germany, 1930 -12:22: Hitler's speech at Coburg, 1935 -12:28: Fritz Reinhardt -12:36: Brownshirts campaigning, 1933 -12:52: German Federal Election Results, 1924-33 -12:59: German bank run, 1931 -13:09: Out-of-work Germans in the Weimar era -13:14: Alfred Hugenburg -13:19: Heinrich Brüning -13:36: Mussolini at Fiat -14:06: Nazi Propaganda Poster -14:15: Hitler with industrialists Walter Borbet and Albert Vögler -13:37: Hitler with industrialists including Fritz Thyssen -14:43: Emil Kirdorf -14:49: Robert Bosch -14:58: Gregor Strasser -15:30: Porsche greeting Hitler -15:49: Rudolf Diels -16:06: March Action, 1921 -16:12: Antonio Gramsci -16:25: Communists Rounded Up -16:35: The Death of Giacomo Matteotti -16:49: Reichswehr Arms Given to Hitler's Men -17:21: Brownshirts arrest communists, 1933 -17:34: Four Years of Political Murder chart -18:51: Duke of Windsor meets Hitler, 1937 -18:58: Oranienburg Concentration Camp, 1933 -19:07: Brownshirts shut down a union hall, 1933 -19:11: Ernst Thälmann -19:18: German Labor Front -19:21: Reich Labor Service -21:11: Austerity Chart -21:36: Allianz Insurance Company -22:51: Slave Labor used by German Capitalists -23:01: Peronne Brothers -24:09: Hitler with Hjalmar Schacht -24:28: Revolution of Berlin, 1919 -24:40: 50 Scorn Nazi Labor Camp

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Umberto Eco Ur-Fascism June 22, 1995

Hi. It sure seems like Elon Musk agrees a lot with the Nazis lately, doesn't it? Oh No! Sounds like I’ve contracted the Woke Mind Virus! Executive Producer - Katy Stoll Hosted by Cody Johnston Directed by Will Gordh Written by Cody Johnston Edited by John Conway Produced by Jonathan Harris Associate Producer - Quincy Tucker Post-Production Supervisor - John Conway Researcher - Marco Siler-Gonzales Graphics by Clint DeNisco Head Writer - David Christopher Bell Right now, Hungryroot is offering Some More News viewers 40% off your first delivery and free veggies for life. Just go to https://Hungryroot.com/MORENEWS to get 40% off your first delivery and get your free veggies. PATREON: https://patreon.com/somemorenews MERCH: https://shop.somemorenews.com PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/some-more-news/id1364825229 Follow us on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SomeMoreNews Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/SomeMoreNews/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SomeMoreNews/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@somemorenews Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hQUF12oO4N2NzqRc7isa9JXVm1vjyi84Oa-8_8qRmTI/edit Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 02:22 - A Stupid Question: Were the Nazis Left-Wing or Right-Wing? 11:09 - What Makes the Nazis... Well, Nazis? 16:36 - So, Why Are We Talking About This? 25:20 - The "Socialists" Who Hate Unions 31:44 - Musk / Ford: Sympathizer Synergy 37:29 - Musk's Sympathetic Origins 43:37 - The Dangers of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion? 49:33 - WOKENESS & The Roots of Cultural Marxism 57:49 - The Woke Mind Virus is Spreading! 01:03:44 - Surrounded by Nazis & Fascists 01:11:17 - Ready Player Elon 01:17:23 - Twitter is gettin' X'ed Y'all 01:23:00 - Elon Musk's Hitler Problem

Umberto Eco Ur-Fascism June 22, 1995

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MAGA Republicans have been attacking Robert Reich as a “coastal elitist” in response to an August 23 tweet in which the liberal economist, UC Berkeley professor and former secretary of labor in the Clinton Administration described far-right Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a “fascist.” Reich’s MAGA crit...

The long shadow of domestic fascism, defined as a project of racial and cultural cleansing, is with us once again. Americans have seen the ghosts of fascism before in acts of savage colonialism and dispossession, in an era of slavery marked by the brutality of whippings and neck irons, and in a Jim Crow age most obvious in the spectacularized horror of murderous lynchings. More recently we have viewed fascist acts of terror in a politics disappearances and genocidal erasures under the dictatorships of Adolf Hitler, Augusto Pinochet in Chile, and others. And in each case, history has given us a glimpse of what the end of humanity would look like.

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