Is Fascism Right Or Left? | 5 Minute Video

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  • čas přidán 3. 12. 2017
  • Every Republican president since the 1970s has been called a fascist. Ironic, no? After all, fascism has its roots in the left. Dinesh D'Souza, author of The Big Lie, explains.
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    Script:
    “He’s a fascist!”
    For decades, this has been a favorite smear of the left, aimed at those on the right. Every Republican president-for that matter, virtually every Republican-since the 1970s has been called a fascist; now, more than ever.
    This label is based on the idea that fascism is a phenomenon of the political right. The left says it is, and some self-styled white supremacists and neo-Nazis embrace the label.
    But are they correct?
    To answer this question, we have to ask what fascism really means: What is its underlying ideology? Where does it even come from?
    These are not easy questions to answer. We know the name of the philosopher of capitalism: Adam Smith. We know the name of the philosopher of Marxism: Karl Marx. But who’s the philosopher of fascism?
    Yes-exactly. You don’t know. Don’t feel bad. Almost no one knows. This is not because he doesn’t exist, but because historians, most of whom are on the political left, had to erase him from history in order to avoid confronting fascism’s actual beliefs. So, let me introduce him to you. His name is Giovanni Gentile.
    Born in 1875, he was one of the world’s most influential philosophers in the first half of the twentieth century. Gentile believed that there were two “diametrically opposed” types of democracy. One is liberal democracy, such as that of the United States, which Gentile dismisses as individualistic-too centered on liberty and personal rights-and therefore selfish. The other, the one Gentile recommends, is “true democracy,” in which individuals willingly subordinate themselves to the state.
    Like his philosophical mentor, Karl Marx, Gentile wanted to create a community that resembles the family, a community where we are “all in this together.” It’s easy to see the attraction of this idea. Indeed, it remains a common rhetorical theme of the left.
    For example, at the 1984 convention of the Democratic Party, the governor of New York, Mario Cuomo, likened America to an extended family where, through the government, people all take care of each other.
    Nothing’s changed. Thirty years later, a slogan of the 2012 Democratic Party convention was, “The government is the only thing we all belong to.” They might as well have been quoting Gentile.
    Now, remember, Gentile was a man of the left. He was a committed socialist. For Gentile, fascism is a form of socialism-indeed, its most workable form. While the socialism of Marx mobilizes people on the basis of class, fascism mobilizes people by appealing to their national identity as well as their class. Fascists are socialists with a national identity. German Fascists in the 1930s were called Nazis-basically a contraction of the term “national socialist.”
    For Gentile, all private action should be oriented to serve society; there is no distinction between the private interest and the public interest. Correctly understood, the two are identical. And who is the administrative arm of the society? It’s none other than the state. Consequently, to submit to society is to submit to the state-not just in economic matters, but in all matters. Since everything is political, the state gets to tell everyone how to think and what to do.
    For the complete script, visit www.prageru.com/videos/fascis...

Komentáře • 25K

  • @wannabeasubscriber528
    @wannabeasubscriber528 Před 6 lety +5519

    Fascism was created when Mussolini didn't get his spaghetti he had ordered

  • @alexbohl2489
    @alexbohl2489 Před 5 lety +1329

    Oh my god, who would have known that the anti fascists were the real fascists all along!
    Edit: This is sarcastic

    • @sonicthehedgehog1109
      @sonicthehedgehog1109 Před 5 lety +7

      Gosh* I'm sorry pls don't hate hate on me

    • @kalanaherath3076
      @kalanaherath3076 Před 5 lety +65

      No this video is wrong. The left is about social equality and less social hierarchy. The right is about higher social hierarchy. Please don't listen to liars like De Souza. Do your own research. Google it! Capitalism creates a hierarchy between rich and poor and fascism creates a hierarchy between the dominant race and the inferior race as it tries to establish a "strictly regimented society" THAT IS THE DEFINITION OF FASCISM!!!, therefore FASCISM IS ON THE RIGHT!
      Sources:
      Fascism: www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism&ved=2ahUKEwj6l6_Ag5bhAhVNgUsFHRDsDXoQmhMwAXoECAwQAg&usg=AOvVaw0HIctDKg0QEsh2HI1lOpuu
      Right wing politics: www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_politics&ved=2ahUKEwiL2o-thJbhAhXaZCsKHc6KCfwQFjABegQIERAE&usg=AOvVaw1SFb8sEqPd6ShF6FPd0yal
      Left wing politics: www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics&ved=2ahUKEwi91eC_hJbhAhVZVH0KHcQWCxQQFjABegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw1CC52nvXPBfINuBaPNOHM3

    • @thatoneguynextdoor8794
      @thatoneguynextdoor8794 Před 5 lety +16

      @@kalanaherath3076
      Thank you for writing what otherwise I would have had to write

    • @kalanaherath3076
      @kalanaherath3076 Před 5 lety +9

      @@thatoneguynextdoor8794 saved you the time and effort. :)

    • @MrComputerCoder
      @MrComputerCoder Před 5 lety +102

      @@kalanaherath3076 You're incorrect. All this video did was explain points of view of specific people. Not what they actually are. At least attempt to pay attention.
      Fascism doesn't have an entirely definite definition. It was all interpretation by different people. Each form that took place was different. It does not really equate to strictly left or right.

  • @somnvm37
    @somnvm37 Před 3 lety +572

    video:Do you know who's the creator of facsism?
    Me:mussolini
    video:exactly, no one knows

    • @claudiachen3557
      @claudiachen3557 Před 3 lety +76

      Mussolini is a fascist leader, it was as if saying Lenin is the creator of Communism, or Roosevelt is the creator of capitalism.

    • @somnvm37
      @somnvm37 Před 3 lety +28

      @@claudiachen3557 ah yea, jesus made fascism.

    • @radiorender7163
      @radiorender7163 Před 3 lety +6

      @@somnvm37 this
      but unironically
      lol

    • @commenter6973
      @commenter6973 Před 3 lety +37

      @@claudiachen3557 Giovanni Gentile was the creator of fascism

    • @killertir2562
      @killertir2562 Před 3 lety +50

      @@commenter6973 I'm Italian and no, Giovanni gentile isn't the creator of fascism, in twenty years of fascism in Italy we had the most number of privatization in our history and the right of Proletarian are soppresed in violence. To rise to power, Mussolini allied himself with the capitalist and conservative right and repressed all forms of left and trade unions. However, let's analyze from the social point of view, capitalist society is hierarchical or vertical, there are men who are higher and men who are lower and this also happens with fascism. instead the communism conceived by karl Marx foresees the abolition of hierarchies and therefore promotes a horizontal society. This also happened with Nazism in Germany, and it is not that if you call yourself "national socialism" then you are a "socialist" the facts do not count, it is not that if my name is fish then I am. So the capitalist and fascism are very similar.

  • @LionsinofStraight
    @LionsinofStraight Před 2 lety +207

    Giovani: “We are just one big Family”
    Dominic Toretto: “Guess now I’m a facist”

    • @bsmith8166
      @bsmith8166 Před 2 lety

      This is a PragerU video. These people don't read or care about truth, learning, facts, etc. This channel's sole function is to run propaganda for oil billionaires.

    • @reginawaweru8652
      @reginawaweru8652 Před rokem +2

      😂that's a good one

    • @chrischeehan2423
      @chrischeehan2423 Před rokem

      That would be someone who likes to take it in the face

    • @chrischeehan2423
      @chrischeehan2423 Před rokem

      That would be someone who likes to take it in the face

    • @chrischeehan2423
      @chrischeehan2423 Před rokem

      That would be someone who likes to take it in the face

  • @user-xf6ty4iv9w
    @user-xf6ty4iv9w Před 5 lety +2559

    Who else thought fascism was created by Musolinni?

    • @outatisater7943
      @outatisater7943 Před 5 lety +339

      Fascism is anti-capitalist, so it only makes sense that belongs to the left.

    • @user-xf6ty4iv9w
      @user-xf6ty4iv9w Před 5 lety +12

      @@outatisater7943 λιγο ασχετο αλλα πηγαίνεις 3 Γυμνασίου?

    • @outatisater7943
      @outatisater7943 Před 5 lety +6

      @@user-xf6ty4iv9w τρίτη γυμνασίου πήγαινα πριν από 8 χρόνια, γιατί το λες αυτό;

    • @user-xf6ty4iv9w
      @user-xf6ty4iv9w Před 5 lety +3

      @@outatisater7943 τιποτα αστο.

    • @outatisater7943
      @outatisater7943 Před 5 lety +6

      @@user-xf6ty4iv9w okey

  • @geennaam555
    @geennaam555 Před 3 lety +753

    Fascism works like this:
    Right-wing says it's left-wing
    Left-wing says it's right-wing
    Fascists say they're neither

    • @socialismodemocracia9366
      @socialismodemocracia9366 Před 3 lety +37

      Neo-fascists you mean. Because fascists nowadays differ in phylosophy to real fascists before.
      Real fascists were nothing more than capitalists, supported by big companies

    • @user-vv1do1wg1j
      @user-vv1do1wg1j Před 3 lety +132

      @@socialismodemocracia9366
      Hitler and Mussolini weren't capitalists.
      They're supported by STATE controlled corporations.
      Capitalism is the free exchange of goods and services, when you restrict exchanges between people thats not capitalist, having a state technically own every business in a country (nazi germany, hitler could seize any property/means of production whenever he wanted and it was legal for him to do so) isn't capitalist.
      You can argue they're state corporatists, but they're not at all capitalist, i love how commies like you always bring up "lol read a book" yet you call a statist that hates the free market and freedom itself a capitalist.
      All drugs should be legal to sell, use and own
      All weapons should be legal to sell, use and own
      Taxation is theft.
      These are pure capitalist views on government and it's regulatory actions, the nazis despised these ideas.
      I'm a pragmatic libertarian minarchist, i support regulation that stifles monopolization and very light environmental regulation, you have the right to consume black tar heroine and to build a stationary cannon on your roof.

    • @CrumpetCraig
      @CrumpetCraig Před 3 lety +5

      @Marcus Randall No he wasn't.

    • @coaxill4059
      @coaxill4059 Před 3 lety +47

      HAH the notion that Hitler was a Marxist is laughable. Feel free to actually read one of his speeches or books. His open contempt for all communist ideology and Marx himself is a consistent and significant feature of his rhetoric. Hitler himself said that Marxism is inherently Jewish because Marx was Jewish, and that it was a weak and contemptible ideology designed to ruin a nation's ability to self determine; Even going so far as to say that Communism existed to serve the Jews that (according to him) were trying to take control of the world. He called his ideology National Socialism not because it was based on socialist ideology, but because socialism was very popular in Germany. Multiple parties called themselves some variant of socialism. The first concentration camps were built to detain outspoken socialists and socialist ideology was banned after the Nazi party came to power.
      I know it's popular to equate Hitler and the Nazis with stuff people don't like, but you can't claim Hitler was even a little bit Marxist without ignoring all of the relevant history, including his own freaking words.

    • @CrumpetCraig
      @CrumpetCraig Před 3 lety +4

      @Marcus Randall In what way was he a marxist?

  • @marquel5018
    @marquel5018 Před 3 lety +218

    "Facism is when the government does stuff" - Benito Mussolini probably

    • @KwangsKwatics
      @KwangsKwatics Před 3 lety +14

      I’m pretty sure the quote was “Socialism is when the government does stuff” by Karl Marx

    • @christopherjones9536
      @christopherjones9536 Před 3 lety +2

      @@KwangsKwatics mad cuz u got owned haha

    • @mikeharvey2129
      @mikeharvey2129 Před 2 lety

      @@KwangsKwatics No. It was from Richard D. Wolff, a Marxian economist. The quote is taken significantly out of context though.

    • @aregularhuman4776
      @aregularhuman4776 Před 2 lety +2

      “and the more stuff it does the more facister it is, and when it does a real lotta stuff, it’s nationalism” -sun tzu: the art of war

    • @flavio7180
      @flavio7180 Před 2 lety

      No that’s Lana Rhoades.

  • @wvt5825
    @wvt5825 Před 3 lety +241

    Haha, "were in this together." Sounds familiar

    • @Alex-qe5wn
      @Alex-qe5wn Před 3 lety +3

      Did Trump not say that a few times

    • @thewatcher776
      @thewatcher776 Před 3 lety +4

      The British Conservative Party 2010 manifesto had a grpahic that said that, does that mean they are left wing?

    • @jonathanchisholm3319
      @jonathanchisholm3319 Před 3 lety

      @@thewatcher776 really? Your trying to make a non political statement political

    • @lorddio2737
      @lorddio2737 Před 3 lety

      Uniting people has always been the most powerful rhetorical tool.

    • @ShnoogleMan
      @ShnoogleMan Před 3 lety

      Folks, is it fascist to *checks notes* be in it together?

  • @buggybranch2136
    @buggybranch2136 Před 5 lety +625

    Has anyone here actually read the Doctrine of Fascism or actual fascist philosophy

    • @umutyigit4918
      @umutyigit4918 Před 5 lety +84

      @@gary3936 They condemned everyone who was not them. Stalin killed Communists in the soviet union. They called Jews Socialists and Communists, I know that you are not saying it but with your argument I can make the claim that you think that Jews are Socialist and Communist.
      Secondly it is about political power, why would you want other people with the same ideas as you but with less murder to rise up.
      I can point out that they killed Capitalists as they were seen as greedy, especially at a time where millions of Germans were starving and unemployed.
      Furthermore there is a thing called the conservative left as well as a thing called the progressive right. Conservative and progressive is not just a left right thing, after all conservative values fuel into nationalism as it promotes the family the responsibilities of men and women and helpfully an increase in the population.
      Also the video points out the origins of Fascism as being National Socialism made by a leftist philosopher and taken up by ex-Socialists in Mussolini case and on that same video the claim that Fascism is right wing is made.

    • @LeDomge
      @LeDomge Před 5 lety +58

      Fascism has no direct doctrine. It was a socialistic movement that Benito Mussolini founded and called it fascismo

    • @damianich4824
      @damianich4824 Před 5 lety +143

      @@LeDomge The Doctrine of Fascism is an essay by Gentile and Mussolini. It's short and you can read it online. Reading it would open your eyes that Dinesh here is full of it. Eg what Fascists mean by the state is not the same as Dinesh's liberal concept of the state, but that doesn't stop him from obfuscating the two so that he can spout scare quotes.

    • @teroknor1377
      @teroknor1377 Před 5 lety +122

      ​@@damianich4824 Define what facists mean by "state" then. Re-reading the Doctrine of Fascism, even with your quote in mind, there is zero evidence I can see that it refers to anything but a centralized authority which restricts individual rights and freedoms, which is everything the Righti in America is against.

    • @north1275
      @north1275 Před 5 lety +62

      @@gary3936 Fascism is outside the realm of Right and Left, bro

  • @Skinnymarks
    @Skinnymarks Před 4 lety +1710

    Fascist play book: claim its the other side is fascist.

    • @katla3393
      @katla3393 Před 4 lety +85

      No, the other side is filled with communists and anarchists, I dont call them fascist, I call myself fascist.

    • @Skinnymarks
      @Skinnymarks Před 4 lety +38

      @@katla3393
      Did you not watch the video?
      You may be a proud fascist but most faccists are trying to go under the radar and trick people who don't want fascism into furthering the cause of fascism

    • @katla3393
      @katla3393 Před 4 lety +68

      @@Skinnymarks the left has no fascists, they have commies and anarchists, sure some fascist dont publically anounce their ideology because well, it has a bad rep. But by calling the left fascist you play by their book, not any form of authoritarianism is fascism.

    • @mcwaff8661
      @mcwaff8661 Před 4 lety +21

      @@Skinnymarks bro no bc these antifa people dont want a nationalist country

    • @goldhetman729
      @goldhetman729 Před 4 lety +6

      @@katla3393 You are boss man

  • @mrActionhouse
    @mrActionhouse Před rokem +45

    The best way to avoid history from repeating itself, is learning and understanding what it was.

    • @MaxAbramson3
      @MaxAbramson3 Před 6 měsíci +3

      Nationalist Socialists and fascists referred to themselves as left-wing socialists and were both big government gun grabbers. The Nazi's were a merger of two socialist parties, including the economically socialist Political Worker's Circle (PAC), joined at the hip with the european communists. However, the Nazi's formed a coalition government with a right-wing populist party in Germany called the German National People's Party (DNVP), which had more seats than the Nazi's did. So that coalition might've been right-wing populist, but Hitler kept calling his party, "From the camp of bourgeois tradition, it takes national resolve, and from the materialism of the Marxist dogma, living, creative Socialism," anti-liberal, and anti-capitalist.

    • @DANCEGARAGEPUNK
      @DANCEGARAGEPUNK Před 5 měsíci

      @@MaxAbramson3 So Far right neo nazis are really left wing ? ? LOL : )

    • @DANCEGARAGEPUNK
      @DANCEGARAGEPUNK Před 5 měsíci

      ​@@MaxAbramson3 Hitler is not only known as being Far Right, Capitalism`s cult of the individual is attractive to dictators

    • @petuniagirl1
      @petuniagirl1 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Yes. And fight against canceling historical figures, tearing down their statues. History, and the people who made history, for good or ill, have a lot to teach us that can inform our future.

    • @paradigm-gauge
      @paradigm-gauge Před měsícem +1

      I agree, but it also requires understanding how the use of philosophical and political terms and concepts gets muddled over time.
      If you were to study the origin of liberalism, for example, starting with John Locke, you'd be very confused by its applications in modern American cultural context, where the meaning has become more like an oxymoron.
      I prefer to resist these ambiguities and refer back to source material and origins, because the changes often have the intent of fooling people, engineering the way they think.
      Case example: the Swastica existed for thousands of years in the Hindu religion and meant prosperity. Hitler stole it and now when people see it they think of bigotry and destruction.
      Those who seek power will steal words and symbols to wear like wolves in sheep clothing and trick people into following them. This creates historical ambiguities down the road.

  • @skprog
    @skprog Před 3 lety +359

    "Those Who Do Not Learn History Are Doomed To Repeat It."

    • @krystynacarpenter9444
      @krystynacarpenter9444 Před 3 lety +13

      No truer words were ever spoken.

    • @pamelaamyotte9940
      @pamelaamyotte9940 Před 3 lety +16

      And apparently historians are left? -Praguer U.

    • @pamelaamyotte9940
      @pamelaamyotte9940 Před 3 lety +3

      @Spartan 506 That's what it said on the video.

    • @user-kd3gz1hl1e
      @user-kd3gz1hl1e Před 3 lety +7

      As Gandhi said.....
      "Mussolini's care of the poor, his opposition to super-urbanization, his efforts to bring about coordination between capital and labor, seem to me to demand special attention ... My own fundamental objection is that these reforms are compulsory. But it is the same in all democratic institutions. What strikes me is that behind Mussolini's implacability is a desire to serve his people. Even behind his emphatic speeches there is a nucleus of sincerity and of passionate love for his people. It seems to me that the majority of the Italian people love the iron government of Mussolini."
      "He is the great statesmen of our time.”

    • @apotato5567
      @apotato5567 Před 3 lety +2

      @@user-kd3gz1hl1e He was an asshole I’m Italian he’s hated in the south he didn’t improve living standards

  • @ethanwinters1469
    @ethanwinters1469 Před 4 lety +1774

    Maybe facism is the friends we made along the way?

    • @makeromaniagreatagain9697
      @makeromaniagreatagain9697 Před 4 lety +13

      What do you mean?

    • @jessebruce9016
      @jessebruce9016 Před 4 lety +14

      Excellent portrait the juxtaposition is just moii 👌

    • @bigbang8817
      @bigbang8817 Před 4 lety +7

      Confirm

    • @makeromaniagreatagain9697
      @makeromaniagreatagain9697 Před 4 lety +8

      @@Andre-yu3rb true, but he could also be a stupid leftist

    • @Thor.Jorgensen
      @Thor.Jorgensen Před 4 lety +3

      ​@@Andre-yu3rb Except you know... Jreg isn't really a fan of PragerU... Unless you're speaking "in character" and when he's speaking in favor of political extremism of all sides.
      I mean he's making the joke of leftist being nazis in that horseshoe theory video referencing the Nazbol movement.
      Don't forget that Nazis invented the "Jewish Bolshevism" conspiracy theory, blaming Jews for socialism and communism.
      Not to suggest that only right-wingers can be anti-Semitic. Stalin was anti-Semitic too, but neither Hitler nor Mussolini, nor Hirohito was socialist. They all spoke about the glory of the past. "Make Rome great again" and "Make the Empire (Reich) great again" was among their slogans.

  • @marcoflorian5182
    @marcoflorian5182 Před 4 lety +1115

    I'm Italian and honestly I didn't know even that Gentile existed

    • @averagecommunist3456
      @averagecommunist3456 Před 4 lety +36

      So sorry for you man...

    • @G1CAAAAEO
      @G1CAAAAEO Před 3 lety +40

      Mama mia

    • @Aquila476
      @Aquila476 Před 3 lety +13

      DAMN, nice profile pic of Milliena 😂(Don't remove the covid mask though 😂)

    • @marcoflorian5182
      @marcoflorian5182 Před 3 lety +2

      @Julian io sono italiano

    • @marcoflorian5182
      @marcoflorian5182 Před 3 lety +2

      @Julian o scritto in inglese il primo commento perché penso che la maggior parte delle persone che guardano questo canali parlano inglese

  • @elenagolosio4363
    @elenagolosio4363 Před 2 lety +123

    How the hell does nobody know Giovanni Gentile? I live in Italy, and here he's considered one of the most important philosophers of the XX century. He changed the school system into a new fascist one, and we still use it.

    • @heisvi9317
      @heisvi9317 Před 2 lety +35

      Unfortunately he's not well known in North America, don't know about the rest of Europe.

    • @cdevidal
      @cdevidal Před 2 lety +5

      Not taught in schools here in the United States. This is the first I’d heard of him, and I am fairly well-educated. It is just as Dinesh says, the Left hides him from the rest of the world.

    • @thunder9793
      @thunder9793 Před rokem +1

      nobody knows him in caucasus or russia

    • @pierren___
      @pierren___ Před rokem +4

      Id like to hear more about the Italian school system

    • @LBM01028
      @LBM01028 Před rokem +1

      Because Democrats cover him up and hide him so they can change America fascist!

  • @Burgundian_Boi
    @Burgundian_Boi Před 2 lety +32

    PragerU: Is Fascism Left or Right?
    Me: *Yes*

    • @F1lmtwit
      @F1lmtwit Před rokem +2

      Me: Is PragerU Fascist?
      PragerU: Yes.

    • @FM-dm8xj
      @FM-dm8xj Před rokem +8

      left.....

    • @jex4585
      @jex4585 Před rokem +4

      It’s neither, it’s not bound to a spectrum. All instances of fascism in history have been right wing, but it’s not bound to the right wing, it could also be left wing.

    • @redgreen4449
      @redgreen4449 Před rokem

      Did you watch the vid ?

    • @jex4585
      @jex4585 Před rokem

      @@redgreen4449 vid is wrong

  • @ZangRap
    @ZangRap Před 6 lety +843

    Never even heard of this Gentile fella by accident, until today.

    • @stardreamer8996
      @stardreamer8996 Před 6 lety +18

      He does good stuff. You should check out his books and movies. They're pretty good if you lean right.

    • @bobon123
      @bobon123 Před 6 lety +37

      He is very well known in Europe. In Italy is as well known as Adam Smith is in US. There is a "Via Giovanni Gentile" in any big city of Italy.

    • @ab-ul1yz
      @ab-ul1yz Před 6 lety +13

      bobon123 Yes he was mostly a philosopher and an intellectual, these guys at praguer don't actually care about fascism otherwise they'd know better

    • @jos_meid
      @jos_meid Před 6 lety +14

      +a b They called him a philosopher, so...

    • @ab-ul1yz
      @ab-ul1yz Před 6 lety +10

      Jos Meid Yes but if I want to know about fascist belief I'd rather look at what Mussolini said, not what Gentile said. I find it interesting, and maybe suspiciously convenient, that they quote Gentile more than Mussolini. There were plenty of different intellectuals that were supported or tolerated by the fascist regime, many of them were at odds with each other (example D'Annunzio and Marinetti) and none of them dictated the philosophy of fascism, Mussolini did (in fact he decided to persecute the Jews even if some Jews were among the founders of the Fascist party). In this case the dishonesty of pragerU is clear

  • @andrewthetextbook489
    @andrewthetextbook489 Před 4 lety +414

    I used to think the word "fascism" had something to do with the word "fascination" when I was young.

    • @nationalistcanuck7800
      @nationalistcanuck7800 Před 4 lety +7

      So, you were a moron when you were young, and you remain a moron to this very day? I read Mussolini's 'The Doctrine of Fascism' when I was 16. I read 'Das Kapital' and 'The Communist Manifesto' at the same time. I am STILL to this very day laughing at 'The Communist Manifesto' because I picked it apart with ease at the age of 16.

    • @andrewthetextbook489
      @andrewthetextbook489 Před 4 lety +112

      Dude, what are you even talking about? I was just posting something funny, and you went crazy for like, no reason, man.

    • @DriscollAlaska
      @DriscollAlaska Před 4 lety +50

      @@nationalistcanuck7800 what even made you so UNJUSTLY entitled enough to one up some casual dude who just had to express his thoughts and then make a whole pointless speech about what a 4th grader can literally do you stupid moron

    • @DriscollAlaska
      @DriscollAlaska Před 4 lety +29

      @@nationalistcanuck7800 Is your ego that bruised you moron?

    • @doommachine1052
      @doommachine1052 Před 4 lety +24

      @@nationalistcanuck7800 that manifesto was made so that the illiterate working class could understand it, so I guess it says a lot about you

  • @paddystrongjaw9995
    @paddystrongjaw9995 Před 3 lety +15

    Did he really call fascists socialists?

    • @ihatewomen1776
      @ihatewomen1776 Před 3 lety +9

      yes he did, hes wrong

    • @Dread102
      @Dread102 Před 3 lety +2

      The nazis called themselves socialists

    • @ihatewomen1776
      @ihatewomen1776 Před 3 lety +5

      @@Dread102 Fascists arent nazis. Fascists follow mussolini, nazis follow hitler

    • @soreliansorelianism6802
      @soreliansorelianism6802 Před 2 lety +5

      The head of the Italian communist party Niccola Bombacci was appointed as economics minister by Mussolini and 75% of Italy was nationalized under state socialism.
      Mussolini quotes, many after he became a fascist........
      "Marx was the greatest of all theorists of socialism."
      "Socialism has to remain a terrifying and a majestic thing. If we follow this line, we shall be able to face our enemies."
      "The law of socialism is that of the desert: a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye. Socialism is a rude and bitter truth, which was born in the conflict of opposing forces and in violence. Socialism is war, and woe to those who are cowardly in war. They will be defeated."
      "The root of our psychological weakness was this: We socialists have never examined the problems of nations. The International was never concerned with it. The International is dead, paralyzed by events. Ten million proletarians are today on the battlefield."
      "You cannot get rid of me because I am and always will be a socialist. You hate me because you still love me."
      "Do not believe, even for a moment, that by stripping me of my membership card you do the same to my Socialist beliefs, nor that you would restrain me of continuing to work in favor of Socialism and of the Revolution"
      "Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron. There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities."
      "I know the Communists. I know them because some of them are my children"
      "I shall defend this pact with all my strength, and if Fascism does not follow me in collaboration with the Socialists, at least no one can force me to follow Fascism."
      "Standing by me and helping my work as newspaper man were the Fascisti. They were composed of revolutionary spirits who believed in intervention. They were youths-the students of the universities, the socialist syndicalists-destroying faith in Karl Marx by their ideals."
      "It was inevitable that I should become a Socialist ultra, a Blanquist, indeed a communist. I carried about a medallion with Marx’s head on it in my pocket. I think I regarded it as a sort of talisman. Marx had a profound critical intelligence and was in some sense even a prophet."
      "I never felt that there was any conflict between my military duties and my Socialism. Why should not a good soldier be also a fighter in the class war?"
      "Italy is not a capitalist country according to the meaning now conventionally assigned to that term."
      "Three-fourths of the Italian economy, industrial and agricultural, is in the hands of the state. And if I dare to introduce to Italy state capitalism or state socialism, which is the reverse side of the medal, I will have the necessary subjective and objective conditions to do it."
      "It is no longer an economy aiming at individual profit, but economy concerned with collective interest."
      "When the war is over, in the world's social revolution that will be followed by a more equitable distribution of the earth's riches, due account must be kept of the sacrifices and of the discipline maintained by the Italian workers. The Fascist revolution will make another decisive step to shorten social distances."
      "Some still ask of us: what do you want? We answer with three words that summon up our entire program. Here they are…Italy, Republic, Socialization. . .Socialization is no other than the implantation of Italian Socialism"
      "For this I have been and am a socialist. The accusation of inconsistency has no foundation. My conduct has always been straight in the sense of looking at the substance of things and not to the form. I adapted socialisticamente to reality. As the evolution of society belied many of the prophecies of Marx, the true socialism folded from possible to probable. The only feasible socialism socialisticamente is corporatism, confluence, balance and justice interests compared to the collective interest."
      "I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts."

    • @joakimandersson3884
      @joakimandersson3884 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Yes because they are.

  • @jodichambers2505
    @jodichambers2505 Před 2 dny +3

    An early supporter of the Fascist movement, he has been called the philosopher of Fascism. Gentile cooperated with the fascist government and became an apologist
    of the totalitarian state, which he viewed as the embodiment of the moral spirit. He called for the total submission of the personality to the state and for the dissolution of individuals in political history.
    From The Free dictionary

    • @RodMartinJr
      @RodMartinJr Před dnem +1

      *_Farthest Left_* 100% government; 0% individual liberty and responsibility; Collectivism.
      *_Farthest Right_* 0% government; 100% individual liberty and responsibility; Individualism.
      *_Americanism_* 5-10% government; 90-95% individual liberty and responsibility.
      Derived from Thomas Sowell (Intellectuals and Society, ch.6), and John Birch Society video, "Overview of America."
      😎♥✝🇺🇸💯

  • @ITPalGame
    @ITPalGame Před 3 lety +1028

    This video was made 2 years ago, yet, "we're all in this together", is the annoying mantra in every covid commercial and grocery store.

    • @brytonwallis4817
      @brytonwallis4817 Před 3 lety +5

      Ignorance can be created when we ignore something, and I myself have seen this vid too long ago though.

    • @dave-yj9mc
      @dave-yj9mc Před 3 lety +12

      Good observation!

    • @jkmerriwether9919
      @jkmerriwether9919 Před 3 lety +32

      Hillary was supposed to bring Fascism to America but they botched that, so now they're pimping COVID-19 to get what they want.

    • @randalftheblack2572
      @randalftheblack2572 Před 3 lety +11

      Just looking at how badly the US is handling the pandemic tells me that you are not in fact in this together..
      It's mostly in the US you see the crazies who claim it's their "right" to not wear masks.
      When does your right end and another's right begin?
      Does your right to not wear a face mask supercede anothers right to avoid infection?

    • @bloodhunter4628
      @bloodhunter4628 Před 3 lety +9

      RandalfTheBlack I mean, what about covering ur mouth when u sneeze/cough? U don’t see the government requiring that. And just like wearing a mask, it can stop the people around u from getting sick.

  • @silverblade357
    @silverblade357 Před 4 lety +801

    "Selfless people must stop focusing on personal freedoms and be willing to subordinate themselves to the community!"
    "Okay, but who gets to make decisions for the group?"
    "Well, it was my idea, so..."

    • @dennisdaniel1208
      @dennisdaniel1208 Před 4 lety +26

      Yea thats a shit idea. Instead lets have the people decide whats best for them (even though the majority of people are complete retards)

    • @prodrivebrasil
      @prodrivebrasil Před 4 lety +8

      Hahahah! Excellent ! Great comment! :D

    • @silverblade357
      @silverblade357 Před 4 lety +29

      @@dennisdaniel1208 Yeah, but the type of person arrogant enough to think they know best for everybody isn't much better.

    • @dennisdaniel1208
      @dennisdaniel1208 Před 4 lety +4

      @ls7orBust2
      >happy
      >whats best for them
      Pick one.

    • @dennisdaniel1208
      @dennisdaniel1208 Před 4 lety +1

      @@silverblade357 you say that like they dont know.

  • @hiimain7932
    @hiimain7932 Před 2 lety +20

    Anyone who thinks that they know what is best for everyone using a single principle is arrogant. If we let them roam around spreading their arrogant ideology, they will cause chaos, because everyone's definition of happiness is unique, there is no single method to address them all. My happiness, your happiness and the happiness is not necessarily the same. So we must listen to one another and be considerate.

    • @bwhog
      @bwhog Před 10 měsíci +1

      "If I, as a flawed and imperfect individual, cannot be trusted to mind my own affairs, I certainly have no justification in trusting a government composed of similarly flawed and imperfect individuals to mind them for me." -- Me (channeling Thomas Jefferson's "angels" remark from his inaugural address.)

    • @grondheise
      @grondheise Před 5 měsíci

      The federation of the EU is a dictator ex sample

  • @jakubjary9052
    @jakubjary9052 Před 3 lety +36

    Benito Mussolini: "I am and will remain a socialist and my views will never change. I have them in my blood. "

    • @estebanbr7596
      @estebanbr7596 Před 3 lety

      How is war not part of the socialist movement???

    • @user-kd3gz1hl1e
      @user-kd3gz1hl1e Před 3 lety +1

      @Lucas Lombardo "You cannot get rid of me because I am and always will be a socialist. You hate me because you still love me."

    • @soraparent1256
      @soraparent1256 Před 3 lety +14

      “No individuals or groups, political parties, associations, labor unions outside the state. For this reason, fascism is opposed to socialism, which clings ritually to class war, and ignores the unity of the state, which moles the classes into a single, moral, and economic reality.” Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile, The Doctrine of Fascism, 1932. Your quote was from 1914 when Mussolini was still a member of the Socialist Party

    • @figofigo7908
      @figofigo7908 Před 10 měsíci

      ​@@soraparent1256 they don't read history
      Mussolini was hard core left wing socialist
      Until he left that party to Create his fascist brown shirt
      Main Reason why Fascism is Considered right wing they were Die hard Anticommunist and Anti Leftist

    • @MochoStudiosYT
      @MochoStudiosYT Před 7 měsíci +1

      and then they kicked him out his party.

  • @usa8529
    @usa8529 Před 4 lety +228

    I find it funny that the creator of fascism's last name means "gentle/nice" in italian.

    • @yeabuddy1610
      @yeabuddy1610 Před 4 lety +20

      USA You see? The Marxists just wanna silence a nice guy

    • @usa8529
      @usa8529 Před 4 lety +6

      @@yeabuddy1610 Who's a nice guy?

    • @yeabuddy1610
      @yeabuddy1610 Před 4 lety +13

      USA Sarcasm, my friend

    • @xleplex7070
      @xleplex7070 Před 3 lety +2

      Well he had good intentions.., I think. Don’t quote me on that.

    • @supertrooper6011
      @supertrooper6011 Před 3 lety +1

      to be fair I dont think there is any obligation within fascist doctrine to go and start a war, I guess if everyone was pro-fascist it could be gentle

  • @martinsFILMS13
    @martinsFILMS13 Před 5 lety +426

    "Former Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, is quoted as saying, “Fascism should more appropriate be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power. Benito Mussolini

    • @craxd1
      @craxd1 Před 5 lety +76

      That sounds a lot like the globalists and their NWO, does it not?

    • @nathansharp5743
      @nathansharp5743 Před 5 lety +20

      I've seen the quote. I don't know if it's true or not. If it is, then America is fascist, no matter who you vote for, because corporate cronyism and back dealing is at play weather Democrat
      or Republicans are in.
      Communism isn't a viable alternative either, because it's simply a massive conglomeration of state, industry, and military. It may be due to Italian language. The term corporate means body (ie
      corpse,corporeal), to imply many acting under one body, much like how Catholic refers to being one with the body of Christ.

    • @craxd1
      @craxd1 Před 5 lety +7

      Nathan Sharp: Look at a photo of the House of Representatives, and notice what is mounted on the wall on either side of the Speaker. Fascism has been within the US since Thomas Jefferson and the creation of the political parties. It was Jefferson's party that ushered in the word, Democratic.

    • @casio6651
      @casio6651 Před 5 lety +14

      You don't know what Corporatism is, do you?

    • @craxd1
      @craxd1 Před 5 lety +18

      Corporatism: "The control of a state or organization by large interest groups."
      Example: "Fascism was the high point of corporatism."
      A political party, labor union, or a grouping of the members of the wealthy power elite, such as a "round table group" (NGO), is an interest group. The UN and EU are very good examples of controlled authority, as well as any corporate state/government being controlled by the same groups. This is why FDR stated that he admired Mussolini's fascism. It was FDR who helped create the UN, which originated with the Lend-Lease Plan, before it was revealed to the public and organized as an official world authority. The UN is controlled by corporate interests.
      You might also find that Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler were controlled by large corporate interests, outside of Russia, Italy, and Germany, and thus, so were their governments instead of the other way around. Marx was also an elitist puppet of the old noble ruling class.
      The United States Govt. has also been controlled by a group of the wealthy power elite, especially financiers, since its founding. FDR stated that it started under Jackson, but in reality, it started under Washington, Hamilton, and Jefferson with the war debt, Wall Street, and trade with Europe.

  • @c.s432
    @c.s432 Před 2 lety +3

    Fascism is the idea of a state identity btw for anyone wondering

  • @genikal9906
    @genikal9906 Před 3 lety +2

    It's none; it's third position.

  • @peekingundertheblindfold3300
    @peekingundertheblindfold3300 Před 6 lety +1869

    Something tells me this answer wouldn't come up if you asked Alexa...

    • @Great_Scott_
      @Great_Scott_ Před 6 lety +43

      Who's Alexa? Is she about as deranged as Dinesh?

    • @danb7202
      @danb7202 Před 6 lety +72

      ZANIACK Dinesh makes pretty good points tbh

    • @youcantstopthescout8921
      @youcantstopthescout8921 Před 6 lety +78

      "Sorry, I don't know that one."

    • @MadDemon64
      @MadDemon64 Před 6 lety +15

      Or anyone who actually bothered to do any real research on the matter.

    • @CANOOB18
      @CANOOB18 Před 6 lety +7

      Lmao you fell for that Crowder video? That was staged (or wikipedia was edited), they most likely used the Simon Says feature on Alexa. If you know anything about tech you'd know it's impossible for Amazon to program individual answers into Alexa (other than the hi hello stuff) because of lack of physical memory.

  • @dallinfullmer3073
    @dallinfullmer3073 Před 4 lety +393

    The ultimate “no u”

  • @naughtyzoot1
    @naughtyzoot1 Před 3 lety +7

    Wow. Incredible video. Thank you!

    • @seriousissues2012
      @seriousissues2012 Před 3 lety

      You should see the rebuttal video. D’Souza - as always - is talking out his ass.

  • @owencole5774
    @owencole5774 Před 2 lety +11

    All it takes is a single google search to realize that the creator of Fascism is not Giovanni but is actually Benito Mussolini who is right leaning.

    • @keithdavis4649
      @keithdavis4649 Před 2 lety +2

      History and fact prove you wrong. You have been lied to for years. Put aside the brain-mush you have been force fed since grade school and do some actual fact finding.
      Mussolini was of the 'right'? Next you will say that hitler was conservative. Another lie foisted on many minds by the propaganda that is much of the media, social and otherwise.
      Sources for you search? Here's a hint. Most people don't watch CNN and MSNBC for the same reason thety don't eat out of the toilet.

    • @jakethesnake3513
      @jakethesnake3513 Před 2 lety

      @@keithdavis4649 are dumb Hitler was extremly conservative

    • @JoseGarcia-xf5gk
      @JoseGarcia-xf5gk Před 2 lety

      Fascism was created by Giovanni Gentile and Mussolini followed.

    • @owencole5774
      @owencole5774 Před 2 lety +1

      @@JoseGarcia-xf5gk True, however Giovanni only ever philosophized about fascism but Mussolini was the first person to actually establish the party. Good point though.

    • @soreliansorelianism6802
      @soreliansorelianism6802 Před 2 lety +1

      Mussolini quotes, many after he became a fascist........
      "Marx was the greatest of all theorists of socialism."
      "Socialism has to remain a terrifying and a majestic thing. If we follow this line, we shall be able to face our enemies."
      "The law of socialism is that of the desert: a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye. Socialism is a rude and bitter truth, which was born in the conflict of opposing forces and in violence. Socialism is war, and woe to those who are cowardly in war. They will be defeated."
      "The root of our psychological weakness was this: We socialists have never examined the problems of nations. The International was never concerned with it. The International is dead, paralyzed by events. Ten million proletarians are today on the battlefield."
      "You cannot get rid of me because I am and always will be a socialist. You hate me because you still love me."
      "Do not believe, even for a moment, that by stripping me of my membership card you do the same to my Socialist beliefs, nor that you would restrain me of continuing to work in favor of Socialism and of the Revolution"
      "Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron. There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities."
      "I know the Communists. I know them because some of them are my children"
      "I shall defend this pact with all my strength, and if Fascism does not follow me in collaboration with the Socialists, at least no one can force me to follow Fascism."
      "Standing by me and helping my work as newspaper man were the Fascisti. They were composed of revolutionary spirits who believed in intervention. They were youths-the students of the universities, the socialist syndicalists-destroying faith in Karl Marx by their ideals."
      "It was inevitable that I should become a Socialist ultra, a Blanquist, indeed a communist. I carried about a medallion with Marx’s head on it in my pocket. I think I regarded it as a sort of talisman. Marx had a profound critical intelligence and was in some sense even a prophet."
      "I never felt that there was any conflict between my military duties and my Socialism. Why should not a good soldier be also a fighter in the class war?"
      "Italy is not a capitalist country according to the meaning now conventionally assigned to that term."
      "Three-fourths of the Italian economy, industrial and agricultural, is in the hands of the state. And if I dare to introduce to Italy state capitalism or state socialism, which is the reverse side of the medal, I will have the necessary subjective and objective conditions to do it."
      "It is no longer an economy aiming at individual profit, but economy concerned with collective interest."
      "When the war is over, in the world's social revolution that will be followed by a more equitable distribution of the earth's riches, due account must be kept of the sacrifices and of the discipline maintained by the Italian workers. The Fascist revolution will make another decisive step to shorten social distances."
      "Some still ask of us: what do you want? We answer with three words that summon up our entire program. Here they are…Italy, Republic, Socialization. . .Socialization is no other than the implantation of Italian Socialism"
      "For this I have been and am a socialist. The accusation of inconsistency has no foundation. My conduct has always been straight in the sense of looking at the substance of things and not to the form. I adapted socialisticamente to reality. As the evolution of society belied many of the prophecies of Marx, the true socialism folded from possible to probable. The only feasible socialism socialisticamente is corporatism, confluence, balance and justice interests compared to the collective interest."
      "I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts."

  • @norsetitan5776
    @norsetitan5776 Před 6 lety +243

    lol, the history of facism is censored using facist tactics. The Irony

    • @q-tip4723
      @q-tip4723 Před 6 lety +8

      Norse Titan
      It is quite ironic.

    • @MrGnario
      @MrGnario Před 6 lety +11

      Norse Titan it's not censored at all......... Like people know about. Gentile, it's just your uneducated ass listening to conspiracy theories to lower the general left side to create an "us against them" mentality

    • @norsetitan5776
      @norsetitan5776 Před 6 lety +10

      Egil heistad just that I brought up that it is repressed information doesn't mean that I am A) uneducated, and B) that it is not censored. It can still be censored, just that the information is available, doesn't mean it isn't censored. People can post videos or articles that can be taken down for having this information, and we wouldn't know about it, which is sort of the point of censorship.

    • @MrGnario
      @MrGnario Před 6 lety

      Norse Titan But if your taught it in school it pretty much means it's not censored doesn't it? And no you're probably well educated, that's why you think that there's a government conspiracy censoring and hiding information from the public to make the right seen facist even though they know themselves that THEY'RE THE FACIST... Sure....

    • @norsetitan5776
      @norsetitan5776 Před 6 lety +7

      I was never taught this information in school, and I didn't necessarily say that it's a government conspiracy, but more of individuals on the left as well as leftist media

  • @anomalyevolution40
    @anomalyevolution40 Před 4 lety +313

    Actually makes me laugh they call conservatives, the people who stand for small government and strong on the 2nd amendment fascist.

    • @nathijomac
      @nathijomac Před 4 lety +11

      The video makes the distinction of fascism too simplistic. For example, Fascism and Anarchism are complete opposites in some respects (Authoritarianism) but they're both considered far left. Fascism took hold in Germany due to the popularity of Nationalism, which is where the parallels to US conservatives come from.

    • @geekyradical4985
      @geekyradical4985 Před 4 lety +31

      If conservative stood for small government, wouldn't it be considered conservative to want the legalization of abortion and drugs?

    • @anomalyevolution40
      @anomalyevolution40 Před 4 lety +8

      @@geekyradical4985 yes and no. Do I want to syringes everywhere and more people with aids? Not at all. Legalize some drugs but not all of them. I have never really had a big problem with abortion. I think the right over reaches on this topic. I rather see them focus their efforts in teaching youth responsibility so they never have to make the choice in the first place. It's sad but it's not my problem or business. These two issues are nowhere near the same as the left issues with big government.

    • @geekyradical4985
      @geekyradical4985 Před 4 lety +20

      @@anomalyevolution40 Well, the point is that conservative just means reluctant to accept new ideas. Nothing to do with small government. Left wing's been defined by social equality and right wing by social hierarchy since the era of the French Revolution when those in the left wing of the National Assembly were in favour of revolution and justice for the people of the third estate while those in the right wing opposed the revolution and wanted to conserve the monarchy. Fascism's sort of the benchmark to which social hierarchy and inequality are measured. To claim that it isn't far-right would be blotting out reality.

    • @nathijomac
      @nathijomac Před 4 lety +2

      @@geekyradical4985 i think the connection is that, as you said, cons are reluctant to change, the US is capitalistic, capitalism/free market requires small gov't. Seems to me in the US (as an outsider) the left want gov't intervention economically, but liberation in their personal lives. Then the right want freedom/no involvement from the gov't, except when it comes to freedoms that go against their beliefs. Am I right in thinking the right are more religious?

  • @epicduck703
    @epicduck703 Před rokem +4

    I remember there was this slogan over 2020 “we are all in this together “ lol. hmmmm.

  • @Danny66455
    @Danny66455 Před 3 lety +7

    When you have fascism giving your side a bad name so you try to say it's from the other side even though it's not:

    • @adlibitum4048
      @adlibitum4048 Před 3 lety +2

      Who's side? He's a classical liberal, Fascism is against liberalism with a burning passion

    • @Abc-qq3pp
      @Abc-qq3pp Před 3 lety +1

      "Social democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism. These organisations (ie Fascism and social democracy) are not antipodes, they are twins."
      Joseph Stalin

    • @whomstdvent4844
      @whomstdvent4844 Před 3 lety

      Lol, he's not on our side. Classical liberals are even worse than Marxists

    • @rickandmortyclips101
      @rickandmortyclips101 Před 5 měsíci

      I don't think Marxists themselves are bad

  • @Aquila476
    @Aquila476 Před 4 lety +290

    I don't understand, when and why has being on the right mean you're automatically a racist? Racism shouldn't be a political ideology because ANYONE can be racist. Also racist countries are usually authoritative and emphasise government and state powers, unlike conservative values.

    • @dss345
      @dss345 Před 3 lety +8

      Damn, Arthur Morgan is now a political philosopher?

    • @Aquila476
      @Aquila476 Před 3 lety +7

      @@dss345 Yes, we should go back to the 1800's, I use to think the world was changin' back then, I don't even understand this.... machine I'm usin' !

    • @donaldrump71
      @donaldrump71 Před 3 lety +5

      True dat, but in general the left is more accepting.

    • @Aquila476
      @Aquila476 Před 3 lety +27

      @@donaldrump71 not of differing opinions though.

    • @geekyradical4985
      @geekyradical4985 Před 3 lety +3

      Well, one isn't necessarily like Donald Trump if one's right wing, but left wing's been defined by social equality and right wing by social hierarchy since the era of the French Revolution when those in the left wing of the National Assembly were in favour of revolution and justice for the people of the third estate while those in the right wing opposed the revolution and wanted to conserve the monarchy. Racism contradicts social equality.

  • @brogers1ful
    @brogers1ful Před 4 lety +187

    Someone find a solution for his glasses on the screen

    • @x10mark24
      @x10mark24 Před 4 lety +6

      what are you talking about? it improves the watching experience

    • @jimf1964
      @jimf1964 Před 4 lety +4

      Does it have anything to do with the discussion?

    • @bebisibeb
      @bebisibeb Před 4 lety +4

      @@jimf1964 no

    • @toddnolastname4485
      @toddnolastname4485 Před 3 lety +1

      If he stopped turning his head so often, it wouldn't have been a problem.

    • @SW-zx3op
      @SW-zx3op Před 3 lety +2

      Have him wear contact lenses while recording. Then in post-production, motion track his head to apply CGI specks that augment onto his face. Easy.

  • @gcs7817
    @gcs7817 Před rokem +4

    Blood and soil
    We exist as the lifeblood of the state
    Strong adherence to military
    Hyper masculinity and strict gender roles
    Clinging to a nostalgia of a mythical past when the state was strong
    All citizens serve the state (collectivism)
    The state and the individual are one
    The narrator here is wrong that fascism isn’t a right wing ideology. It may incorporate some ideas of leftism like collectivism, but the rest is straight up conservative

    • @funkfamily4165
      @funkfamily4165 Před 8 měsíci

      Nearly every definition you used is a form of collectivist thinking. Conservatives believe the rights of the individual trumps the state's "right" to dictate policy. The political Left believes the opposite. It is by default totalitarian.

  • @JoaquinCampana1998
    @JoaquinCampana1998 Před rokem +7

    I'm pretty sure fascism is based on three core factors:
    - Overly-patriotic, nationalism taken to the extreme (or as you know, Ultranationalism)
    - Totalitarian government which controls every single aspect
    - Overly-reactionary and aggressive stances against things like LGBT, feminism, immigration, globalization, secularism, etc...
    So let's ask which type of people can qualify for those factors: the Left or the Right?
    I stand corrected.

    • @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.
      @Historia.Magistra.Vitae. Před rokem +3

      @Joaquin Campana: So cial ists would qualify.

    • @GeneralDonato
      @GeneralDonato Před rokem +2

      @@Historia.Magistra.Vitae. - Socialists are internationalists not ultranationalists
      - They're very open to societal topics like immigration, secularism, globalization, etc...
      - The only thing true about them is authoritarian government
      I think you're speaking about yourself.
      -

    • @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.
      @Historia.Magistra.Vitae. Před rokem +1

      ​@@GeneralDonato : ​ Wou ld like to point out that only m arxis ts are in ter natio nalist. Soc iali sm does not c are either way. So cia lism only car es about who owns the me ans of produ ction, distribution, and exchange.

    • @Naris48
      @Naris48 Před rokem

      @@Historia.Magistra.Vitae. No, Socialists are opposed to such things.

    • @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.
      @Historia.Magistra.Vitae. Před rokem +1

      @@Naris48 : Not every so ciali st.

  • @AdmiralBonetoPick
    @AdmiralBonetoPick Před 3 lety +194

    "For me all these names of Left and Right, of Conservative, Aristocracy and Democracy are so many empty academic terms. They serve occasionally to distinguish, but more often to confuse." - Benito Mussolini, 27 November 1922

    • @BS-bd4xo
      @BS-bd4xo Před 2 lety +35

      Based Mussolini.
      Can't believe I'm saying this

    • @panafricanismstrikesback
      @panafricanismstrikesback Před rokem +1

      @@BS-bd4xo you're not too bright. Politics is all about what other people think of you. It's the opposite of "Based".

    • @CaesarAnubis0858
      @CaesarAnubis0858 Před rokem +2

      Based Musso

    • @FM-dm8xj
      @FM-dm8xj Před rokem +3

      His talking about the left and right in europe, not AMERICA. But good deflection!

    • @atb_ty8785
      @atb_ty8785 Před rokem +3

      @@FM-dm8xj either way it’s the same shit everywhere for the most part throwing around words with no real meaning to hide true intentions

  • @kasunex1772
    @kasunex1772 Před 4 lety +386

    I like how this video doesn't bring up that fascism was adopted as a reactionary measure against Marxism, and that the Nazis in particular would have considered themselves anti communists first and foremost.

    • @obviouslykaleb7998
      @obviouslykaleb7998 Před 4 lety +24

      The term “terf” was made up to insult otherwise radical feminists that don’t believe in transgenderism.
      Joe Rogan, who is (IMO) center/center-left has been called a “gateway to the alt right” for nothing more than differing in opinion.
      Those who call themselves the “far right,” though I personally haven’t met any, have been reported to hate standard conservatives.
      Likewise, wouldn’t fascism (which I would dare to say is a slightly more moderate {if altered} form of socialism) hate communism because of the latter’s lack of currency, eventual dissolution of the government and focus on class, among other things?
      The saying “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” is wrong. Particularly in political cases when one believes the other will bring the country in ruin.
      The logic concludes therefore; being left and hating left wingers is a possibility.
      More than a possibility, it’s an inevitability.

    • @kasunex1772
      @kasunex1772 Před 4 lety +78

      @@obviouslykaleb7998 "Disliking" and "basing your entire ideology around hating" are not one and the same. In particular, Hitler would have considered communism the primary enemy of Germany. The war in Western Europe was more about resources, revenge for WW1, and getting France and Britain out of the way. The main goal all along was the Soviet Union.
      Anyways. The comment I made was just one point of many that this video completely ignores. But the biggest and most central flaw is a complete and utter misunderstanding of what the difference between left and right even is. The left seeks equality, whereas the right seeks hierarchy. Communism is left wing because it aims to eliminate social inequality. Communists would argue that a poor man in Germany and a poor man in Russia have more in common than a rich man and poor man does in Germany or Russia. Fascism is right wing because it seeks to enforce a hierarchy of racial and national superiority. The Nazi end goal was the subjugation or death of all "inferior races" - quite a change of tune from the communist objective of everyone holding hands and singing kumbya in a stateless, classless utopia. Fascists believe that racial and national differences are inherit and inferior races and nations are holding the superior ones back. Communists believe that race, nation, and class are equally artificial and used by the powers that be to keep them in power. These two views are, to put it bluntly, diametrically opposed.
      This video implies a belief that the difference between right and left is that the right believes in freedom whereas the left believes in control, but this is a Reagan-era misconception born from a US-centric view of politics. That is actually the difference between libertarianism and authoritarianism, both of which have left and right wing variants. The conflation of these terms ties together the Republican coalition, but it is dangerous, as it goes with the subtle implication that as long as something is "right wing", there is no extreme, whereas if something is "left wing", it is inherently problematic. This is an extremely dangerous sentiment that could very well recreate fascism in the future, as it is the logic by which fascism arose in the first place.
      Those who don't understand history are doomed to repeat it.

    • @mysteriousmuffin6017
      @mysteriousmuffin6017 Před 4 lety +44

      Thank you. You appear to be one of the few in this comment section that has an actual understanding of fascism’s beliefs and origins.

    • @nandorblue
      @nandorblue Před 4 lety +70

      ​@@kasunex1772 The right doesn't believe in hierarchy of racial superiority. That is just another leftist lie. I was born and raised in a former communist Country. The Soviets believed in their Russian version of Communism forcing us Eastern Europeans (I'm Hungarian) to learn Russian (yes it was mandatory) and learning about Russian culture as superior people and leaders. That was racial superiority galore shoved down on our throat. The Left is the one who believes in hierarchy of classes and nations so they placed communist Russians on the pedestals. Communism killed 20 million In Eastern Europe alone! Yes thanks to the Left in the name of equality we were equal alright in our socialist commie country but equally oppressed and poor. Oppression and killing in the name of hierarchy is the phenomenon of the Left. You need to learn history.

    • @kasunex1772
      @kasunex1772 Před 4 lety +26

      @@nandorblue I have a degree in history, good sir. And the rest of what you're saying here makes no sense.

  • @SpongescrubGames
    @SpongescrubGames Před 3 lety +12

    I love to see a PragerU video where Communism is being labeled right with the same mental gymnastics as in this video.

    • @sonysoldier9587
      @sonysoldier9587 Před 3 lety +5

      Actually, they said Communism is left wing, which is one of the only things that they are right about. But if it's an ideology PragerU hates, then it's automatically consider left wing.

    • @tstbad59
      @tstbad59 Před 3 lety

      According to them, libertarianism is a left wing communist ideology, in stead of a centrist, pro-freedom ideology.

    • @pierreprtn4059
      @pierreprtn4059 Před 3 lety

      if you want peak mental gymnastic go watch the video on robert e lee

    • @tstbad59
      @tstbad59 Před 3 lety

      @@pierreprtn4059 what is the exact title

    • @pierreprtn4059
      @pierreprtn4059 Před 3 lety

      @@tstbad59 czcams.com/video/N839Z38w_AU/video.html
      here the link to a re upload since it was so bad they removed it from the channel

  • @gho5trun3r68
    @gho5trun3r68 Před 2 dny +2

    This is some serious poltical laundering

  • @thatdude5572
    @thatdude5572 Před 5 lety +12

    if the nazis were socialists than why did corporations like topf and sons (töpf & söhne) and volkswagen play such an important role in germanys economy and war effort? Those privately owned companies would not have existed under socialism

    • @HermanWillems
      @HermanWillems Před 5 lety +5

      The Nazi's had a socialist name. They where socialists.(before the change) But the party transformed into extreme right wing fascism. But they kept the name...

    • @factsoverfeelings1776
      @factsoverfeelings1776 Před 5 lety +1

      Herman Willems Did you not watch the video?

    • @jonathand3842
      @jonathand3842 Před 5 lety +3

      @@HermanWillems totally agree they were socialist in the beginning to win support from all the population and it worked, then they transformed into totalitarianism and far right wing ideology.

    • @TheBuzzo01
      @TheBuzzo01 Před 4 lety

      @Cloud William
      25/5000
      Nazis were racists. right wing Nazis were Christians right wing Nazis were anti unions right wing Nazis were anti feminists right wing Nazis were capitalists Nazis were anti communists right wing the Nazis were authoritarian.who says that left-wing fascism is either totally stupid or lying

    • @zissimoskalarrytis3865
      @zissimoskalarrytis3865 Před 4 lety +1

      Klaus Menendez because the knew that Nazism would fight communism, something that would be fatal to these corporations

  • @Lejmej
    @Lejmej Před 6 lety +269

    History is a interesting thing.....

    • @genejohnson3625
      @genejohnson3625 Před 6 lety +1

      Björn Westman yeah it is and to modern conservatives, it starts at the enlightenment.

    • @JayPfo
      @JayPfo Před 6 lety +13

      yeah it is, conservatives should read more of it so they know what theyre talking about

    • @flamefusion8963
      @flamefusion8963 Před 6 lety +44

      JayPfo seems like recently it has always been left wingers trying to censor inconvient history.

    • @BaresarkSlayne
      @BaresarkSlayne Před 6 lety +7

      We need to acknowledge that none of us KNOW history. We know of events, we know of writing that historically famous people have written and published, we know philosophical concepts, but we don't know anything really about times in which no modern person has lived and experienced. For example, if you were to put together all of my writing in comments over the years (what a nightmare that would be), you would think some very strange things about me that likely aren't true. But all of that would be through the lens of someone who has a certain idea of their own about things that happened today. No one can know what my full opinion is on anything because you simply can't know that.

    • @nelsonx5326
      @nelsonx5326 Před 6 lety +2

      Especially when you're in the middle of it.

  • @adammac6386
    @adammac6386 Před 3 lety +10

    Won't learn this at school.

    • @florianhock4155
      @florianhock4155 Před 3 lety +4

      because its BS

    • @florianhock4155
      @florianhock4155 Před 3 lety +2

      @Jacob Lee I am living in a country where the christian catholic conservative party established a fascist dictatorship.
      It is called Austrofascism and if you would learn something in school you would not have to rely on such stupid videos

    • @florianhock4155
      @florianhock4155 Před 3 lety

      @Jacob Lee Austria the name of the dictator was Engelbert Dolfuß look it up

    • @zephyr1018
      @zephyr1018 Před 3 lety

      @@florianhock4155 like you

    • @florianhock4155
      @florianhock4155 Před 3 lety

      @Julius Seizure If they would do, people would not be falling for such a bad propaganda

  • @tomcruise7095
    @tomcruise7095 Před 3 lety +10

    Technically everyone is a fascist, everyone is against something and wants it gone, no matter what it may be so there for everyone is a fascist.

    • @jrno93
      @jrno93 Před 3 lety

      no really. before the left started killing raping everybody since trump was inaugurated conservatives were chill and friendly now they're just fed up with the left and everything so I guess yeah now everyone including the right are fascist. but it was mainly the lefts fault for making us crazy

    • @tomcruise7095
      @tomcruise7095 Před 3 lety

      @@jrno93 oh I know, you are 100% spot on and the sad thing is I don't think it will ever stop now it seems it will go on forever, because the left have shown their true face and they will never in a million years side with a Republican and even though if the democrats had a decent guy in who wasn't full blown left Republicans would support him or her in a way, but the left will always spew vile at anyone on the right and that seems to be their religion now. The fact is the left has changed now they want socialism, they have no idea how truly screwed their lives would be with it to. They are essentially traitors.

    • @rainbowlemniscate2761
      @rainbowlemniscate2761 Před 3 lety

      Hey guys, thanks for outing yourselves as fascists, but just speak for yourselves, okay, not all of us are nazis

  • @troyschulz2318
    @troyschulz2318 Před 6 lety +539

    Neither. Ask a fascist.

    • @killthecensors58
      @killthecensors58 Před 6 lety +27

      Finally!

    • @killthecensors58
      @killthecensors58 Před 6 lety +59

      +Kreacher's Oddysey
      How on earth can you not see how silly that statement is? PragerU HATES Fascism and thus will slander it in any way they can. They also officially oppose "leftism" so they will call it left wing because they are biased against it.
      Why not ask a leftist what fascism is? Oh yeah right, because the leftist is biased against fascism too and they will tell you it's right wing because they are biased against fascism and right wing-ism.
      Think. Use your brain. PragerU is a biased source. Sheesh.

    • @slenderman27490
      @slenderman27490 Před 6 lety +15

      Parger mental gymnastics

    • @larryhouchin295
      @larryhouchin295 Před 6 lety +30

      Exactly. Fascism is third positionism

    • @limitlessapocalypse2702
      @limitlessapocalypse2702 Před 6 lety +5

      Sting Sniperscope im a fascist, Im neither left or right, im centered

  • @xandermurdock6131
    @xandermurdock6131 Před 6 lety +298

    Y'all don't seem to know what fascism actually is.

    • @revolutionaryspirit4491
      @revolutionaryspirit4491 Před 5 lety +91

      Because they try and fit it into the left/right dichotomy despite it being third way politics, this is where they get it wrong. Fascism is economically left and culturally right wing.

    • @revolutionaryspirit4491
      @revolutionaryspirit4491 Před 5 lety +36

      Well, it depends on who's vision of Fascism you use. In reality fascism doesn't have a set economic system, the binding principle of fascism is whatever is best for the nation AND the people and that both should work in tandem. Fascism allows for many varieties.

    • @lordlammi1562
      @lordlammi1562 Před 5 lety +2

      Or leftism.

    • @kvphotograph
      @kvphotograph Před 5 lety +11

      Fascism
      Fascism is a form of radical authoritarian ultranationalism, characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and strong regimentation of society and of the economy, which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe. Wikipedia
      I think he hit the proverbial nail on the head!

    • @cassianandor4103
      @cassianandor4103 Před 5 lety +15

      PragerU never seems to know what *anything* is really.

  • @dodieodie498
    @dodieodie498 Před 2 lety +4

    Due to the internet, the State has been enabled to exercise more control than ever before.

  • @codyallen9486
    @codyallen9486 Před 3 lety +1

    Jeopardy had fascism coming from the right. I strongly disagreed.

  • @MrCalimero
    @MrCalimero Před 4 lety +261

    I wonder where those almost 8000 dislikes came from. Looks like they don't want to hear the truth!

    • @a_lucientes
      @a_lucientes Před 4 lety +13

      problem bc fascism has nothing to do with left wing of the political spectrum but the extreme right. Youre better watching something like Khan Academy.

    • @MrCalimero
      @MrCalimero Před 4 lety +30

      @@a_lucientes Have you even watched the video?

    • @a_lucientes
      @a_lucientes Před 4 lety +12

      @@MrCalimero The video is cartoonish and made for uneducated simpletons. Anyone who thinks the Nazis (or the Italian Fascists, -with whom Gentile had no affinity or gave any support to. The man was a liberal Idealist) had anything to do with Socialism bc they co-opted the name, just doesnt know what theyre talking about. Sure, they had some social programs but the Nazis were staunchly anti-union. The so-called great German economic miracle was funded by elite westerners, like Morgan and Ford, who felt that the Nazis could function as a bulwark against the spread of Bolshevism into Europe.
      Political science and philosophy is complex. That Gentile wrote on the Philosophy hardly makes him a Marxist. He was not even a supporter of Mussolini. His works have not been translated into English, but that aside, we know what Fascism is through its actions -and that doesnt change whether you call it Neoliberalism or Neoconservatism. (and has exactly noting to do with the so-called Left. ie. Sosiclaism.

    • @guyvert49
      @guyvert49 Před 4 lety +19

      I have this all the time with Socialists. Stalin could not admit to fighting other socialists, so he branded Fascists right-wing. The victor gets to write history, so anything right of Stalin is fascist. That propaganda has stuck

    • @BrianFejer
      @BrianFejer Před 4 lety

      @@MrCalimero Here in reality, Far-right politics are politics further on the right of the left-right spectrum than the standard political right, particularly in terms of extreme nationalism,[1][2] nativist ideologies, and authoritarian tendencies. The term is often used to describe Nazism,[4] neo-Nazism, fascism, neo-fascism and other ideologies or organizations that feature ultranationalist, chauvinist, xenophobic, racist, anti-communist, or reactionary views.[5] These can lead to oppression, violence, forced assimilation, ethnic cleansing, and even genocide against groups of people based on their supposed inferiority, or their perceived threat to the native ethnic group,[6][7] nation, state[8], national religion, dominant culture or ultraconservative traditional social institutions

  • @ronaldregan3934
    @ronaldregan3934 Před 4 lety +208

    But we should remember because the ghost of fascism will haunt us. That hit me hard.

    • @nobodyatall6620
      @nobodyatall6620 Před 4 lety +14

      Boo

    • @purplelemon3987
      @purplelemon3987 Před 4 lety +8

      haha fascism bad

    • @nobodyatall6620
      @nobodyatall6620 Před 4 lety +20

      @@purplelemon3987
      "Let me get this straight, you think that fascism is good?"
      "I do, and I'm tired of pretending it's not"

    • @Poglavnit_Pferdefuhrer
      @Poglavnit_Pferdefuhrer Před 4 lety +2

      *_Don't be dumb, be a smarty, come and join the One America party!_*

    • @purplelemon3987
      @purplelemon3987 Před 4 lety +6

      @@nobodyatall6620 I mean yeah. Name one bad thing about fascism. And no, "human rights violations" isn't a bad thing.

  • @bwhog
    @bwhog Před 10 měsíci +4

    Why do people call a micromanager a "fascist"? Because that's what Fascists do, they involve themselves in literally every affair of their subjects.

  • @jrno93
    @jrno93 Před 3 lety +45

    who in their right mind would want big government? that's like always having your boss breathing down your neck 24/7 screaming at you and nit picking for every little thing.

    • @aldrinferrer1813
      @aldrinferrer1813 Před 3 lety +5

      This fool doesn't know what people would give to feel secure.

    • @PremierCCGuyMMXVI
      @PremierCCGuyMMXVI Před 3 lety +20

      Having the government provide the people services doesn’t make it a dictatorship.
      Do note, the countries with the biggest welfare programs (Mostly in Europe) have the highest scores of Democracy in the world too. (I wonder why?)
      Also Joe Biden is far from a socialist considering he’s done many things that piss off progressives.
      Also like how you compare Stalin with Biden when they have almost nothing in common. And if your comparing Biden with Stalin than it’s justified to compare Trump with Hitler.

    • @aldrinferrer1813
      @aldrinferrer1813 Před 3 lety +3

      @@PremierCCGuyMMXVI what are you on about? are you high or something?

    • @PremierCCGuyMMXVI
      @PremierCCGuyMMXVI Před 3 lety +5

      @@aldrinferrer1813 how?
      I was taking to the comment above. No big government isn’t always bad. And their username is wrong.

    • @aldrinferrer1813
      @aldrinferrer1813 Před 3 lety +1

      @@PremierCCGuyMMXVI ohhhh didn't notice it when i commented months ago, he maybe changed his name.

  • @halgaci
    @halgaci Před 6 lety +44

    I think the problem of this video is the attempt to analyze Fascism under the political language of the United States. Both left and right of the American society are too far away from Fascism, even the "ideology" of KKK is totally different from Fascism.

    • @damoclesecoe7184
      @damoclesecoe7184 Před 6 lety +5

      I'd have to agree with that assessment. It's incredibly easy to construe something said/done by either side as fascist.

    • @aaronlandry3934
      @aaronlandry3934 Před 6 lety +15

      Horus T'an True, but this video is more a response to “Fascist” being used as a right slur, though it applies much more to the left’s love of socialism and bigger government.

    • @timvanrijn8239
      @timvanrijn8239 Před 6 lety

      American prespective.
      I wount ask then to take international view point

    • @mrgoldfish7452
      @mrgoldfish7452 Před 6 lety +3

      He uses the name of the Nazi party as "evidence" that fascism and socialism are the same even though they are polar opposites with one being inclusive (socialism) and the other being xenophobic and racist (fascism).

    • @timvanrijn8239
      @timvanrijn8239 Před 6 lety

      uam sorry but the nazies did have an extencive socialist program. but it was exlusive to pure born germans. you might not wanne lable that as true socialisme and its not. but the name national-socialist is not inacurate. in some ways the nazi implimeted socialisme the most effectively. by investing heavly in jobs and infrastucture. the great diffrence comes in high tarifs and the privatization of national companies.
      national-socialist

  • @jamsch5692
    @jamsch5692 Před 6 lety +98

    Do the workers own the means of production? No? lol

    • @edwardbackman744
      @edwardbackman744 Před 6 lety +23

      Mao Zedong no, you see, all socialism really is is big government. Socialism is where the government does stuff and the more stuff it does the socialistier it is and if it does a whole lot of stuff then it’s communism.

    • @Hatypus
      @Hatypus Před 6 lety +1

      Edward Backman and you are wrong as socialism is an economic model which some ideologies follow hence names like "democratic socialists", "populist socialists" and the like. Workers owning the means of production is usually something communists would have and fascism is neither left nor right nor centrist but rather and alternative ideal

    • @jamsch5692
      @jamsch5692 Před 6 lety +22

      It was a joke, Edward Backman was talking shit on Cenk Uygur but no you are wrong workers ownership of the means of production is socialism. Communism is stateless and also the goal of most socialists. Idiots like Bernie calling themselfes "democratic socialist" are not socialist but social democrates. Fascism is far right, it is a ultra conservative ,reactionary and have private property.

    • @ethanfoo9154
      @ethanfoo9154 Před 6 lety

      Edward Backman communism is an ideology that supports socialism, socialism is an economic model which allows the workers to "gain" what they have earned from labour by giving their earnings to the government to distribute them, and that can lead to some problems but yeah.

    • @mrbentom09
      @mrbentom09 Před 6 lety +1

      Drake democratic socialism is a term that got misused a lot by bernie sanders. Theres a big difference between democratic socialism and social democracy. Social democracy is what bernie campaigns for nd what exists in scandinavia (free college, healthcare, progressive taxing etc.) But it is still firmly a capitalist ideology. Democratic socialism on the other hand is a socialist ideaology where the workers do own the means of production and private property is abolished, but there is still a democratically elected government.
      Facism is to the left of the US and most capitalist countries including scandinavian ones, but it still remains on the right overall since the workers do not own the means of production, distribution and exchange and private property still exists.

  • @deutscheblitzkrieg
    @deutscheblitzkrieg Před 3 lety +4

    What's wrong with Fascism? Nothing!

    • @4tbf616
      @4tbf616 Před rokem

      Actually, its the fact that it kills people whom it sees as undesirable, not criminals, not stupid people, but jews, blacks, gypsies, slavs...
      You may have noticed a common theme here.
      Its that they kill you based on things *you cant choose*
      If you're black, can you choose to become white? No.

  • @Naris48
    @Naris48 Před rokem +6

    There are 14 Characteristics of Fascism.
    1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
    Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
    2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
    Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of “need.” The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, and long incarcerations of prisoners.
    3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
    The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists…
    5. Supremacy of the Military
    Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
    5. Rampant Sexism
    The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and anti-gay legislation.
    6. Controlled Mass Media
    Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation or by sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Government censorship and secrecy, especially in war time, are very common.
    7. Obsession with National Security
    Fear of hostile foreign powers is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
    8. Religion and Government are Intertwined
    Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government’s policies or actions.
    9. Protection of Corporate Power
    The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
    10. Suppression of Labor Power
    Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed .
    11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
    Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.
    12, Obsession with Crime and Punishment
    Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
    13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
    Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
    14. Fraudulent Elections
    Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.

    • @_Historia.Magistra.Vitae.
      @_Historia.Magistra.Vitae. Před rokem

      @Murray Wilson : These have very little to do with fa scis m, and very much to do with every dic tat ori al country in existence. These "characteristics" are the zod iac signs of poli tics.

    • @Naris48
      @Naris48 Před rokem

      @@_Historia.Magistra.Vitae. Again you show your idiocy. Yes, these very much are characteristics of Fascism. They are NOT "the zod iac signs of poli tics"!
      While many of these points are indeed aligned with dictators, one of the defining characteristics of Fascism is that they are headed by an all powerful dictator, therefore many of the characteristics of fascism are also characteristics of dictators. However, not all dictators are Fascists, some are Monarchs or fall elsewhere politically.

    • @_Historia.Magistra.Vitae.
      @_Historia.Magistra.Vitae. Před rokem

      @@Naris48 : Again, they have very little to do with fascism. If you want to know about the characteristics of fascism instead of generic characteristics of dictatorship, I highly suggest you go and read some proper history, starting from "the doctrine of fascism" by Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile. Fascism didn't even have a dictator. Mussolini was a Prime Minister, subservient to the King of Italy.

    • @Naris48
      @Naris48 Před rokem

      ​@@_Historia.Magistra.Vitae. Yes, they have EVERYTHIGN to do with Fascism! Why do you insist on denying reality? Mussolini was indeed a dictator, he claimed as much in 1925 when he seized power. Adolf Hitler was another Fascist dictator. The King of Italy became a figurehead after Mussolini's seized power, although the King was effectively reinstated when Mussolini was ousted in 1943 since the war was going very badly for Italy.
      I suggest you read Umberto Eco and Lawrence Britt so you can get a clue.

    • @_Historia.Magistra.Vitae.
      @_Historia.Magistra.Vitae. Před rokem

      @@Naris48 : Again, the reality is that those "characteristics" are describing generic dictatorship and could be applied to countries such as Venezuela, Cuba, China, North Korea, USSR and many others which have nothing to do with fas cis m whatsoever. By the definition of the word, Mussolini was not a proper dictator since he did not have all the power in Italy, unlike Hit ler had in Germany. Also Hit ler was not a fa sci st, he was a nati onal soc iali st. When it comes to Umberto Eco, he is as useless as your posted vague characteristics list.

  • @Ev1lLion
    @Ev1lLion Před 4 lety +134

    0:23 for a moment I thought the "R" standed for team Rocket😅

  • @IvanFelipeTW
    @IvanFelipeTW Před 6 lety +243

    We gotta stop using left and right and start to use the 8 values

    • @rootbeerdrinker609
      @rootbeerdrinker609 Před 6 lety +6

      8 Values, and what would be the names of those, if you don't mind me asking.

    • @IvanFelipeTW
      @IvanFelipeTW Před 6 lety +55

      FlappingSeal Equality or FreeMarket, Authority or Liberty, Nation or World and Progress or tradition

    • @lordlammi1562
      @lordlammi1562 Před 6 lety +11

      I for the most part agree, but we should find other values to add to the spectrum as well. The more complex, the better.

    • @SkollTheWerewolf
      @SkollTheWerewolf Před 6 lety +18

      Extreme left, radical left, left wing, left leaning - Right leaning, Right Wing, Radical right, Extreme right.
      Honestly though, Those on the right don't exactly have a whole lot of extremists, and the difference between the right and the left is that the left puts for their extremists as these "war heroes" sent out to "FREE US ALL!" Where as conservatives HATE their extremists, because those individuals make us look like fools.

    • @bulletbill1104
      @bulletbill1104 Před 6 lety +3

      Ivan FTW 8 values is stupid. I suggest Politiscales

  • @johnhummel99
    @johnhummel99 Před rokem +1

    It's centrist leaning either right or left depending on the nationalistic views

  • @Naris48
    @Naris48 Před rokem +10

    Fascism is a dictatorial form of political ideology. Socialism, on the other hand, is an ideology where individuals of a society own the means of production. A fascist ruler wields supreme power and authority over a country. In contrast, rulers of socialist nations distribute power and authority among the states.
    A dictator does not tolerate any criticism, opposition, or rebellion; freedom of speech takes a back seat. Compared to fascist regimes, socialist states allow more freedom of speech. Dictators control industries; but in socialist states, the ownership of the means of production lies with the public sector.

    • @jorgei57
      @jorgei57 Před rokem

      Your indoctrination is totally visible, on thing is the concept of socialism and other is the historical results of socialism .

    • @Naris48
      @Naris48 Před rokem

      ​@@jorgei57 Wow, you are claiming I'm the one that is indoctrinated? Clearly you are the one that has been indoctrinated by right wing propaganda and have no clue what Socialism even is. You seem to be indicating that the "historical results of socialism", probably referring to countries like the Soviet Union, North Korea, Cuba and China, which are all well known communist nations that became Totalitarian (not socialist countries, even though Communism is an extreme form of Socialism, it is NOT the only form of Socialism).
      The world is not strictly Black and White. Most Ideologies, including Socialism and Capitalism, are not defined by the extreme ends. Socialism has a lot of forms that are NOT Communism, such as what is found in Norway and the other Nordic countries.
      Claiming that ALL Socialist nations, and Socialism itself, are Communist is like saying that all forms of Capitalism are Fascist (Which, yes, Fascism is indeed a right-wing ideology that incorporates Capitalism).

    • @Naris48
      @Naris48 Před rokem

      @@jorgei57 Also, the point of my post was to show that Fascism is NOTHING LIKE Socialism. Fascism is DEFINATELY NOT a form of Socialism as the video claims. Words mean things and facts (reality) matters -- you can't ignore them just because you have been indoctrinated by right wing propaganda, which this video is.

    • @_Historia.Magistra.Vitae.
      @_Historia.Magistra.Vitae. Před rokem

      @Murray Wilson: Hate to burst your bubble, but fa sc is m was a form of (state) soc ial ism.

    • @Naris48
      @Naris48 Před rokem

      @@_Historia.Magistra.Vitae. Hate to burst your bubble, but fasc is m was never a form of (state) soc ial ism! You are showing your cluelessness by denying reality and parroting right-wing propaganda.

  • @miguelalmeida9771
    @miguelalmeida9771 Před 4 lety +60

    Understanding politics as right and left is stupid
    Also Gentile wasnt a marxist he was a hegelian
    And facists belived in class colaborationism instead of class struggle

    • @dantecristero
      @dantecristero Před 4 lety +1

      What it feels to be a nazi in 2020?

    • @pedrodurand8401
      @pedrodurand8401 Před 3 lety +1

      Yet facist believed in the struggle between nations and in the case of Nazism in the struggle of races. I also may add that Marx himself was also a hegelian. Finally the distinction between political right and left is very useful for simple discussions and to facilitate the distinction between different political ideologies

    • @victorradial1179
      @victorradial1179 Před 3 lety

      You're considering the thing to you know from hegelianism? like romans family represent state? because even that confirm us what's the point.

    • @victorradial1179
      @victorradial1179 Před 3 lety

      Hengels (Hegelian) you're stupid

  • @trevorgrindz5556
    @trevorgrindz5556 Před 4 lety +84

    All it took was me reading the first page of the laughable Antifa handbook to understand that they stand for everything they are supposed to be against.

    • @spaceclown7650
      @spaceclown7650 Před 4 lety +7

      Those illiterates have a handbook? Who wrote it for them?

    • @federicodiaz6880
      @federicodiaz6880 Před 4 lety +13

      Their flag is the same colours as nazi flag

    • @federicodiaz6880
      @federicodiaz6880 Před 4 lety

      @@spaceclown7650 the Sao Paulo Forum

    • @ulflundman8356
      @ulflundman8356 Před 4 lety +2

      Yes Antifa-idea was Stalins, to him all opposing him was fascism, like the cnvinced cmmunist Trotskij he killed all he had the leas doubt about, and he called west-Euroe fascist build the Irn Curtain and inspired Ulbrecht to buid the antifascistwall of Berlin, then Soviet has paid Billions to corrupt, green, peace- and leftist organisations in the West as tod by GDR "CIA"-boss Manfred Wolf in the 90:ies.Mst of all the "Antifa" Just to sew split into the western world.. Would be interesting to track where the money has gone?

    • @ulflundman8356
      @ulflundman8356 Před 4 lety +2

      yES they are almost as mislead as US-americans nationalistscalling themselves nazis carrying swastikas not realizing that it is the symbol of USA's worst enemy ever, -Hitler. he was for the ageman "race", certainly not a mixture of english, french and spanish as the US population and Liberalism an freedom was evil in his mind!US needs better schools!

  • @bleemwisspillow8686
    @bleemwisspillow8686 Před rokem +19

    It's almost like Dinesh didn't read any Gentile and just made stuff up. "The Doctrine of Fascism," the thing he wrote with Mussolini, is only like 10 pages. It talks about fascism being a "negation" of socialism, how class struggle is dumb, and they even call fascism a right-leaning theory.
    But, yeah, I guess just believe Dinesh.

    • @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.
      @Historia.Magistra.Vitae. Před rokem +2

      @Bleem Wisspillow: _"It talks about fa sci sm being a "negation" of soc ialis m"_
      Incorrect. It talks about fa scism being a negation of marxism, not soc ialis m.
      _"Such a conception of life makes Fasc ism the resolute negation of the doctrine underlying so-called scientific and Marxi an sociali sm, the doctrine of historic materialism which would explain the history of mankind in terms of the class struggle and by changes in the processes and instruments of production, to the exclusion of all else."_

    • @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.
      @Historia.Magistra.Vitae. Před rokem +3

      @Bleem Wisspillow: _"is only like 10 pages."_
      Around double that actually ... then there are additional writings by Giova nni Ge ntile.

    • @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.
      @Historia.Magistra.Vitae. Před rokem +4

      @Bleem Wisspillow: _"and they even call fa sci sm a rig ht-lea ning theory."_
      Incorrect. They say "fas cis m is tending to the rig ht" ... rig ht from m arxi sm that is. Still doesn't leave the sphere of so cial ism.
      _"Granted that the XIXth century was the century of socia lism, libe ralism, democracy, this does not mean that the XXth century must also be the century of so cialism, liberalism, democracy. Political doctrines pass; nations remain. We are free to believe that this is the century of authority, a century tending to the " right ", a Fas cist century. If the XIXth century was the century of the individual (libera lism implies individu alism) we are free to believe that this is the "colle ctive" century, and therefore the century of the St ate."_

    • @FM-dm8xj
      @FM-dm8xj Před rokem

      I love how you couldnt refute a single point.

    • @paradigm-gauge
      @paradigm-gauge Před měsícem

      It is only left wing in America's context, because the US constitution was designed to de-centralize power. It is right wing with respect to the Fascist Party in Italy once in power, because they wanted to fiercely conserve the totalitarian nature of their state.

  • @devonschindler1406
    @devonschindler1406 Před 3 lety +6

    Is this the Right's slightly more eloquent version of "iT's NoT rEaL sOcIaLiSm!!"?

  • @waaghghazghkull6362
    @waaghghazghkull6362 Před 6 lety +261

    Fascism is a third position.Not right or left but Authoritarian Center.

    • @deadaccount3535
      @deadaccount3535 Před 6 lety +22

      Not really, facism is more right leaning authoritarian and Communism is more left leaning authoritarian. But both are shit unspurisingly.

    • @waaghghazghkull6362
      @waaghghazghkull6362 Před 6 lety +25

      The problem with Fascism though is that it combines too much of the left to be truly right leaning. That is why it is called the third position since it combines a bit of the left and a bit of the right.

    • @CalebGooch23
      @CalebGooch23 Před 6 lety +13

      Branston Torr what part of the right is in fascism? Fascism is specifically the government controlling all resources and what you can and cannot do and can and cannot say. The Right wants to limit the government as much as possible and the left wants more of it! It’s that simple

    • @waaghghazghkull6362
      @waaghghazghkull6362 Před 6 lety +7

      The Crazed Maniac Nationalism.

    • @wisemankugelmemicus1701
      @wisemankugelmemicus1701 Před 6 lety

      The Crazed Maniac Nationalism, a Mixed Market System, Authoritarianism, Pro/Neo-Monarchism. Basically everything that Fascism stands for .

  • @profanitymanatee4039
    @profanitymanatee4039 Před 6 lety +43

    I feel like maybe we should start making more good idea vs. bad idea arguments and stop making so many left vs. right arguments. The good idea vs. bad idea ones seem to be much more useful in the scheme of things, especially when the solution to a problem is somewhere between left and right.

    • @onehappydawg
      @onehappydawg Před 6 lety +5

      The only problem with good idea vs bad idea when it comes to dealing with the left is they think emotionalism vs good idea wins. It's hard to beat them with brains when they think with their emotions.

    • @profanitymanatee4039
      @profanitymanatee4039 Před 6 lety +2

      Onehappydawg Yeah, that's a legitimate problem. But somebody who does think logically can recognize good ideas most of the time. Just yelling at the idiots "I'm not a fascist, you're a fascist!" isn't going to accomplish much in the way of attracting those logical people, it will probably just drive them away and disenfranchise them. Stooping to your opponent's level isn't often a good idea as far as political discourse goes.

    • @onehappydawg
      @onehappydawg Před 6 lety +1

      I don't see many stooping to their level. On the right I see most trying to use logic and common sense it is the progressive left that shouts at everyone they disagree with. In a group the progressive left is impossible to reason with, but when singled out and reasoned with one on one sometimes there can be a break though of the brainwashing they have had.

    • @profanitymanatee4039
      @profanitymanatee4039 Před 6 lety

      Onehappydawg Keyword "most", but MOSTLY fair enough. We can't always reason with the loud extremes of the political spectrum, so the most we can do is drown them out with reason until they can't be heard above the deafening sound of common sense.

    • @matthewvandeventer3632
      @matthewvandeventer3632 Před 6 lety +2

      Onehappydawg, its funny you should say that, I was just talking to a "libtard" who said the same thing about you.

  • @C21H30O2
    @C21H30O2 Před rokem +3

    We've lived in a fascist state since the 40's.

  • @senorblancosenorblanco
    @senorblancosenorblanco Před 3 lety +13

    Gabriele D' Annunzio

    • @alexno.335
      @alexno.335 Před 2 lety

      Was almost based if he didn't mistreat the slavic population

  • @CharlesDickens111
    @CharlesDickens111 Před 6 lety +151

    Merry Christmas, fellow "fascists"!

    • @flamefusion8963
      @flamefusion8963 Před 6 lety +1

      Go home lefty

    • @Raycheetah
      @Raycheetah Před 6 lety

      Flame Fusion I don't think you got the joke. And Merry Christmas! =^[.]^=

    • @flamefusion8963
      @flamefusion8963 Před 6 lety +1

      Raycheetah I did. I was joking.

    • @allanbacon2977
      @allanbacon2977 Před 6 lety +1

      Make Dickens Great Again.

    • @halofansam2446
      @halofansam2446 Před 6 lety

      “Merry Christmas!” You racist fascist!
      It’s a joke if you didn’t get it.

  • @fede2
    @fede2 Před 4 lety +57

    Like the old poem stated: "first they came for the capitalists...".

    • @redafm4505
      @redafm4505 Před 4 lety +3

      federico amadeo I cant tell if this is ironic or not

    • @maverickcoyote3526
      @maverickcoyote3526 Před 4 lety +12

      Uh no, It’s “First they came for the Communists”

    • @jean-louispech4921
      @jean-louispech4921 Před 4 lety +3

      @@maverickcoyote3526
      yes
      their first target for assassination were socialist, social democrats, communists.
      on the other hand the big capitalists of the industry were friends with hitler, the best proof are working camps for industry owning a name of capitalist owners.

  • @hariseldon791
    @hariseldon791 Před rokem +2

    I have learned elsewhere that it is a myth that Nazi is a contraction of National Socialist. It comes from jokes that were popular in Germany at the time , involving a country bumpkin named Ignacio. Nazi is a nickname for Ignacio. So Nazi was a name applied to the National Socialists by their opponents, as an insult. If this is correct, then we would not find Hitler or his supporters referring to themselves as Nazis.

  • @tanglesite4461
    @tanglesite4461 Před rokem +4

    Google celebrated Gentile not too long ago, it was all over on the search page in true google fashion. Sometimes they are just too bold.

  • @kbkesq
    @kbkesq Před 6 lety +8

    Don’t forget Hillary “stronger together.”

  • @willobrien3436
    @willobrien3436 Před 4 lety +108

    In the actual founding document "The Doctrine of Fascism," co-written by Gentile and Mussolini, it explicitly opposes socialism:
    "Fascism is therefore opposed to Socialism to which unity within the State (which amalgamates classes into a single economic and ethical reality) is unknown, and which sees in history nothing but the class struggle. Fascism is likewise opposed to trade unionism as a class weapon, but when brought within the orbit of the State, Fascism recognises the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade-unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which divergent interests are coordinated and harmonised in the unity of the State." (p.15) So Mr. D'SOuza's history is fundamentally wrong (unless he knows more about fascism that Gentile amd Mussolini.

    • @ericmorris3030
      @ericmorris3030 Před 4 lety +18

      will O'Brien Adolph Hitler admired Mussolini in many respects and even followed some of his ideas but Hitler also disagreed with Mussolini on the subject of Socialism and D'Souza discusses this in length in one of his books.

    • @robezy0
      @robezy0 Před 3 lety +29

      This comment section gives me hope. D'Souza just turns to the internet now because all his books and movies were destroyed by actual historians.

    • @geekyradical4985
      @geekyradical4985 Před 3 lety +13

      @@ericmorris3030 Well, Hitler obviously didn't give a damn about social equality. He dissolved trade unions, and used communists and social democrats as scapegoats for Germany's problems. His failure to introduce social reform was a large factor that resulted in his falling out with Ernst Röhm and the SA. That led to the Night of the Long Knives in which every member of the Nazi Party who actually had socialist beliefs was wiped out. In a socialist society, the community provides for everyone and all private ownership of the means of production's forbidden. That just wasn't the case with Nazi Germany. Hitler was far-right. His extreme nationalism, sexism, and persecution of communists and minorities are evidence of that.

    • @RKLIFE17
      @RKLIFE17 Před 3 lety +12

      So basically, the Gentile didn't like socialism because it was not Authoritarian enough. So he determined to make Fascism as socialist corporatism! Got it! The government is a nanny-state for large guilds who provide everything for the people, with an assist from the dictator in power. Man, that's sort of like communism/socialism, except it is a bit more lazy LOL.
      This quote is sort of like saying, we do not like Coke (Socialism/Marxism), there are too many calories (freedom) and makes people sick (hopeful). We should make Diet Coke (Fascism) because it has no calories (freedom), keeps people healthy (better controlled).

    • @soraparent1256
      @soraparent1256 Před 3 lety +5

      Eric Morris that’s false. Something many historians leave out of their history is the fact that Hitler hated Italian fascism and despised Franco’s Spanish fascism. Nazism and fascism are similar, but they are not the same ideology, and I can tell this for certain as someone who hates both ideologies like any other decent human being. Nazism is not a form of socialism, when Gregor Strasser suggested to Hitler that he promotes socialism, he responded by calling strasser a moron and eventually having him killed in the night of the long knives. Not to mention Hitler privatized Germany’s economy and banned trade unions.

  • @christopherwood9009
    @christopherwood9009 Před 2 lety +2

    Fascism doesn't care about your national (ethnic) identity, only for your loyalty, subordination and support.
    National socialism is just that. National socialism. Not fascism.
    Both are national as opposed to international, but national socialism (in '30s Germany) was nationalist with an aim of expansionism (or colonialism) for nationalist purposes

  • @idkwhatnametochoose6197
    @idkwhatnametochoose6197 Před 3 lety +4

    0:12 Ok every Republican is very different than every Republican President.
    0:22 Because It is PragerU even admits it isn’t there Fascism vs Communism video
    0:31 yes
    1:09 any proof of that, and he wasn’t just forgotten?
    2:11 Isnt that said by conservative nationalists too?
    2:28 they meant more as in the “government belongs to us”
    2:31 anyone can call themselves anything, just because North Korea says there democratic doesn’t mean they are
    2:53 ummmm yeah? Fascism is bad, you just said why fascism is bad not why it’s leftist.
    3:04 Again, just because it’s called socialist doesn’t mean it is!
    3:31 your just saying why fascism is bad not why it’s leftist
    4:00 still saying why it’s bad not why it’s leftist
    4:19 Yeah and this time it’s democratic, the people elect the government and decide which politicians to get in office, and those politicians choose what the state controls and what doesn’t. THERE ELECTED
    4:50 The alternative to Elected Government is Unelected Corporations

    • @abeIincoIn
      @abeIincoIn Před 3 lety

      All the "internet gangsters" skipped this comment.😂

  • @jetstream601
    @jetstream601 Před 6 lety +44

    We can all agree that we must avoid any extreme ideology. But to paint every left winger as a fascist? And ignore the nationalism aspect of the ideology which we see on the right wing in todays politics? This video is too bias.

    • @stanky98035
      @stanky98035 Před 6 lety +1

      You say This video is too biased. As if anything the left says isn't biased also?

    • @ANARKOTEROR
      @ANARKOTEROR Před 6 lety

      Nationalism(not to be confused with Patriotism) is a Leftist ideology.

    • @yipyap6161
      @yipyap6161 Před rokem

      @@stanky98035 Whataboutism

  • @Hellware
    @Hellware Před 5 lety +154

    Saying that historians from the left "erased" Giovanni Gentile is a bold and unfounded claim. He might not be as popular as Marx and Smith outside of Italy but no one "erased" him.

    • @keycrafter7471
      @keycrafter7471 Před 5 lety +2

      Hellware no one just mentions him as much as hear because the RETARTED are busy

    • @Hellware
      @Hellware Před 5 lety +6

      Key Crafter uh... what?

    • @keycrafter7471
      @keycrafter7471 Před 5 lety

      Hellware they don't mention his as little as you know

    • @Hellware
      @Hellware Před 5 lety +14

      These people being... academics? journalists? politicians? I'm not sure who is accused of doing what, exactly. Whether leaning left or right I don't see the reason why anyone would pretend Gentile didn't exist, really. It's not like left- wing historians pretend Mussolini didn't happen either. That's why I find that statement a bit baffling. Then again I didn't attend school in the USA, so anything might happen. I just find it strange and think it was just a cheap shot to the left for the sake of it.

    • @keycrafter7471
      @keycrafter7471 Před 5 lety +2

      Hellware the University might not mention him or in high-school due to the RETARTED people being too sensitive to the subject then again I'm not in America I'm in Phillipines it turning to retarded

  • @nickvoss7954
    @nickvoss7954 Před 3 dny

    All I know about fascism is that it stands for everything I don’t

  • @ExpatriatePaul
    @ExpatriatePaul Před 10 měsíci +1

    Nice, but I suggest checking out a well researched book on the philosophical origins of Fascism titled "Ominous Parallels" by Leonard Peikoff, where he points out their driving philosophical force was that of Immanuel Kant.

  • @175epi
    @175epi Před 6 lety +23

    We don't belong to the government. It belongs to us. We participate in it, and are affected by its function (or lack thereof), but we don't belong to it. That mentality belongs to serfdom, not liberty.

    • @kenneth9452
      @kenneth9452 Před 5 lety +2

      @Orn Gorn Why would anyone vote for a party that put millions of innocent people in internment camps, steal money from hardworking people to give to lazy people, support gun confiscations, support restricting free speech.

  • @georgiospyrgiotakisphd4563
    @georgiospyrgiotakisphd4563 Před 6 lety +125

    This video should be entitled "How to distort history, facts and ideologies to pass your agenda"

    • @TheMoukis
      @TheMoukis Před 6 lety +7

      Sure buddy if you say so. Don’t mind presenting any arguments here. Just be...a fascist.

    • @georgiospyrgiotakisphd4563
      @georgiospyrgiotakisphd4563 Před 6 lety +30

      The history of fascism is too long and too complicated to be explained in a short you tube video or even worse in the comments thread. I will give you a couple of arguments though.
      The major argument here is that fascism left in origin mainly because it mandates that "the government" controls everything, like industry and commerce. This is, however wrong as all political books define fascism as a form of far right radical authoritarian nationalism. As part of this agenda the control of the press, commerce, industry and pretty much every day activity is essential. It is not a left agenda, it is the only agenda. Mussolini (the true creator of fascism) had to control these sectors to maintain power, just like right now in North Korea. This control is not the ideology of fascism it is the means required to have fascism. The core of fascism is to have the whole country as a one body serving the nation. Left has the whole country as one body serving society, hence socialism (or communism from serving the community). This is a big difference that this video does not even mentioning, but it is the essence that sets the two ideologies apart. As a matter of a fact, The Doctrine of Fascism, the book by Mussolini that defined fascism, states "We are free to believe that this is the century of authority, a century tending to the right a fascist century". Giovanni Gentile embraced fascism and wrote the manifesto five years after Mussolini had already established his authoritarian government and published his book Doctrine of Fascism, that by now was a textbook.
      Another argument Dinesh D'Souza is mentioning is that Fascism stands against the human rights. That is the total opposite of modern day left. It is actually the opposite of the modern day right as well. Also I 've never heard anyone calling any Republican president fascist.
      In conclusion in this video Dinesh D'Souza picks and chooses historical facts, sections of political ideologies, and historic events to make his point. The facts are mentioned out of context, out of order and frankly out of touch with reality.

    • @whatster8753
      @whatster8753 Před 6 lety +4

      Someone is a leftist derp

    • @k-khanjali9567
      @k-khanjali9567 Před 6 lety +1

      Lol no.

    • @georgiospyrgiotakisphd4563
      @georgiospyrgiotakisphd4563 Před 6 lety +15

      Just stating the historic facts.... with my real name too.

  • @cal30no1iscool9
    @cal30no1iscool9 Před rokem +3

    While yes , fascism had its roots in a leftist,
    This gentilism has never truly been practiced, and as such I feel as though gentile’s fascism is not a good representation of modern fascism. For example, gentile believed in a system that betters everyone(so he described it as a family), but the main instances of fascist governments we have seen (Japan,Germany,and Italy), would intentionally murder and rape people within their own borders that weren’t of the “upper class” of person, and even those with claimed racial superiority would be forced to fight, starved, and left to rot in camps, should they be gay, communist, or follow a non-accepted religion. I feel as though gentile did not invent modern fascism, he created modern nationalism.

    • @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.
      @Historia.Magistra.Vitae. Před rokem

      @Cal30no1 Is cool : There is no such thing as "modern fa scis m". Fa scis m has not been a thing since the W W2 It aly.

    • @cal30no1iscool9
      @cal30no1iscool9 Před rokem +1

      @@Historia.Magistra.Vitae. I MEANT Italian fascism and nazism, keep in mind that gentile was from the 1880's, a whole 40 years before fascism first rose in italy.

  • @bendunk4532
    @bendunk4532 Před 2 lety +32

    Doctors will want to examine this mans brain after his death, I don't know whether anyone has ever studied a human brain quite so smooth.

    • @delinquente1444
      @delinquente1444 Před 2 lety +7

      LMFAO

    • @4tbf616
      @4tbf616 Před rokem +1

      Stop, stop, hes already dead!

    • @funkfamily4165
      @funkfamily4165 Před 8 měsíci

      OK Comrades

    • @mrsentencename7334
      @mrsentencename7334 Před 8 měsíci

      Name 10 books on the subject

    • @funkfamily4165
      @funkfamily4165 Před 8 měsíci

      @mrsentencename7334 Only need one. _Road to Serfdom_ , by Friedrich Hayek. "from the point of view of fundamental human liberties there is little to choose between communism, socialism, and national socialism. They _all_ are examples of the collectivist or totalitarian state ..."

  • @kenneth9343
    @kenneth9343 Před 6 lety +39

    I hope leftist see this video so that they can learn something.

    • @stardreamer8996
      @stardreamer8996 Před 6 lety

      Meh, the thing about the establishment leftists is that they'd rather teach you to put up mental barriers than teach you to think for yourself. Show it to a million of them, but you can only save people with an already crumbling infrastructure.

    • @JayPfo
      @JayPfo Před 6 lety +3

      As someone who is politically more associated with the left I found this video worth very little educationally speaking. He extrapolates information in a way not originally intended by Gentile and also the right has adopted many of his views as well. For example Hyper Nationalism, a rejection of globalism, strong national boarders as a way to secure national sovereignty. It's almost as if the views of an influential political philosopher was adopted by people.

    • @ccswelding1599
      @ccswelding1599 Před 6 lety

      fascism is a leftist ideology...marxism (communism) is even MORE left...different fruit, same branch

  • @genericdenizen1
    @genericdenizen1 Před 6 lety +419

    Graduated from an expensive, private high school, then university, then graduate school, and hadn't heard of Giovanni Gentile until now. Of course, I was born and raised in Commiefornia.

    • @julymagnus493
      @julymagnus493 Před 5 lety +45

      Oh yeah, its California's fault that you didn't know something, that makes sense

    • @VisioningHail
      @VisioningHail Před 5 lety +23

      "anything I don't like is leftist REEEEEEEEE"

    • @kalemata4336
      @kalemata4336 Před 5 lety +4

      Bill Herschel , it's more because he doesn't have a bigger impact both in hystory and filosofy than inspired fascism that he is quite forgotten. Even here in Italy testbooks speaks about him in very few lines

    • @Juppie902
      @Juppie902 Před 5 lety +5

      SHOOT UP THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS BEFORE THEY BRAINWASH OTHER KIDS TO EXPERIENCE THE SAME LOW QUALITY LIFE YOU DID, ALL PART OF A PLAN IMPLEMENTED BY COMMUNISTS OFCOURSE

    • @AlexiLaiho227
      @AlexiLaiho227 Před 5 lety +5

      i WISH california was full of communists. unfortunately, it's just liberals. liberalism is basically the opposite of communism.

  • @AloysiusMahoney2155
    @AloysiusMahoney2155 Před měsícem +2

    Fascist describes a political movement/party/person that convinced themselves that no tactic is too repugnant, no alliance is too distasteful, and no moral compromise is too loathsome when they are serving the lofty goal of getting themselves in power.

  • @Bay0Wulf
    @Bay0Wulf Před měsícem +2

    I don’t know about this explanation as to the “Origins” of Fascism as an Idea or Word.
    Benito Mussolini’s Fascist Party of Italy was named for the fasces, which the members adopted in 1919 as their emblem. The Winged Liberty dime, minted in the United States from 1916 to 1945, depicts the fasces on its reverse side.
    (The Fasces was; The Axe representing Supreme Authority, the Rods; Punishment, the Binding; Strength of Unity)
    The fasces, insignia of official authority in ancient Rome (& Etruria) The name derives from the plural form of the Latin fascis (“bundle”).
    The fasces was carried by the lictors, or attendants, and was characterized by an ax head projecting from a bundle of elm or birch rods about 5 feet (1.5 metres) long and tied together with a red strap; it symbolized penal power.

  • @AJKeio
    @AJKeio Před 6 lety +14

    For those of you saying this is somehow wrong or misleading if you could point out the error is Dinesh's claims, I'm sure you could convince me.

    • @csapienza001
      @csapienza001 Před 6 lety +6

      AJKeio liberal democracy (what Dinesh calls "conservatism" also has its roots in radical leftism-- the enlightenment itself was far left in the era in which it was born.

    • @jullianaubrey9936
      @jullianaubrey9936 Před 6 lety +7

      Shhh, he doesn't really want you to point out errors otherwise he would have read other comments that have pointed out similar things. He simply wants his world view to be reaffirmed by an echo chamber.

    • @AJKeio
      @AJKeio Před 6 lety +4

      I am honestly curious. I just find it hard to believe that big government in which the state is in control of everything most everything could possibly be right wing. Today's left looks more and more like the then Nazi party who's goal was big government and silencing the opinions of free people.

    • @jullianaubrey9936
      @jullianaubrey9936 Před 6 lety +4

      "... big government and silencing the opinions of free people..." sounds like the entire Trump agenda, to be honest. He's put into action more executive orders than any other President in the last 50 odd years, meaning he's on pace to sign the most of all time, he tries to use the office of the Presidency to dictate the hiring and firing within independent businesses, he wants to wrest control from both the judicial and legislative branches of government to the executive branch (a trend started by the last republican president), he urges the justice department to investigate independent media and reduce the efficacy of the first amendment, he utilizes Orwellian tactics with weirdly positive results- anything he doesn't agree with simply isn't real, he openly contradicts himself from one week to another (in a sort of bizarrely infantile version of double think)-also he has an incredibly punchable face. That last one isn't relevant, but true nonetheless.

    • @berryc.5220
      @berryc.5220 Před 6 lety +4

      Nazis were not socialist, and there has never been a socialistic fascist state. Fascism is actually corporativist.

  • @Timasion
    @Timasion Před 6 lety +27

    "Well I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There's only an up or down: [up] man's old -- old-aged dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. " - Ronald Reagan
    Fascism, Nazism, Communism, Socialism - It's all the same to me. Just more tyranny.

    • @luaustin627
      @luaustin627 Před 6 lety +2

      God bless that beautiful man. If I were gay he would be "The One".

    • @presidentmegtawma6845
      @presidentmegtawma6845 Před 4 lety +2

      Arguing the differences between these philosophies, is like arguing who is the hottest girl in a Robert Palmer video.

    • @DamianLopez-td3rc
      @DamianLopez-td3rc Před 4 lety +1

      I agree with Brian nothing is right or wrong good or bad just everything you believe is good or bad or right or wrong it's just words to make people hate or like something to keep people safe(like laws) and it's all about what you believe

  • @upschutt4842
    @upschutt4842 Před rokem +2

    all in this together sounds vaguely familiar since 2020.,,

  • @omdc535
    @omdc535 Před 2 dny +2

    Instead of using terms left to right or right to left, socialism, communism, fascism, etc.. I think better terms would be total government authority/control (totalitarianism) on one end and no or less government authority/control (anarchy) on the other end. The Constitution & Conservatism are the less government authority/control side aka more individual freedom, but not so far as to support anarchy.

    • @regisglass4564
      @regisglass4564 Před 2 dny +1

      not really. after all trump supporters have made abortion illegal, demand muslims be put on a register, strive for State enforced genital checks per fearing trans people in bathrooms, and even attempted to force trump into power through an insurrection

  • @TheJigsawTimes
    @TheJigsawTimes Před 5 lety +119

    Gentile was a Hegelian Philosopher and rejected basically all of Marx’s teachings.

    • @rw8185
      @rw8185 Před 5 lety +28

      @@TheJigsawTimes which in some cases they were. Thats erroneous to generalize an entire continent's population and rather shows your prejudice against those same inhabitants. Idiotic.

    • @TheJigsawTimes
      @TheJigsawTimes Před 5 lety +14

      What’s idiotic is to make a generalisation(that actually disproves your point) then claim that generalisations are bad.
      I don’t know if it’s an unpopular opinion on these wildly misleading videos but it is impossible to treat a slave well. The admission that you own another person and you are willing to enforce that position against that persons will makes you so far beyond the realm of “treating them well” and puts you so far into sociopathic territory that letting them eat at the table and wear nice clothes won’t help you

    • @rw8185
      @rw8185 Před 5 lety +25

      @@TheJigsawTimes its funny that you call them wildly misleading when Gentile is considered neo-Hegelian yes he was actually also heavily inspired by Marx when formulating his ideas. Still you are nothing but actual hot air simplifying the treatment of Africa all over by stating everyone was treated all the same. The term slave that you use on top of that is a multi-faceted term which in some cases is equivalent to 'seasonal worker'. You are profoundly uneducated and on top of that refer to things being contrary to how they actually are. You're a joke

    • @KirkjaGrobbi
      @KirkjaGrobbi Před 5 lety +1

      @@rw8185 citations for all of that please and thank you

    • @rw8185
      @rw8185 Před 5 lety +8

      @@KirkjaGrobbi why? Cause you dont agree with what I say? Thats not how it works dunce. Listen to yourself.. "please". Like I'm here to please to your needy critical viewpoint.

  • @soiboi4497
    @soiboi4497 Před 5 lety +175

    This is right wing buzzfeed.
    CHANGE MY MIND

    • @SilverMenace100
      @SilverMenace100 Před 5 lety +12

      I can't.

    • @tylernass6263
      @tylernass6263 Před 5 lety +51

      The only difference is at least buzzfeed has quizzes that tell me what type of shoe I am based on my opinions on eggs or whatever

    • @jensjensen9035
      @jensjensen9035 Před 5 lety +9

      they don't make shitty quiz articles

    • @miros05
      @miros05 Před 5 lety +42

      Well this one has valide points and good arguments back them up while buzzfeed have stupid quiz articles and gifs

    • @Ben-sb9fo
      @Ben-sb9fo Před 5 lety +19

      Except theses guys aren’t stupid as hell

  • @realistblue-_-136
    @realistblue-_-136 Před 2 měsíci +3

    I can know the answer they were going to give before I clicked on the video

  • @V1489Cygni
    @V1489Cygni Před 3 lety +12

    If it's such a great threat today, how come the very people that have it loaded on the chamber and pointed at their adversaries don't bother learning anything about it beyond "it's evil". How come the people that want to inform others of its dangers, only focus on racism? The more a left wing activist learns about it, the less convenient it becomes

    • @ComradeRedRoo
      @ComradeRedRoo Před 2 lety

      Ultra nationalism literally defines fascism that’s racism. Prager u is brain damaged. You’re a flop.