Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each:
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, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
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, etc.
4. 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. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution.
6. Controlled Mass Media - Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
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7. Obsession with National Security - Fear 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. Corporate Power is Protected - 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. Labor Power is Suppressed - 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 and letters is openly attacked.
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.
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>B-but fascism will keep us safe!
>Implying fascism is bad
Careful not to cut yourself with that edge
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This is retarded, how did he gauge that human rights and abortions are suppressed with Hitler and Mussolini when both of these things didn't exist at the time?
...Are you implying that neither human rights nor abortions existed in the 1930s and 40s?
Yeah but...
All those characteristics point to Hillary and Obama...
Surprised he even mentioned Suharto or the Latin American dictatorships. Almost nobody mentions them despite the fact that they killed a total of several million people.
That's exactly what i was implying... well i meant abortion not being legal, it did exist obviously
Yeah, damn Obama and Hillary endorsing torture, saying they'll ban Muslims, talking about how we need to rally against terrorism and socialism, trying to repeal gay marriage, proclaiming the US is based on Christianity, busting unions...
Oh, wait, you're retarded.
Fuck off faggot, that's not Fascism.
>hurr the only possible scapegoat is Muslims.
God you disgust me.
I'm not the one going around saying "THE MUDSLIMES ARE RUINING MAH COUNTRY! BAN THEM FROM ENTERING THE COUNTRY!" That's you guys.
Dude, torture literally happened under Hillary and Obama
Well, that's it, guess I'm #Flyingwithfascism now.
Fuck off.
You seem to be confused. Are you talking about the Obama administration or the Republicans in Congress during said administration?
I'm not confused at all. There was torture going on while Obama was president and Hillary was SoS.
B-but Donald said mean things. He is literally a meany.
you fucking retard
Yes, the current administration may hit one or two of those points.
A Trump-led GOP hits almost all of them.
Very interesting and helpful user
What is wrong with being patriotic and wanting borders.
The answer you give will determine your jewishness
There's nothing wrong with patriotism. Nationalism is the problem. When people are too busy waving flags and engaging in exceptionalism to stop to think that maybe what their government is doing is wrong, there's a problem. That's how we got people defending torture during Dubya's reign.
There was also nothing in my post about borders.
>Nationalism is the problem
t. Globalist
Okay, so now tell me how Israel is a special case and despite them ticking nearly every box, they are not fascist.
>Nationalism is the problem.
Hi JIDF.
Israel is a country founded on and subsisted by war crimes
None of these are defining characteristics of fascist regimes. General characteristics of Totalitarian regimes maybe.
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Fascism is the religion of the government. Fall in line, or die.
>nationalism is the problem
Yeah get out of my country and go fuck yourself international parasite
>H-he didn't confirm my preconceived notions of what my opposition is that I formed in a vacuum! T-this can't be! He must be lying!
Kill yourself, fascist.
We're not the ones running around blaming white people either
When did I say anything about borders? Fucking Christ, you guys are slow.
Why do you love nationalism so much? Why do you not want people to question their government? Why just fall in line?
Fair enough.
How much and to which degree of these characteristics fullfills current USA ?
(Some of them are obsolette and not required to define fascism - for example male sexism is long since past, todays fascism has strong stress on feminism instead...)
Read 1984.
Everything you listed sounds like America
Only a Juden would fear America's greatness.
Are you a jew?
the progressive agenda essentially. They just don't hold all the power as of yet.
Applies to Obama/ Clinton:
3 - whites, sort of
6 - PC
7 - Patriot Act and +++ surveillance
9 - Unintentional consequence of "globalism"
13 - Most establishment candidate ever
Applies to Trump:
1 - America first
3 - Muslim ban
4 - Military/ police support
So, none are fascist, moving on.
The famed "Dr" Lawrence Britt. I took his class at Harvard Yale. Had Drs J, Detroit, and Pepper that semester. Brutal.
I can't even tell anymoe
Lot of bullshit like most fascism definitions
Nationalism is when population accepts elite's proposal of unification based on some ideal and/or mascot. Fascism is when it no longer works and ruling elites enforce fake unity via hysteria and vision of external menace.
Early 20 century america was nationalist, united around idea of working hard and reaping the fruits of wealth from it. Modern america is fascist, herded under excuse of "war on terror" (sponsored by close friends of US elite) and snobism of upper middle class which feels it won't be able to handle unwashed rednecks without state's intervention.
He isn't entirely wrong. Political Correctness leads into 1984.
>Fascism is a religion of the state. It assumes the organic unity of the political body and longs for a national leader attuned to the will of the people. It is totalitarian in that it views everything as political and holds that any action by the state is justified to achieve the common good. It takes responsibility for all aspects of life, including our health and well-being, and seeks to impose uniformity of thought and action, whether by force or through regulation and social pressure. Everything, including the economy and religion, must be aligned with its objectives. Any rival identity is part of the "problem" and therefore defined as the enemy.
In what reality do leftist politics end up at the extreme right?
>rampant Sexism
citation needed. Nazi Germany had some brilliant gender equality
>corporate power is protected
Not necessarily true. most governments recognized as fascist were actually pretty harsh on national industry but they also practiced autarky which in turn leads to tariffs and protectionism
>disdain for (((intelelctuals))) and the arts
just the random shit like covering yourself in spaghetti-os as "art". Classical standards are standards for a reason
>Rampant Corruption
not necessarily true
>fraudulent elections
not necessarily true but most nationalist countries are cult of personalities and rally behind a single guy for a long time
>disdain for human rights
Not necessarily true either. If im the fascist head of state in one country, i dont give a fuck what happens in some other country that violates human rights because some globalist shit stain told me to enforce them with a useless organization sucking away my money
>religion and government intertwined
Name fucking one fascist state with a theocracy
The US fits almost all of these. I personally counted 12/14 that this fits the bill of.
Soviet Union under Stalin.
>I'm going to start using arguments using definitions that aren't in any dictionary
>for example, I could say that you're a fascist because you're wearing pajamas.
Which is it user, does the extreme right hate government or do they want big totalitarian government?
Soviet union was just feudal state on steroids. Honestly Russia always was.
i dont know which word in my quote wasnt in a dictionary.
the author is defining fascism and then spends the next 400 pages providing examples.
Fascism is the superior ideology.
>the GOP is fascist
God I wish.
Actual fascist here, you don't know what you're saying. Britt is an idiot.
They pretend to hate government until they're in control, at which point they attempt to seize as much power as possible. Look at how butthurt right-wingers are at Obama using powers Bush took.
Interesting. What does the GOP do (or not do) that isn't fascist enough for you?
Apart from supporting the Federal Reserve, foreign wars in the Middle East for a foreign power, being multi-ethnic and multi-culti, ignoring the immigration issues instead of solving them, etc.
The issue isn't they're fascist, the issue is they're not liberal enough for your tastes.
Except that's not the extreme right unless anyone republican is extreme right by your standard.
The extreme right hated Bush and actively fought against Jeb and anyone else promoting Bush like policies in the primary this year.
You literally CAN'T be a Patriot without being a Nationalist.
>the Fed
How is this incompatible with fascism?
>wars in the Middle East for a foreign power
Which? Afghanistan is just a continuation of a retaliatory war and Iraq would be in retaliation to attacks here, I thought.
>being multi-ethnic and multi-culti
It's quite clear the the Republicans only pay lip service to this, if anything.
>ignoring the immigration issues instead of solving them
I thought that was the whole "build a wall" thing and banning Muslim visitors as well as immigrants
What? Nationalism is just extremist patriotism.
You just described the regressive left.
Sounds like a good program.
Would vote.
Fascism was defined a long time ago by its' creator: Benito Mussolini. What this guy is doing is redefining it to meet current political standards as a word weapon.
Liberals do this all the time. FUCK the creator's vision, LETS MAKE SPIDERMAN BLACK BECAUSE REASONS.
The only word they keep the original purpose of is Racism by Leon Trotsky.
>A search of the internet reveals no “Doctor Laurence Britt, political scholar,” nor can any of his works be found aside from the 14 Warning Signs themselves. Does this man exist? As it turns out, yes and no. There is no “Dr. Laurence Britt, political scientist” and there never was. There is only Laurence Britt, former executive and author of a single book, who wrote the 14 Signs. Far from being anything resembling an expert on politics, much less Fascism specifically, Britt is a former corporate executive who worked for such corporations as Allied Chemical, Mobil and Xerox Corp and studied business at Northwestern University.
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But Sup Forums's reaction to it was rather telling, wasn't it?