The often-heard mantra from the left side of the political spectrum that fascism is a right-wing ideology, while communism-socialism is a left-wing philosophy, is a very widespread misconception.
I've been noticing this a lot lately, the liberal camp slinging the term "fascist" against the right-wing camp or just about anyone who dares to challenge – whether mildly or militantly – their watery beliefs.
In their eyes, fascism is a weak ideology reserved for evil, white, bigoted, misogynistic, racist, homophobic, sexist, conservative patriarchal men who spout evil "fascist rhetoric" like small government, individualism, self-reliance, free markets, free speech, capitalism, less dependency on government, traditionalism and self-responsibility with strong ties to self-sustaining, God-honoring, autonomous, Christian family units.
Wrong.
In fact, fascism is quite the opposite.
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Thanks to our "progressive" public education system and corporate media, which have sterilized and miconstrued history to fit it in to their narrative, the real meaning of fascism is sorely misunderstood by today's breed of virtue-signalling liberals and social justice warriors.
It's kind of like how the word "racist" is thrown around by lefties everywhere when conservatives dare to criticize the hateful ideology of Islam. Last time I checked, Islam was not a race. Lefties need to take a lesson in basic definitions. But I digress …
After peeling back the thick layers of Orwellian leftist language and indoctrination that claims fascism is of the "evil right," closer examination reveals not-so-startling comparisons to the modern leftist.
Fascism was an extremely leftist populist movement that took root in Mussolini's Italy and spread like wildfire throughout Europe post-World War 1.
It would eventually compete with International Socialism for the young revolutionary and the working class and become popular with the rest of the masses in other places such as Germany and France.
Ultimately, it ended up being more favorable than traditional socialism and communism, as many individuals saw it as somewhat more of a "working system" rather than the utopian idea of "uniting the workers of the world" (the motto of the International Socialist). Of course, we know despite the clever rhetoric that neither system ever worked, nor will they ever.
If we take a lesson in history, we will find that fascism was originally born out of socialism, which is the core ideology of the left. In many ways it is the "new and improved" socialism on steroids with state-centricity at its core. Benito Mussolini, the charismatic founder of this radical revolution, was raised as an Italian Socialist to the core.
Under fascism, conformity to the state is paramount. It is the state that serves as the religion; it is the state to which all must owe their complete and unwavering loyalty, allegiance and obeisance; and it is the state that is always put before the rights of the individual.
Fascism is all about big government, social engineering, wealth confiscation, anti-capitalism, anti-democracy, secularism, anti-individualism, anti-liberty and anti-bourgeois nationalism.
In all leftist extremes – be it communism, Nazism, socialism, or fascism – murder, violence, fraud, corruption and censorship are sure to be the eventual outcome of big, unaccountable government.
Looking back through time, nothing has been more devastating and politically dangerous as extreme leftist thought. We need only look at the collective bloodshed of all three leftist ideologies, all of which helped contribute to a whopping 85-100 million deaths worldwide, not to mention the censorship, labor camps, imprisonment, torture and violation of civil liberties associated with those violent regimes.
And now in this brave new world that Aldous Huxley spoke of and George Orwell uncannily predicted, such militant rhetoric is rife in a culture that has abandoned God.
One should think of fascism not as being diametrically opposite to socialism and communism, but rather another kindred spirit – or faction – in the mixed basket of radical leftist ideologies competing for the hearts and minds of the populace.
In fact, when all three are compared, the common link – and might I even say the core ideology – between them all is the ism called "collectivism," which is the religion of the "common greater good" – the group over the individual, the state over the slave, the tyrant over the subjects. It is the obliteration of individualism, which is abhorrent to the collectivist.
The conclusion of the matter is that fascism is perfectly aligned with leftist rhetoric and not, in any way, associated with the right as it's incorrectly purported by leftists, the public education system and the mainstream media.