March 13, 2024
Confusion about Fascism
Logical confusion arises when it is thought that anyone who supports something that fascism also supported is therefore a fascist: if one is against abortion, gay marriage, or the limitation of sovereignty (e.g., the EU, NATO), then they are fascist. But that's not the case: these are common beliefs in many other ideologies. The measures being adopted to encourage childbirth are not fascism just because fascism campaigned in that direction. Nor should every authoritarian political system that does not allow dissent be considered fascism: in this sense, then, three-quarters of the modern world would be fascist (from Arab regimes to China) and our entire past would be fascism (from Caesar to Charlemagne to Peter the Great). Obviously, if we expand the concept of fascism (communism, democracy) beyond every historical order, then fascism dominates our world and will never end.