Are We A Fascist Nation? - Video Inside [Archive]

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08-22-2005, 07:19 AM

"We always obeyed the law. Isn"t that what you do in America? Even if you don't agree with a law personally, you still obey it. Otherwise life would be chaos." - Gertrude Scholtz-Klink, chief of the Women's Bureau under Hitler explaining the Jewish policy of the Nazis

Online Power Point Presentation

http://mvp-seattle.com/pages/pageFascism.htm

Wake up and smell the fascism

In "Fascism Anyone?," Laurence Britt identifies 14 characteristics common to fascist regimes. His comparisons of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Suharto, and Pinochet yielded this list of 14 "identifying characteristics of fascism."

http://oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm

Understanding Fascism: Daniel Guérin's Brown Plague

Fascism is most often defined today in relationship to genocide. The word fascism itself is inseparable from the fate of the Jews in Germany. The War and the Holocaust do not seem to retreat into the past, in the way that we might expect from phrases such as 'to consign [an event] to history'. They remain in present-day focus. Yet if fascism was primarily a form of state terrorism against minorities, which were not minorities (women, workers), and if fascism was only a preparation for war and genocide - then why did anyone support it at the time, and why has anyone tried to revive it since?

http://www.dkrenton.co.uk/research/guerin.html

Ordinary Fascism

http://www.williambowles.info/ini/ini-0349.html

The "death cult" or Super Fascism

"The secret of Bush story is in that conversion to extremist Christianity - and so is part of the crisis in the US. The Zionists and Neo-cons complete other parts of super-fascism along with the ideas that brought about these conversions. If not stopped by other Americans, the super fascism will end up converting the world's great country into a real cult of death."

http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/16827

Anatomy of Fascism

What is fascism? Many authors have proposed definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract. The esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question for the first time by focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did, rather than what they said. From the first violent uniformed bands beating up "enemies of the state," through Mussolini's rise to power, to Germany's fascist radicalization in World War II, Paxton shows clearly why fascists came to power in some countries and not others, and explores whether fascism could exist outside the early-twentieth-century European setting in which it emerged.

The Anatomy of Fascism will have a lasting impact on our understanding of modern European history, just as Paxton's classic Vichy France redefined our vision of World War II. Based on a lifetime of research, this compelling and important book transforms our knowledge of fascism--"the major political innovation of the twentieth century, and the source of much of its pain."

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400033911

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The appeal of fascism

"What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling seacoasts, the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army. These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land. All of them may be turned against our liberties, without making us stronger or weaker for the struggle. Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit, and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage, and you are preparing your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of those around you, you have lost the genius of your own independence, and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises." - Abraham Lincoln

What afflicts the people of the United States in these days, that they have developed the capacity not only to tolerate, but even to cherish, the blatant lies and hypocrisies, the injustices, the evasions, and of course the invasions perpetrated by George W Bush and his neo-conservative cabal? How can even conservatives themselves stomach this internationalist, interventionist, activist-court-packing, states'-rights-suppressing cat's-paw of the transnational culture of control that is the only heartfelt homeland of the corporate elite?

Yes, there is opposition, an opposition that comprises most likely a small majority of the country's people - but the supposedly "liberal" media do their best to ignore and even marginalize it, and besides, that yet leaves hundreds of millions here who work themselves into ecstasies of adulation at the words, however fumbling, of this jug-eared cipher, and into equal ecstasies of joyous indignation at the sound of any word that controverts the image his handlers project to the loving masses huddled underneath the balcony...

http://www.axisoflogic.com/cgi-bin/exec/view.pl?archive=75&num=12740

Flash Video: The philosophy of liberty

http://www.jonathangullible.com/images/philosoph.gif

http://jonathangullible.com/mmedia/PhilosophyOfLiberty-english_music.swf

"Introducing Fascism"

The cultivation of irrationality - the impulse was more important than logical thought. Irrationality led to a cult of death - witness the Spanish Fascist slogan: Arriba la Muerte! - Long live Death!

Fascism claimed to honour the dignity of labour and the role of the peasantry as providers of the staples of life. With this went an idealized picture of rural life - the healthy countryside versus the decadent city.

Fascism's electoral support came overwhelmingly from the middle-class - in particular the lower middle-class affected by economic crisis.

Fascism needed scapegoat enemies - "the Other" on whom to focus society's agressions and hate.

http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=32756