• devils_advocate@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    People don’t recognise fascism when it’s in front of their faces.

    • Huge military budget

    • weaponized, authoritarian police force with little oversight.

    • Nationalist habits like pledging allegiance regularly when young and national anthems when together.

    • a strong belief that they are the best nation on earth, often backed with religious certainly.

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      REJECTION OF PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY AS A SHAM AND A FRAUD
      After socialism, Fascism trains its guns on the whole block of democratic ideologies, and rejects both their premises and their practical applications and implements. Fascism denies that numbers, as such, can be the determining factor in human society; it denies the right of numbers to govern by means of periodical consultations; it asserts the irremediable and fertile and beneficent inequality of men who cannot be leveled by any such mechanical and extrinsic device as universal suffrage. Democratic regimes may be described as those under which the people are, from time to time, deluded into the belief that they exercise sovereignty, while all the time real sovereignty resides in and is exercised by other and sometimes irresponsible and secret forces. Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical, and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant.

      From Benito Mussolini on Fascist doctrine