A well crafted survey of fascism. More people need to be made aware of the underpinnings that support and promulgate fascism.
With regards to point number 8 and America in particular, I would say that there is no one religion specifically that provides the major impetus that melds politics with extremism, but rather the emphasis on "God" as the overarching "Authority" is what is the prime driver of the extreme right;
This drive in its concentrated form within the echelons of the far right then filters leftwards through the right of center spectrum finding sympathies and agreements with nearly all conservatives due to the appeal to God, that is by and largely supported by the fixed/metaphysical epistemology that informs and becomes the only accepted body of knowledge within which right wing proponents abide;
For it is only within such closed minded understandings of how things operate and work that evidentially supported conclusions will not be the foundation of how a society and its individual citizens should conduct themselves, as opposed to left of center thinking which is by and largely comprised of a knowledgeability that is founded in a developing/naturalistic epistemology which leads the way with open minded understandings of how things operate and work due to the use of evidences to support how individuals and by extension society should be conducted for the benefits of all concerned.
With these thoughts in mind I have recently come to the conclusion that the best single descriptor to use for the so-called Christodemocracy movement is the more accurate, comprehensive term-Theopolitical movement.
What I only recently fully realized: fascism/ Nazis/ dictatorships are possible because people let it happen and/or buy into it. Sometimes, because they've never experienced democracy, like China or Russia. But look at Iran: people (women in particular) are so fed up that they're risking their lives for change. Here in the U.S., people have been brainwashed with 24-hr TV plus commercials much longer than in Europe. And it shows.
There's *always* an exchange. I feel that Trump offered whites retained privilege and supremacy--and control of women for men. I also think (but can't prove) that the quest for abortion is NOT definitively linked to white supremacy (as more women of color have abortions than white women) but that it IS linked to male wealth: if men can keep women pregnant and raising kids for 20 years, they can get back all the juicy jobs they've lost to women since Roe. Clarence Thomas even wants to make birth control illegal for MARRIED couples. The loss of male wealth since Roe is staggering. AND women were outdoing men across nearly every benchmark in business, especially management as women tend to be better managers than men: they are by nature, it is said (not sure about this, either) more about connection than competition, so destroy less in the course of management. Now even NASA is saying that the first Mars mission should probably be all-female as women are smaller and consume less oxygen, food and water, making the margin of safety for long spaceflights even better. Thanks for the references. I collect them. One historian said that, whether on the right or left, we have been dealing with fascism in some form since the mid-1800s. I think that's right. Toss in religion as a MAJOR, not ancillary, force in fascism, and you have got a REAL problem. It was clearer in Spain, but in Nazi Germany, the Hitler Youth met in Lutheran Churches until the Lutherans finally freaked. Then Hitler created the Reich's church -- because FASCISM HAS TO BE ORDAINED BY GOD. It's so vicious that only then can it have any kind of legitimacy.
Interesting to link fascism to male wealth. It's certainly linked to male dominance; I've never heard of a society that's led by autoritarian females? Sad that so many (mostly white) women fall for this BS. And yes -- RELIGION!!! Catholics: completely patriarchial/authoritarian. And I just read about some Baptist churches that won't allow female ministers any more. That's MY problem: WHY do people (women f.e.) go along? Let it happen, even when it hurts them? People are gullible and stupid and don't like to think for themselves. Sad.
Well, I think fascism connects there, but I think male wealth and power REALLY connect to abortion. Women became pro-life -- of course, women have no life so it's not really pro-life -- for different reasons. But the super reason men do it, I think, is that they want women out of the work force for 20-25 years with 2-4 kids so they don't compete: so men can take all the good jobs, control all the money, not have to take orders, and rule the roost. It's not pretty.
A well crafted survey of fascism. More people need to be made aware of the underpinnings that support and promulgate fascism.
With regards to point number 8 and America in particular, I would say that there is no one religion specifically that provides the major impetus that melds politics with extremism, but rather the emphasis on "God" as the overarching "Authority" is what is the prime driver of the extreme right;
This drive in its concentrated form within the echelons of the far right then filters leftwards through the right of center spectrum finding sympathies and agreements with nearly all conservatives due to the appeal to God, that is by and largely supported by the fixed/metaphysical epistemology that informs and becomes the only accepted body of knowledge within which right wing proponents abide;
For it is only within such closed minded understandings of how things operate and work that evidentially supported conclusions will not be the foundation of how a society and its individual citizens should conduct themselves, as opposed to left of center thinking which is by and largely comprised of a knowledgeability that is founded in a developing/naturalistic epistemology which leads the way with open minded understandings of how things operate and work due to the use of evidences to support how individuals and by extension society should be conducted for the benefits of all concerned.
With these thoughts in mind I have recently come to the conclusion that the best single descriptor to use for the so-called Christodemocracy movement is the more accurate, comprehensive term-Theopolitical movement.
I just cut to the chase and went straight for Christofascism, just like I eventually went for Islamofascist. Enough already!
A bit later than 2003, but other early warnings: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/apr/24/usa.comment and
https://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fascism/AmerikaUberAlles.html
What I only recently fully realized: fascism/ Nazis/ dictatorships are possible because people let it happen and/or buy into it. Sometimes, because they've never experienced democracy, like China or Russia. But look at Iran: people (women in particular) are so fed up that they're risking their lives for change. Here in the U.S., people have been brainwashed with 24-hr TV plus commercials much longer than in Europe. And it shows.
There's *always* an exchange. I feel that Trump offered whites retained privilege and supremacy--and control of women for men. I also think (but can't prove) that the quest for abortion is NOT definitively linked to white supremacy (as more women of color have abortions than white women) but that it IS linked to male wealth: if men can keep women pregnant and raising kids for 20 years, they can get back all the juicy jobs they've lost to women since Roe. Clarence Thomas even wants to make birth control illegal for MARRIED couples. The loss of male wealth since Roe is staggering. AND women were outdoing men across nearly every benchmark in business, especially management as women tend to be better managers than men: they are by nature, it is said (not sure about this, either) more about connection than competition, so destroy less in the course of management. Now even NASA is saying that the first Mars mission should probably be all-female as women are smaller and consume less oxygen, food and water, making the margin of safety for long spaceflights even better. Thanks for the references. I collect them. One historian said that, whether on the right or left, we have been dealing with fascism in some form since the mid-1800s. I think that's right. Toss in religion as a MAJOR, not ancillary, force in fascism, and you have got a REAL problem. It was clearer in Spain, but in Nazi Germany, the Hitler Youth met in Lutheran Churches until the Lutherans finally freaked. Then Hitler created the Reich's church -- because FASCISM HAS TO BE ORDAINED BY GOD. It's so vicious that only then can it have any kind of legitimacy.
Interesting to link fascism to male wealth. It's certainly linked to male dominance; I've never heard of a society that's led by autoritarian females? Sad that so many (mostly white) women fall for this BS. And yes -- RELIGION!!! Catholics: completely patriarchial/authoritarian. And I just read about some Baptist churches that won't allow female ministers any more. That's MY problem: WHY do people (women f.e.) go along? Let it happen, even when it hurts them? People are gullible and stupid and don't like to think for themselves. Sad.
Well, I think fascism connects there, but I think male wealth and power REALLY connect to abortion. Women became pro-life -- of course, women have no life so it's not really pro-life -- for different reasons. But the super reason men do it, I think, is that they want women out of the work force for 20-25 years with 2-4 kids so they don't compete: so men can take all the good jobs, control all the money, not have to take orders, and rule the roost. It's not pretty.