Return of Fascism?

The Clown Man

So my father said something to me the other night in his wise old fashion, from his must-be-wise-by-now old head.

He said, the thing about recession is that people get poor and pissed off, and when people are poor and pissed off, Fascism happens. It always happens. People get crazy and crazy stuff happens the world.

That got me thinking that I've seen plenty of examples of borderline if not outright fascism being shouted out in the open in the news and around me, and people are considerate of it.

Here is the non-politically motived definition of it from good old Wikipedia:

Wikipedia wrote:

Fascism recognizes the occurrence of class conflict, and advocates a resolution to end the division of classes within a nation and secure national solidarity. However fascism publicly favours proletarian culture while it rejects bourgeois culture, due to its association of proletarian culture with economic production and claims that proletarians as producers must have a dominant role in the nation. Fascism claims that cultural nationalization of society emancipates the nation's proletariat, and promotes the assimilation of all classes into a proletarian nation.

Fascism advocates a state-controlled and regulated mixed economy; the principal economic goal of fascism is to achieve autarky to secure national self-sufficiency and independence, through protectionist and interventionist economic policies. It promotes regulated private enterprise and private property contingent whenever beneficial to the nation and state enterprise and state property whenever necessary to protect its interests.

Fascism was founded during World War I by Italian national syndicalists who combined left-wing and right-wing political views. Fascists have commonly opposed having a firm association with any section of the left-right spectrum, considering it inadequate to describe their beliefs though fascism's goal to promote the rule of people deemed innately superior while seeking to purge society of people deemed innately inferior is identified as a prominent far-right theme. Fascism opposes multiple ideologies, such as communism, conservatism, liberalism, and social democracy.

So, are we seeing a return of Fascism?


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galwayrush

Heil Enda.:D

EoghanIRL

Nein

skeleton_boy

The crazies, conspiracy thread is in the other room.

The Clown Man

skeleton_boy wrote: »

The crazies, conspiracy thread is in the other room.

Are you calling my Da a conspiracy theorist??

Bipolar Joe

Can we please have a discussion about something that isn't about taxi drivers and the North without it resorting to "Hurr durr conspiracy theories is dat way hurr durr hurrpitty durr derp"? I'd like to learn shit, said in an easy to understand way. This is After Hours. If you don't like the conversation, move to another fucking table.

mike65

In before Run to da Hills

Doc Ruby

Ah me hoop. I remember my barber, chick the barbarian, may he rest in peace wherever he is now, telling me how the travellers were going to be ethnically cleansed before too long.

That was twenty years ago.

So no, I don't see fascism as being a big feature of the future.

Ghandee

Quite fitting then that we have the blue shirts in govt......

Something something Franco......

Richard Hillman

Its more socialism/communism under FG/Lab

dsmythy

You'll find news channels raving about the risks of the rise of the "far right" in the likes of Greece while completely ignoring the equally disturbing rise of the far left. It doesn't matter what you're doing your mass murder for after all.

Lando Griffin

The only type of fascism this country would take is of the Healy Rea dynasty. Then we could party like it was 1954.

Bad Santa

The Clown Man wrote: »

He said, the thing about recession is that people get poor and pissed off, and when people are poor and pissed off, Fascism happens.

No, when people are poor and pissed off, they ignore the ESB man, buy cheap wine and begrudgingly watch The Late Late Show.