Ep. 386 What Fascism Is, and Why It Isn't Just a Name for Everything People May Oppose
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2015
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Terms like fascist and fascism get thrown around indiscriminately by people who know how toxic they are and who want to demonize their opponents. But almost nothing and no one accused of fascism these days has the slightest connection to genuine fascism, and the result is confusion. What was fascism really all about? Paul Gottfried joins us for a lesson in intellectual history.
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| 0:00.0 | In a world of Democrats, there will be time for them to make profits. |
| 0:05.2 | Now's not that time. |
| 0:06.4 | And Republicans. |
| 0:07.9 | I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system. |
| 0:12.2 | You need a voice of liberty. |
| 0:15.0 | Look no further. |
| 0:16.7 | You've found it. |
| 0:18.4 | Tom Woods. |
| 0:21.1 | Beware, citizen. |
| 0:22.9 | You are now departing from the world of allowable opinion. |
| 0:26.9 | The Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:33.7 | Welcome to the Tom Woods Show, episode 386. |
| 0:38.4 | We're talking about fascism today because this is a concept and a word that gets thrown around all the time. |
| 0:46.3 | Well, this person is a fascist. |
| 0:48.7 | Well, why? |
| 0:49.3 | What makes that person a fascist? |
| 0:50.5 | Well, I don't like them is really what it boils down to. |
| 0:53.1 | Well, it turns out that there really is a definition of fascism. It really was a thing. It's not just whatever we happen to |
| 1:01.4 | dislike. And you see this done all over the place. It's mostly done by the left, but I see |
| 1:06.1 | neo-conservatives, I see libertarians, carelessly tossing around the word fascist as a synonym for something I dislike. |
| 1:14.6 | And that doesn't help clarify anything and it's annoying. |
| 1:18.6 | So it's important to go back into history and look at what we're talking about here. |
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