Facts Ep. 3: Is Fascism Right Wing?
The Ben Shapiro Show
The Daily Wire
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🗓️ 4 September 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A fascist who wants to end this democracy. |
| 0:05.6 | Everybody knows what fascism means, right? |
| 0:08.6 | After all, our politicians and media members, they use the word constantly. |
| 0:12.7 | Everybody you don't like is a fascist. |
| 0:15.2 | Everybody you do like is fighting fascism. |
| 0:17.9 | But what exactly is fascism? |
| 0:19.9 | The one thing everybody seems to know is that fascism is like Hitler, and this means the chief characteristic of fascism. But what exactly is fascism? The one thing everybody seems to know is that |
| 0:21.6 | fascism is like Hitler, and this means the chief characteristic of fascism is the Holocaust. |
| 0:25.6 | Therefore, by the transit of property, everyone you don't like is fascist, every fascist is Hitler, |
| 0:30.6 | the most Hitler thing is the Holocaust. So, Donald Trump, or Ron Nassantis, or whomever the media |
| 0:36.6 | say that day is probably going to commit a holocaust. |
| 0:39.8 | Invariably, the people in the media who use the word fascism use it to refer to a politician of the right. |
| 0:45.1 | But it turns out that fascism is right-wing only when compared with outright communism. |
| 0:49.9 | Fascism in Europe was a reactionary force. |
| 0:52.3 | By American standards, fascism, which calls for unity of central authority and governmental control over private industry, among other agenda items, |
| 0:58.8 | was far more left-wing than right-wing, which is why so many members of the American left were originally quite warm toward Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. |
| 1:05.5 | To understand this, let's look briefly at the history of fascism. |
| 1:14.6 | Fashionism. Fascism is a very messy concept, in that it crosses streams with a wide variety of other |
| 1:18.5 | ideologies ranging from Marxism to religious integralism. So what are the common features of |
| 1:23.6 | fascism? First, fascism is characterized by a belief in the moral imperative of the centralized state. We can sense the roots of fascism. First, fascism is characterized by a belief in the moral imperative of the centralized |
| 1:29.1 | state. We can sense the roots of fascism going all the way back to Plato, who called for a philosopher |
| 1:34.2 | king in a utopian state, although there are those who read Plato as satiric in this call. |
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