Fascism: Idolatry of the State

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🗓️ 8 January 2024

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 134 Fascism wasn't just a "bad thing" that happened in the first half of the twentieth century, and it's not just a bogus word the Left throws around today about everyone and everything it doesn't like. It was an explicit totalitarian ideology of state power that arose as a reaction to Communist provocation and libertine excesses in the 1920s and 1930s. That doesn't go far enough in describing it, though. It is, in fact, the dialectical antithesis of Marxism and libertinistic "liberalism," which is to say that it is an ideology that has many things in common with Marxism while positioning itself as its philosophical and political opposite. In fact, Fascism is a form of idolatry: idolatry of a state acting as God the Father of a people whose lives are given meaning by submitting fully to its advancement and glory. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay reads through Benito Mussolini's Doctrine of Fascism (https://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Germany/mussolini.htm) to make it very clear what Fascism is in every regard and why it's nothing like a good answer for Americans beset by Woke Marxism today. Join him to understand this crucially important issue. Get James Lindsay's new book, The Marxification of Education: https://amzn.to/3RYZ0tY Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2024 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay #Fascism

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0:00.0	The Hey everybody and welcome to another episode of the new discourse is podcast this is
0:23.4	James Lindsay we got to talk about fascism we spend a lot of time talking about
0:27.9	communism obviously I've dedicated most of my project to that but we should talk a little bit about fascism too and I want to actually
0:37.8	What I'm going to do in this episode is I'm going to actually read to you from Mussolini
0:42.0	I'm going to read to you the doctrine of fascism by
0:44.9	Benito Mussolini which he articulated and it's written as an article I
0:51.4	assume he wrote it down but maybe he spoke it.
0:54.4	It also borrows from a lot of quotes that are given his footnotes that I'll present to you as well for a context.
1:02.1	But this is from 1932, and I don't think you're
1:05.0	for a context, but this is from 1932,
1:03.8	and I don't think you're going to find a more clear
1:06.2	articulation of the principles of fascism.
1:09.0	So let's put the dates on this.
1:11.9	We're looking at this being in 1932. The fascists have had a fair amount of power in Italy for a while.
1:18.0	We can know that for example just from our understanding of communist history because the fascists were the ones who locked up Antonio Gramsci and
1:26.3	they locked up Antonio Gramsci obviously the father of cultural Marxism in
1:31.4	1926 and so at this point the fascists have had power in 1926.
1:32.7	And so at this point the fascists have had power for a little while and Mussolini is now writing
1:40.4	down the principles of or the doctrine of fascism itself.
1:46.2	What I'm reading to you is an article that's on the web that is a complete translation of
1:52.2	the doctrine of fascism with added context in
1:55.8	footnotes that was written together not just by Benito Mussolini himself but
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