Originally Posted by
ArmoredDragoon
I have a small collection of foreign and old currencies, and among my collection is a 5 reichsmark Hindenburg coin (the version with eagle and swaztika on the back.) On this coin is written: "Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz" which means "The community comes before the Individual".
This quote is pretty much the cornerstone of fascism, and US conservatives don't even begin to fit that description, and in fact they're quite the opposite because they very much prefer individualism. Antifa on the other hand, or at least those who seem sympathetic of it, do seem to favor the community over the individual, and it does seem that their leaders prefer kristallnacht style operations against their perceived enemies. Just food for thought.
And on a tangent, it's ironic that a lot of far left groups love to denounce fascism and yet they tend to personify it. Stalinism for example is only superficially different from fascism, and his overall message was that fascism is bad and the west is bad because they were supposedly still fascist (the Berlin Wall, which came after Stalin, was labeled the 'anti-fascist line' and was supposedly to keep the fascists out, though admittedly some European countries such as Spain remained fascist well after world war 2.)
That said, many westerners can't seem to tell the difference between most forms of dictatorship and then fascism, and there's quite a difference. IMO the country that best resembles fascism today is Venezeula. In some respects they resemble outright National Socialism, aka Nazi ideology, with their leader Maduro using similar tactics as Hitler. Notice Hitler gained support by creating an enemy in the Jews and blamed them for all of his country's problems; Maduro does basically the same, only with Americans instead of Jews. Fascism (as Benito Mussolini coined the term) has nothing to do with racism, by the way, that concept came later with Germany's National Socialism which threw race and ethnicity into the national socialist identity.
By the way, many accuse Trump of being fascist, but the glove just doesn't fit. You can argue that he behaves in many ways like a dictator, but he doesn't seem to value the community over the individual like real fascists do. His ideology is somewhere else entirely.
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Anybody besides myself notice that these armed Antifa groups are wearing brown shirts?