Fascism?

[jon1959]

Jon has conveniently disappeared without answering this post and my question on what Fascist intellectuals he has actually read. But he has read fascist graffiti....

Not disappeared but had other things to do and unwilling to feed some strands of this thread. However (and this will be a mistake):

Lither (or Slither or Hitler) - you are either a determined WUM or (as you appear) a racist, white nationalist and a neo-Nazi. Like your co-thinkers in the USA (from the KKK to the Proud Boys) you also tick the boxes of Fox endorsed conspiracy theories, support for an authoritarian Russian mafia-police state, and a dollop of antisemitism. The only surprises are that you don't yet appear to be a Zionist (maybe that is more an evangelical Protestant view than Catholic?) and you have some confused distinction in your head about significant differences between Italian and German fascism. There were differences of course, but not significant. Same ideology. And your hero Oswald Moseley was a close friend of Hitler - he married Diana Mitford (another Nazi like her sister Unity) in Goebel's home with Hitler as guest of honour. We would have been on opposite sides at Cable Street. You crack on with reading your scumbag 'fascist philosophers' and avoiding questions about what you disagree with in the writings of their critics. I won't be joining you.

James - I have never worn a CCCP top in my life. In my late teens and twenties I described myself as a communist - but not of the Stalinist or Maoist varieties. The people who thought like me in earlier decades were mostly murdered by Stalin. There has never been a communist paradise anywhere in the world. There have been liberation movements and governments that struggled to transform their societies and economies in the face of blockades and military threats - often with diplomatic and trade ties to the Soviet Union as the only way to survive. Of all the examples across Latin America, North Africa and the Far East, in my opinion Cuba was the most interesting and deserving of support. That is despite harsh repression of dissent (and harsher of sabotage) and an economy that barely survived the US blockade. They got many things wrong - inevitably - but for over 40 years transformed education, health, agriculture and sent out doctors and engineers across the global south to help others. But I don't call myself a communist any more. I still hold some of the same views I did in my twenties, but in practice I have been an active trades unionist and a socialist in the social democratic mainstream for most of my life. I was never a 'supporter' of the Soviet Union - although clearly I believe in collectivism.

[JamesWales]

Not disappeared but had other things to do and unwilling to feed some strands of this thread. However (and this will be a mistake):

Lither (or Slither or Hitler) - you are either a determined WUM or (as you appear) a racist, white nationalist and a neo-Nazi. Like your co-thinkers in the USA (from the KKK to the Proud Boys) you also tick the boxes of Fox endorsed conspiracy theories, support for an authoritarian Russian mafia-police state, and a dollop of antisemitism. The only surprises are that you don't yet appear to be a Zionist (maybe that is more an evangelical Protestant view than Catholic?) and you have some confused distinction in your head about significant differences between Italian and German fascism. There were differences of course, but not significant. Same ideology. And your hero Oswald Moseley was a close friend of Hitler - he married Diana Mitford (another Nazi like her sister Unity) in Goebel's home with Hitler as guest of honour. We would have been on opposite sides at Cable Street. You crack on with reading your scumbag 'fascist philosophers' and avoiding questions about what you disagree with in the writings of their critics. I won't be joining you.

James - I have never worn a CCCP top in my life. In my late teens and twenties I described myself as a communist - but not of the Stalinist or Maoist varieties. The people who thought like me in earlier decades were mostly murdered by Stalin. There has never been a communist paradise anywhere in the world. There have been liberation movements and governments that struggled to transform their societies and economies in the face of blockades and military threats - often with diplomatic and trade ties to the Soviet Union as the only way to survive. Of all the examples across Latin America, North Africa and the Far East, in my opinion Cuba was the most interesting and deserving of support. That is despite harsh repression of dissent (and harsher of sabotage) and an economy that barely survived the US blockade. They got many things wrong - inevitably - but for over 40 years transformed education, health, agriculture and sent out doctors and engineers across the global south to help others. But I don't call myself a communist any more. I still hold some of the same views I did in my twenties, but in practice I have been an active trades unionist and a socialist in the social democratic mainstream for most of my life. I was never a 'supporter' of the Soviet Union - although clearly I believe in collectivism.

Cheers for answering..fair play.