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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.” -- Robert A Heinlein |
"In principle, there are
only two fundamental political viewpoints. That
is, two contradictory ends of the 'political spectrum.' Those two principles are freedom and slavery." - Mark Da Cunha |
“Fascism, Nazism, Communism and
Socialism are only superficial variations of the same monstrous theme—collectivism.” - Ayn Rand |
"Any so-called political 'spectrum' with tyranny at both ends is a trap." - Rick Gaber |
The old "left-right" spectrum
is used to imply that
freedom is somehow a “compromise” between
two allegedly “opposite” excuses for
dictatorship. This is beyond absurd,
beyond ridiculous; it’s
preposterous. And
yet that’s what the purveyors of the
“left-right” political spectrum want you to
believe. Rationality and
sanity require rejecting
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Whenever
you see a "definition" of fascism that includes
"strident, even vicious nationalism and/or racism,"
realize that this is an example of DEFINING BY NON-ESSENTIALS, even by style, which is NOT helpful because they're NOT unique to fascism at all. |
••►THIS is the LIVE-AND-LET-LIVER versus CONTROL-FREAK Spectrum◄•• |
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Demands for
High Taxes
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Disrespect
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Government
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Government Control
of Businesses and Demands for harsh punishments for
victimless commercial behavior (including setting
ones' own prices or wages, engaging in so-called
"insider trading," moving facilities overseas,
competing with protected monopolies and/or setting
one's own criteria for selecting customers or
employees)
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Demands for
Quotas In Private Businesses and Organizations based
upon Race, Nationality, Ethnicity or Class
Consciousness
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Demands for
Immigration Quotas based upon Race, Nationality,
Ethnicity or Class Consciousness
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Demands for
Personal Sacrifices in the name of "the
proletariat," "the master race," national pride,
the fatherland, the "common good," "society,"
"public service," "for 'your own'
good," national defense or ANYthing (even when not
threatened by foreign aggressors)
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Disrespect
for Free Speech; Demands for Speech Codes Among
Adults and even censorship in non-government public
communications (for "political correctness" or
"to protect the children" or whatever)
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Demands for
State-Enforced Restrictions on, and harsh
punishments for, victimless personal behavior (including
hiring your own doctor, teacher, or sexual partner,
using medicines or narcotics not "approved" by the
government, etc.)
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Demands for
Government to be Cut Down to, and Kept Small by,
Strictly-Enforced Constitutional Limits
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Respect for
the Rights of Individuals to Own and Carry Weapons
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Respect for
Individual Rights in ALL
Peaceful Activities
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Now, for those defiantly ignorant folks who insist on calling everyone with whom they disagree a "fascist," note that:
Of the 13 hallmarks listed above, FASCISTS share 9 with Socialists, 9 with American "Liberals", 7 with Authoritarian Populists, 4 with American Conservatives, and NONE with the Founding Fathers or the Libertarians.
FASCISTS share the positions taken EITHER in favor OR against the 13 hallmarks listed above with Socialists 12 times, with Authoritarian Populists 11 times, with Conservatives 6 times, with the Founding Fathers twice, with Libertarians once and with American "Liberals" ALL 13 times. Note: Although American Liberals don't usually advocate the outright theft (or "nationalizing" if you prefer) of businesses and other private property by government any more, they often praise, defend and even advocate foreign dictators who still do, especially if those dictators were democratically elected.
It
would appear that only the Founding Fathers and the
libertarians avoid confusing government with society, have a
good grasp of how all government activity has unintended
consequences, and whose public policy principles are based
on the golden rule -- in other words, on individualist
morality, not collectivist legality."One byproduct of individualism is
benevolence -- a general attitude of good will towards
one's neighbors and fellow human beings. Benevolence is
impossible in a society where people violate each others'
rights [as collectivist
systems institutionalize]." -- Glenn
Woiceshyn
See: OBAMA IS NOT A SOCIALIST by
Thomas Sowell, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Economics, Stanford
University HERE.
"I'm much interested and deeply
impressed by what Mussolini accomplished and by his evidenced
honest purpose restoring Italy." - FDR Letter to U.S.
Ambassador Breckinridge Long, 16 June 1933; Breckinridge Long
Papers, Box 135, Library of Congress.
Also see: The trouble with the ancient "left-right" political spectrum: HERE, DON'T call anyone a "Nazi" unless they advocate these 16 policies.Fascism vs. Capitalism: The Central Ideological Conflict of Our Times HERE. Socialism "vs." Fascism HERE,
HERE
and:HERE, The Democrats' Embrace of Fascism HERE, The "Government=Society" Fallacy HERE, Centralized vs. Multiple Economies:HERE, Collectivism vs. Individualism:HERE, "Paint
their swastiKa green":
HERE.
More on
the "left-right" spectrum HERE,
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The Nolan Charts:HERE, Campaign Finance "Reform":HERE
The Liberal-Corporate Complex:HERE ![]() Price Controls:HERE, "Berserk in Berserkely":HERE, Find another freedom-vs.-slavery spectrum HERE.
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The Left/Right scale is a misleading way of comparing political systems. It doesn't measure anything." -- Marshall Fritz | ||
"What, actually, is the difference between communism and fascism? Both are forms of statism, authoritarianism. The only difference between Stalin’s communism and Mussolini’s fascism is an insignificant detail in organizational structure." -- Leonard E. Read, in "Neither Left Nor Right" | ||
“Fascism and communism are not two
opposites, but two rival gangs fighting over the same
territory . . . both are variants of statism,
based on the collectivist principle that man is the
rightless slave of the state.” -- Ayn Rand, "The Art of
Smearing" in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal |
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"If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Naziism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities." -- celebrated historian Paul Johnson | ||
"The superficial distinctions of Fascism, Bolshevism, Hitlerism, are the concern of journalists and publicists; the serious student sees in them only one root-idea of a complete conversion of social power into State power." -- Albert Jay Nock | ||
“You want to know what fascism is like? It is like your New Deal!”- Benito Mussolini to Grover Whalen, 1939 | ||
"The Radical Centre seem to have the same obsession with control that the fascists and communists had, but unlike them, it is control for control's sake rather than in the service of some clear ideology ... They do not seek the triumph of Volk or the dictatorship of the proletariat, they just seek to replace all social interactions with politically mediated interactions. They seek to regulate everything via a total state that ... just wants a world in which nothing whatsoever is private, everything is political. Their symbol is not the Hammer and Sickle or the Swastika, it is the CCTV camera." -- Perry de Havilland | ||
"Those who complain the most about the quality of the people in power are the ones who put all that power there in the first place. Well, what kind of people did they expect it all to attract, anyway? Sheesh!" -- Rick Gaber | ||
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"Free enterprise capitalism exists only when people in the private sector are free to pursue their own interests without direction from government. When politicians start passing laws to tell them what to do, or bureaucrats start issuing edicts to tell them what to do, it is no longer capitalism; it's fascism." -- Rick Gaber | ||
waaaayy too stupid (or evil) to deserve respect." -- Bert Rand |
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THE TRUE BELIEVER CAMPUS FASCISM "Political Correctness" leads to kangaroo courts Remember ORWELL: "Hate Crimes" mean..Thought Police! FIGHTING MIND CONTROL AT AMERICAN COLLEGES HATE CRIMES & BUSINESS PEOPLE TWO STEPS AHEAD OF THE THOUGHT POLICE THE NEW THOUGHT POLICE |
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"We are Socialists, we are enemies
of the capitalistic economic system for the explotation
of the economically weak, with it's unfair salaries,
with it's unseemly evaluation of a human being according
to wealth and property instead of responsibility and
performance and we are all determined to destroy this
system under all conditions" -- Adolph Hitler, May 1
1927
"Fascist ethics begin ... with the acknowledgment that it is not the individual who confers a meaning upon society, but it is, instead, the existence of a human society which determines the human character of the individual. According to Fascism, a true, a great spiritual life cannot take place unless the State has risen to a position of pre-eminence in the world of man. The curtailment of liberty thus becomes justified at once, and this need of rising the State to its rightful position." -- Mario Palmieri, "The Philosophy of Fascism" 1936 "To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole." -- Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, National Socialist German Workers' ("Nazi") Party "We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society." -- Hillary Clinton, 1993 |
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"Free enterprise capitalism exists only when people in the private sector are free to pursue their own interests without direction from government. When politicians start passing laws to tell them what to do, or bureaucrats start issuing edicts to tell them what to do, it is no longer capitalism; it's fascism." -- Rick Gaber | ||
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