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, 5 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 7 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 stealing (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." -- Glenn Woiceshyn

Also see: The trouble with the ancient "left-right" political spectrum:HERE,

The "Government=Society" Fallacy HERE,

Centralized vs. Multiple Economies:HERE,

Collectivism vs. Individualism:HERE,

Socialism "vs." Fascism:HERE,

"Berserk in Berserkely":HERE,

The "Nolan Charts":HERE,

Price Controls:HERE,

Campaign Finance "Reform":HERE

The Liberal-Corporate Complex:HERE

"Paint their swastiKa green": HERE, and

Quotations and aphorisms HERE.
 
 

"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"

"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

"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

"You don't have to scratch liberalism very deeply to find socialism underneath, nor socialism to find authoritarianism underneath." -- Don Luskin

"It has been well said that really up-to-date liberals do not care what people do, as long as it is compulsory." -- George Will

Corruption, Political Correctness and the "NEW FASCISTS" of the Democratic Party 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 A phone call from the idea police

"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 "We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society." -- Hillary Clinton, 1993

"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected." -- G. K. Chesterton

"When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?" -- Henry David Thoreau

Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning (Hardcover) by Jonah Goldberg (Click HERE)