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Fascism: Liberal Fascism
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Fascism, in many respects, is an ideology of negativism: anti-liberal, anti-socialist, anti-Communist, anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian, etc., and in some of its forms anti-religion. As a political and economic system in Italy, it combined elements of corporatism, totalitarianism, nationalism, and anti-communism.
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Mussolini in Milan, Italy first founded Fascism on March 23, 1919. Fascism derives it's name from an ancient Roman symbol of authority a bundle of rods and a ax, those familiar with the reverse side of the Mercury dime has seen a fasces. But it's roots and philosophy go back further to the French Revolution and the rise of Modernism. It was Rousseau, who is best known for eloquently stating these modern social theories. The response to the French Revolution and Modernism brought forth an intellectual bonanza of political theory: Marxism, socialism, fascism, liberalism, modern conservatism, communism and various flavors of participatory democracy.
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Race did help turn the tables of American public opinion on Fascism. But it had nothing to do with the Jews. When Mussolini invaded Ethiopia, Americans finally started to turn on him. In 1934 the hit Cole Porter song “You’re the Top” engendered nary a word of controversy over the line “You are Mussolini!” When Mussolini invaded that poor but noble African kingdom the following year, it irrevocably marred his image, and Americans decided they had had enough of his act. It was the first war of conquest by a Western European nation in over a decade, and Americans were distinctly unamused, particularly liberals and blacks. Still, it was a slow process.
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Fascism differs from its close cousins, Communism and aristocratic conservatism, in several important ways. To understand these differences is to see how classical liberalism offers a completely different view of social and economic organization, a perspective that departs radically from the views of both right and left, as those terms are understood in contemporary political language.
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Goldberg asserts that Liberal Fascism is different from fascism of the past because today’s left are pacifists rather than militarists; their plan is to nanny, not to bully. Still, he warns that this method can be just as politically hazardous.
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