No it wasn't. Like never in fact. We would live in a very different society if this was the case. What happened is the twisted usage of some of the doctrine of communism as tools for authoritarian regimes.
Ok
I've heard James Bond villains deliver better speaches.
Welp, I've learned a new word tonight
Fascism is not a fixed ideology. Its an ideology that can adapt to different systems. Also important point, fascism is not just a established system. Fascism start in our heads.
If you want to see if you are a potential fascist or not, instead of looking at your liberatariannism, lets look at what you are and what you believe in... Antifascist Umberto Eco, who lived under fascism and was educated with fascism, reduced the key element sof the core principles of fascism that he called UR fascism (eternal fascism) in 14 points:
- The cult of tradition. Do find yourself defending your values, your heritage and your traditions mate ? If yes, you can check this parameter.
- The rejection of modernism. Looking at the way you act toward social sciences and progressism, I'd say you are right under the radar here. I will check this parameter for you.
- The cult of action for action. Its the notion that actions are better than thinking. Its the principle of acting because acting is what makes us live. Do you find yourself in that ? If yes, check this parameter.
- Disagreement is treason. The notion that disagreeing with your ideology would be like betraying you. Its the notion that consider that critic of the hegemony is problematic. Looking at the way you critic woke people who critic the capitalist system, I'd say that this point is also for you. Parameters checked.
- Fear of difference. Are you against intruders, migrants and overall minorities in general ? Just a question... If yes, you can check this parameter.
- Appeal to social frustration. Well you are lucky, this is someting that I've never seen you do. But the moment you start believing that - let's say for example - people who don't work are "parasite".. you can check this point.
- The obsession with a plot. This is the notion that follower of fascism must feel besieged. This must therefore be help by a form of paranoya that there is a "plot" concerning the civilisation of the follower.. Little question, do you believe that leaders of the world wants to create a negative "new world order" through leftism ? If yes, then you can check this parameters too.
- The enemy is both strong and weak. Did you ever said to yourself that the leftist ideology was a major danger of the world, but also that those people were just "pussies" or a bunch of white knights with no real and strong values ?" If yes, you can check this parameter.
- Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. In Ur fascism, there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle. If you find yourself in this affirmation, check this point.
- Contempt for the weak. Have you ever said to yourself that poor people are just weak people who are doing nothing to up their chances at life and made the wrong choices and that Billionnaire are people worthy of great respect ? If yes, that would be a form of elitism and you can therefore check this parameter.
- Everybody is educated to become a hero. Do you believe in the idea that great men shape the world ? And the more great men we have, the better the world will be ? If yes, you can check this parameter.
- Selective populism. If you that the emotional response of a selected group of citizen can be presented and accepted as the voice of the people, let's say for example if you think that the hate of leftism is shared by the entire world, well you can check this parameter.
- Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. This is the vision that the impoverished vocabulary and elementary syntax are good tool to create a better society. For example, if you think that the speeches of Donald Trump are amazing for the comprehension of society, you can check this parameter.
So, how many parameters did you checked ? If you added none to those I checked, good, you are not a potential fascist, just a far rightist a little bit lost. But if you check a majority of the point.. start asking yourself some questions.
I never throw that label mate
If you see me one day label someone "a fascist" on this forum.. be sure to check that they are still whitelisted here 24 hours later. Because I won't rest until they are nuked out of the forum one way or another. I'm not joking with fascism.
Yes you are. I demonstrated the existence of this genocide with numbers and documentation by researchers.
If you keep denying this genocide done by portuguese people (but also by others), you are a genocide denier. Simple as that. Don't make me put you in the same box as Herrera.
When we talk about human behaviors, a civilisation is not mesured by the level of technology, but by the level of humanity.
Those people builded entire nations where the land was common and shared. Those people were far more civilized than those who came to destroyed them even if they didn't have the technological advantages.
So come back to earth a little for once and stop with the colonialist mindset.
This doesn't change my argument mate :/
What those definitions explain is that sociologically gender is a social construct. Its simple as that.
And it doesn't say that there are only two gender, its say that in our society genders refer to the norm associated with the notion of being a man or a women. Which means that gender can take very different shapes. In reality there is an large quantity of what we call gender because there is a larg way of associating the norm we link with the notion of being a man or a woman with the way some people live.
Gender is a spectrum. Sometimes even a spectrum that can evolve in time. A spectrum that represent the oscillation of the norm we put on social construct relative to feminity and masculinity. Its not two fixed point, its the reflexion of the social constructs people attributed themself with.
I short, there are not two genders, but 5, 10, maybe even a hundred depending on who you are, what culture you are born into and the way you are internally evolving.
What people are confusing with gender are sexual characteristics and even then this is also not binary.
Independant press IS a form of activism.
People might have forgotten it, but journalism is not supposed to be neutral. Journalism is supposed to be the weapon of the people against those who are in power.
Journalism is supposed to be a counter power. And right now... mainstream journalism are following the line of the powers : liberalism.
You can see a similar fascist incantation under the words "Work, family, patry" in France's Vichy's regim under Nazi occupation.
Ironically (not really), you will sometimes here the same words repeated by neoliberals and "centrist" in France nowadays..
I remember that when I was very little (10 or so), I loved to draw Svatikas everywhere on school tables, I didn't knew what Nazism was or why it was so bad at the time, I only knew that I loved drawing the shape. I felt robbed the day I understood I could never draw them again..
I hope one day someone will have the guts and courage to take back this symbol out of fascist's hands.
Not really no.