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Thread ID: 7333 | Posts: 9 | Started: 2003-06-13
2003-06-13 22:16 | User Profile
Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. It thus repudiates the doctrine of Pacifism -- born of a renunciation of the struggle and an act of cowardice in the face of sacrifice. War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have courage to meet it. All other trials are substitutes, which never really put men into the position where they have to make the great decision -- the alternative of life or death....
...The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide: he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest, but above all for others -- those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after...
...Fascism [is] the complete opposite ofââ¬Â¦Marxian Socialism, the materialist conception of history of human civilization can be explained simply through the conflict of interests among the various social groups and by the change and development in the means and instruments of production.... Fascism, now and always, believes in holiness and in heroism; that is to say, in actions influenced by no economic motive, direct or indirect. And if the economic conception of history be denied, according to which theory men are no more than puppets, carried to and fro by the waves of chance, while the real directing forces are quite out of their control, it follows that the existence of an unchangeable and unchanging class-war is also denied - the natural progeny of the economic conception of history. And above all Fascism denies that class-war can be the preponderant force in the transformation of society....
After Socialism, Fascism combats the whole complex system of democratic ideology, and repudiates it, whether in its theoretical premises or in its practical application. Fascism denies that the majority, by the simple fact that it is a majority, can direct human society; it denies that numbers alone can govern by means of a periodical consultation, and it affirms the immutable, beneficial, and fruitful inequality of mankind, which can never be permanently leveled through the mere operation of a mechanical process such as universal suffrage....
...Fascism denies, in democracy, the absur[d] conventional untruth of political equality dressed out in the garb of collective irresponsibility, and the myth of "happiness" and indefinite progress....
...iven that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority...a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State....
The foundation of Fascism is the conception of the State, its character, its duty, and its aim. Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived of in their relation to the State. The conception of the Liberal State is not that of a directing force, guiding the play and development, both material and spiritual, of a collective body, but merely a force limited to the function of recording results: on the other hand, the Fascist State is itself conscious and has itself a will and a personality -- thus it may be called the "ethic" State....
...The Fascist State organizes the nation, but leaves a sufficient margin of liberty to the individual; the latter is deprived of all useless and possibly harmful freedom, but retains what is essential; the deciding power in this question cannot be the individual, but the State alone....
...For Fascism, the growth of empire, that is to say the expansion of the nation, is an essential manifestation of vitality, and its opposite a sign of decadence. Peoples which are rising, or rising again after a period of decadence, are always imperialist; and renunciation is a sign of decay and of death. Fascism is the doctrine best adapted to represent the tendencies and the aspirations of a people, like the people of Italy, who are rising again after many centuries of abasement and foreign servitude. But empire demands discipline, the coordination of all forces and a deeply felt sense of duty and sacrifice: this fact explains many aspects of the practical working of the regime, the character of many forces in the State, and the necessarily severe measures which must be taken against those who would oppose this spontaneous and inevitable movement of Italy in the twentieth century, and would oppose it by recalling the outworn ideology of the nineteenth century - repudiated wheresoever there has been the courage to undertake great experiments of social and political transformation; for never before has the nation stood more in need of authority, of direction and order. If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time. For if a doctrine must be a living thing, this is proved by the fact that Fascism has created a living faith; and that this faith is very powerful in the minds of men is demonstrated by those who have suffered and died for it.
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2003-06-14 06:08 | User Profile
What a welcome contrast OD is from "Mainstream America." Out there in AmeriKwa, instead of being able to read this literate essay about fascism, I'd get some smarmy liberal who'd complain about what he would spell as "facism." :rolleyes: The horror, those partisans of the face! :lol:
2003-06-14 19:28 | User Profile
Originally posted by PaleoconAvatar@Jun 14 2003, 00:08 * ** What a welcome contrast OD is from "Mainstream America." Out there in AmeriKwa, instead of being able to read this literate essay about fascism, I'd get some smarmy liberal who'd complain about what he would spell as "facism*." :rolleyes: The horror, those partisans of the face! :lol: **
Yes. It is quite unfortunate that the word fascism has acquired so many negative connotations in our time. Though I do not agree with all the precepts of the aforementioned ideology, I must say that there is much to be admired in the realpolitik policies practiced by the fascist state.
2003-07-08 05:20 | User Profile
Is the growth of Empire in fact a sign of health--or the sign of a high culture in its death throes of degeneracy? Il Duce sounds more like a PNAC neo-con than a statesman in many of these more grandiose paragraphs.
Benito's finest contributions were to the Public Works and economic system of Italy. Ezra Pound's "Jefferson and/or Mussolini" is superb reading on that score.
The Ethiopian filibuster was the beginning of the end of the Anni Fascisti...
2003-07-08 05:37 | User Profile
"Fascist" or "Fascism" are now just cliches in the minds of most Americans. Its a term to be thrown at any person you don't like or policy you despise. "Oh you're just being a fascist" "thats fascism".
On an episode of the cartoon series "King of Hill", one character complains to her roomates about smoking in the house, to which some gothic/hippe girl replies "You know who else had anti-smoking laws? HITLER!" :sm:
This example alone demonstrates how the terms "fascist", "fascism", "nazi" are commonly used. Often times what they term "fascist" have nothing to do with fascism, in fact might've been something the fascists heavily opposed. Such is the world we live in today.
2003-07-08 09:52 | User Profile
*Originally posted by Howard Campbell, Jr.@Jul 8 2003, 05:20 * ** Is the growth of Empire in fact a sign of health--or the sign of a high culture in its death throes of degeneracy? Il Duce sounds more like a PNAC neo-con than a statesman in many of these more grandiose paragraphs.
Benito's finest contributions were to the Public Works and economic system of Italy. Ezra Pound's "Jefferson and/or Mussolini" is superb reading on that score.
The Ethiopian filibuster was the beginning of the end of the Anni Fascisti... **
I guess its hard to argue against empire if the state is inspired by Imperial Rome, especially if the state is a total state.
2003-07-08 14:52 | User Profile
Originally posted by Leveller+Jul 8 2003, 03:52 -->
QUOTE* (Leveller @ Jul 8 2003, 03:52 ) <!--QuoteBegin-Howard Campbell@ Jr.,Jul 8 2003, 05:20 * ** Is the growth of Empire in fact a sign of health--or the sign of a high culture in its death throes of degeneracy? Il Duce sounds more like a PNAC neo-con than a statesman in many of these more grandiose paragraphs. Benito's finest contributions were to the Public Works and economic system of Italy. Ezra Pound's "Jefferson and/or Mussolini" is superb reading on that score.
The Ethiopian filibuster was the beginning of the end of the Anni Fascisti... **
I guess its hard to argue against empire if the state is inspired by Imperial Rome, especially if the state is a total state.**
Yes, especially given Italy's low national morale following the First World War--where as a member of the Allies they had expected Fiume and the Eastern Adriadic, at least.
It was natural for Mussolini to exploit the symbolism and heritage of Caesar and the Medici.
But America's 1898 fling at grabbing the old Spanish Empire brought us only geopolitical confrontation with Japan and millions of Philipinos, Puerto Ricans and Cubans to render our cities Third World in vibe.
And what true Englishman would not not exchange the brief decades of Kiplingesque glory to free Britannia's cities and villages of the unassimilable swarms of dusky former subjects--Jamaicans, Pakis, Ugandans and Nigerians?
Leveller
2003-07-08 20:04 | User Profile
Originally posted by Howard Campbell@ Jr.,Jul 8 2003, 14:52 * *...
Yes, especially given Italy's low national morale following the First World War--where as a member of the Allies they had expected Fiume and the Eastern Adriadic, at least.
It was natural for Mussolini to exploit the symbolism and heritage of Caesar and the Medici.
But America's 1898 fling at grabbing the old Spanish Empire brought us only geopolitical confrontation with Japan and millions of Philipinos, Puerto Ricans and Cubans to render our cities Third World in vibe.
And what true Englishman would not not exchange the brief decades of Kiplingesque glory to free Britannia's cities and villages of the unassimilable swarms of dusky former subjects--Jamaicans, Pakis, Ugandans and Nigerians?**
Howard, where do I sign? :D Seriously though, I don't believe Britains imperial history led to immigration in any direct way, because although it's often used as a justification, non-imperial European countries have it just as bad.
Faust
2003-07-11 05:40 | User Profile
Neo-Fascist? by Humberto Fontova [url=http://forum.originaldissent.com/index.php?showtopic=8562]http://forum.originaldissent.com/index.php...?showtopic=8562[/url]