What is FASCISM? 

Ew, so... Pretentious

The "movement" trying to rebrand the Nazis as non-fascist is largely lead by....well...fascists. They're trying to get away from historic fascism so they can sell you on future fascism.

​@@Lscott-fk2snwhat about it?

@@maxonmendel5757 its a reference

If fascists don't have an economic goal, it's because their economic goal was the status quo. The already stablished economic system. Capitalism's emergency button that they use every time there's a crisis and they must repress a worker revolution at all costs. They put up a theater to blame the current crisis in everything but the current mode of production.

Parents telling me to brush my teeth is an unjustifiable hierarchy

And if you don't obey and fight back it's called revolution

At least they don't send you to the shower! Sorry if this dark joke makes anyone sad

we shall band together a show our form of ultra nationalism (stay awake till 3am)

Socialists are very clear about what they claim is fascism - its supposed to be capitalism with the mask off. It's naked exploitation of the proletariat. So what are socialist states like? Workers are ruthlessly exploited to profit a socialist elite. All property is controlled b a socialist aristocracy. Rural workers are forced onto socialist-run plantations and kept there against their will. An entire secret police apparatus is maintained to keep workers from escaping. Anon who makes note of this is labeled as art of the "far right" and harassed. Socialists who left Marxism in the 1930s and 1940s were right. These people are Left fascists. Now theyre all thats left of the socialists. Left fascism is what socialism has been since the rise of Lenin.

Well it can be defined with a single sentence though...

"Everything within the state, everything for the state, nothing without the state." Done, defined it for you, if you wanna know what that all entails, go watch an actual video about fascism, every ideology can be summed up as to their core belief in one sentance, and if someone claims it cannot, it tells you that the person does not understand the ideology at all.

@@vonvonvonvonvonvonvonvonvo7009you could definitely apply that sentence to some current non fascist countries

@@vonvonvonvonvonvonvonvonvo7009 "Everything within the state, everything for the state, nothing without the state." nah thats not fascism, it can be any authoritarian ideology like communism wtf

@@justcallmehaterik worth noting that in actual communism the state isnt actually supposed to even exist, and is meant to only act in an adminstrative role until power, land and resources have been adequately distributed among equal communes, thus the name Communism. Communism as we've seen it, be it the soviets, the chinese or cubans, has been what some would call "red fascism", aka fascism dressed up with the pretense of socialist ideology.

i still don’t see why this is treated as facsist lore almost, while ignored as a major tool in the actions of almost all dictatorships in particular but also the more extreme authoritarian regimes. It’s basically just at its core a more extreme take on the political process of scapegoating and diverting attention to some type of generally either vulnerable minority group or belief system, or a more hyperbolic and metaphorical arch enemy, usually in the form of an entire country, religion, economic system or class and of course race. Almost all of these types of eternal fights have been seen in post ww2 non democratic regimes (although even the US, and Western Europe did so to a smaller degree with communism and concepts like 1st world vs 2nd world, the difference is these did not stand as official state enforced beliefs and often got challenged by opposition within the west, and at least allowed discourse, it’s also evident for countries like mine bordering the iron curtain and now bordering Russia that communist expansion WAS a severe threat as the soviets wanted our arse very much) The main example i see as almost fascistic levels of this victimising and warlike nationalist indoctrination that are still never called out for it much, are the Islamic, socialist states of the 60s, and the state capitalist theocracies of modernity, in regards to either Jews, The “collective west” and of course non believers, as a less known example. Will the main obvious example is cult of personality type communist regimes, mostly Mao who went as far as warring with Chinas own traditions and cultural heritage, ie tearing down palaces, massive renaming campaigns removing old roots, and cultural revolution declaring a simply ludicrous war on “anti revolutionary” elements including Intellectualism, Rightism, traditionalism(mostly targeting religious beliefs) and other stuff targeting basically anyone who threatened maos power under a guise of this. The reason I go into so much detail btw is because through those examples and ideas I simply cannot see the difference between fascism and other regimes that seem to avoid that political label based on either religion or political compass leaning… i think the lack of any clear understanding of what fascism is besides the fascists own explanation and definition, and of course the facsist states and actions of ww2. But even then I’ve seen people claim Imperial Japan in ww2 WASNT fascist because Fascists have to be white supremacists apparently… yeah the definition needs work

Hmmmm, I wonder why that sounds so strangely familiar?

My understanding is that this is why it's so important for us to be diligent and not let our society give in to entropy. Once the other systems start failing a sizeable enough chunk of the population, especially if they hold majority, than more and more fascism starts sounding appealing. I worry that a lot of these factors are present in modern America. I really hope both parties can step away from the edge so to speak of each extreme. The more the left and right are divided, the more it feels like they idealize fascist tools towards eachother

Sounds like communism

Yes it is founded on a conflict because it’s based on dialectical materialism. The Marxist method for solving conflicts. The term >>>THIRD

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I don't think you can consider him a fascist. Falangism is completely different than fascism

​@@pandysnufkin it is typically either considered fascist or pseudo fascist due to the existing similarities, and the fact that the ideas of falangism were primarily inspired by Italian Fascism.

hahaha, he might wanted to put Jose Antonio Urquiza and ended up putting Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera

I was wondering who that was, I'm mexican and had no idea, thanks for the clarification

Yeah it's also how the catholic church killed millions of people by burning them at the stake.

It is an allegory, not something that matters in every day life... i 8te people who makes deductions out of details

​@@pierren___a deduction would be me pointing out that fascism shares the same root word as the f-slur and acting like that means something

@@rttnkng thats my point

@@pierren___ yes i understand that is your point however your point isnt valid to op's comment. he just added an extra fun fact on an educational video and you got mad because it doesnt change your day to day life. you are the insufferable person here.

you watched a 25m vid in 5 minutes? impressive

​@@Aztecsoviet2.5x baby

TIK has a 5 hour video with primary sources on the topic

Just read books written by fascists.

@@rabbiezekielgoldberg2497 yeah that's probably not a good idea, most people with an open mind that try reading that material tend to grow to agree with the authors, and we can't have that because they're evil wypipo

you have absolutely no idea what youre talking about

Think more before you comment

@@based_dragon_0110he does, i dont know if i want to break it down for you tbh so ill just say to agree to disagree

Don't listen to those two idiots saying you're wrong, you were entirely correct. However, I would add a caveat that 'fashizzum' is not just about finding 'a third way', it was also a 'return to form', where it points out that the so-called 'enlightenment era' was the origin of liberalism and inevitably communism; because of their failings, we need to look back to the old ways to properly understand the world. However, it was also not a luddite style movement; embracing technological advancements. In short, it's a new dog with old tricks.

Фанатов Дюны в комментариях встречаю больше чем фанатов "Саги о форкорсиганах" и Джоджо...

Kind of like the antifa cult.

Are you entirely braindead or just trying to start an argument for self satisfaction?@@marcshields3677

What a nonsense lol. The author of the book openly says that imperial society is totally feudalistic. Did you even read the book?

That’s not even close to the definition lol

You talk about fascism a lot because your country and many others are run by socialists, who love calling things fascist so they can present themselves as the protectors

If it werent for funny moustache fascism would be praised lol

⁠@@lasersummit7895agreed. Looking at what we have today. A form of fascism-lite is exactly what we need, in the UK anyway. But it’s too late, the rot is seeping out of the cities now.

Apparentemente le scuole non hanno avuto molto effetto🥲 guarda chi hanno eletto...

Si beh guarda, non sono qui a giudicare i gusti elettorali che una persona può avere perchè non è proprio il luogo ma onestamente penso che le persone che hanno votato per la maggiore siano state boomer, e quelli che si trovano a metà tra quello e i millenial quindi comunque il sistema era un po' diverso a partire dall'istruzione. Ovviamente parere mio quindi ci sta che uno la possa pensare diversamente@@tommasoastaldi2513

I dont think so

@@jww362 yeah it is

​@@jww362 youre disagreeing. Very fascist 🥵

Is when you be quiet and that information is classified its good we remade it for you

Fascism is when I have to work.

Agreed 👍👍👍

bro.... you realize that 95% of the information in this video is incorrect? Find better educators than some youtube shmuck. This is historically illiterate. There are several archivists these days that present only factual information. Typically found on gab

yeah holy shit i remember 2 month ago this guy had like 10k-20k or something subscribers

The worlds most violently, destructive political ideology would be communism. That is a fact. Which ideology is responsible for the most deaths?

he doesnt even deserve 100 subs. He is teaching you all incorrect history@@spacecadet1333

This, yes.

do you know what "essay" means?

@@Losangelesharvey Do you know what capitalisation means?

Exactly what I came here to say!

I have learned so much from this channel in just a few weeks.

And artful!

His channel is awesome

I dont think that word means what you think it means.

Cultured thug explains fascism better

Be careful how you use your hands when saluting.

We Dutch people still want back our bicycles

Fascism takes rook in Enlightment philosophy. Revolution, nationalism, socialism "end of history" all originate within it. "third way" comes from Haegelian synthesis

I salute u too o/

"Not using reason and bending science" Sounds more like our current elites. They hated individualism and democracy because they saw what it would lead to, and they were right

Then your bar is set pretty low.

... incredibly low ...

How many vids on fascism have you watched??

Born yesterday head-ass

@@KrSolarRay This one and... yes.

❤️❤️ ty!

@@HorsesOnYT "Histories most violently destructive political ideology"? *AHEM* Communism & it's body count has entered the chat.

@@HorsesOnYTfascism făsh′ĭz″əm noun A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism. A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government. Oppressive, dictatorial control. From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

Dude, you need to change that fact at 3:16. José Antonio Primo de Rivera was a Spanish fascist who never ruled a thing (yet his father was a so called "soft" dictator in the early 20's). Not Mexican whatsoever, man. Please

​@@7y7tartufowhat do you expect them to do? RU-vid removed video annotations...

Hi - thanks for this comment. I'm glad you brought this up. This is what my research showed on the subject of Franco: Despite using some fascist methods, Franco is not widely agreed to have been a fascist. In fact, most scholars would agree that the Franco regime was not fascist. While close in many ways, Franco's regime held ties to the church and did not mass mobilize in the way traditional fascists do. Franco also saw himself as restoring Spain to some former version of glory. Fascists look to revolutionize a nation and create something entirely new and unprecedented. Hope that's helpful! Thanks for watching.

Very good point. I'm old enough to have hitch-hiked through Franco's Spain. Got picked up by the Guardia for sleeping by the roadside! Their uniforms were straight out of WW2 - all leather, jackboots, and guns. They didn't brutalise me or anything - just let me out in the morning. It was all fine - they didn't even seem angry - if anything, they were amused! French cops (ostensibly non-fascist) were much worse. I'm also glad that Horses mentions the BUF (the British Union of Fascists). It is something that is not mentioned here in the UK much at all. But it should not be forgotten.

@@HorsesOnYT Interesting. didn't the fascists in italy had a myth of a once great italian people that dated from the roman empire? And that's where they derive the eagle symbol from? and they were just trying to make Italy great again or something like that? And for a system that manages to have the support of the masses. Wouldn't it make sense for it to adapt to the reality of these masses. Catholicism being a very strong institution for the spanish people of the time? To me franco's regime was clearly fascist. So was salazar's in portugal, all the latin american dictatorships, and recent political movements in countries like the USA (trump), UK (johnson), France (le pen), Italy (meloni (with several ties to the fascist party)), hungary (orban), turkey (erdogan), Brazil (bolsonaro), argentine (milei) and several others. If they're not a carbon copy of the fascist party of italy, "neofascist" wouldn't be too much of a stretch in my opnion.

@@ciro_costa i think you are using fascism way too broadly, perhaps more like authoritarian or conservative. combining trump and mussolini is dishonest, same as combining bernie and Pol pot.

@@lonle6506 Fair. But the characteristics are there. The appeal to an idealistic time that came before. The mass appeal. The reactionarism. Combat of labour rights. Cult of "god, nation and family". The list goes on.

I suppose it must have been something other than the content.

Yes I also saw that Fangalist and Legionism are two topics that weren't mentioned

I just commented that too, I dont get how he confused him for a Mexican lol

I downvoted and stopped looking the video only for that lol

Spanish falangism seeked to unite all Hispanic countries under it

@@SVRSK he confused the names, there it was a mexican called Jose Antonio Urquiza

Honestly

Fascism is when you’re either based and red pilled or based and blue pilled

That is true. In my opinion Nietzsche and intellectuals in general should be cautious for the reason of misinterpretation/manipulation by others of what they have said or done. There will always be bad people and thankfully there will always be good people as well, but it pays to be mindful of how you say what you say.

did you know hitler was a massive niezsche fan

@@user-nw9kk5zw2s and? H also liked dogs. It proves literally nothing. Moreover, H was never into philosophy, he wasn't clever enough, and couldn't properly utilize it. Nietzsche is an integral part of philosophy, he has nothing to do with IIWW and its atrocities. Many philosophers are adored by questionable people. Their philosophy being distorted doesn't mean it's evil. I study philosophy, and trust me, the übermenschen is not related to what people think. Nowadays, stoics are being devalued and misinterpreted by alphabros but their lack of actual passion and focus don't take from the core of the philosophy. You can read "Also sprach Zarathustra" with sensible commentary for yourself, and you'll see it has nothing to do with evil or domination. Nietzsche himself never identified with the idea of übermenschen. It's a story of loneliness, responsibility that noble knowledge Zarathustra wants to share with the world. You'll find no evil in Nietzsche's writings and people from all political spectrums acknowledge his lack of involvement in IIWW events. There were other "thinkers"involved in etho-research. I don't wanna be banned, so I won't get into it. But let the poor Friedrich be. He had a difficult life and a horrible end, we don't need to add to his issues calling him a nzi because the idea of übermenschen was misused. The same professor who taught us Marx's materialism, cried telling the story of Nietzsche loosing his ability to write, slowly becoming a prisoner of his bed 😭

please, as if we were told the truth about him. @@zogwort1522

I bet you've never even read nietzche, nietzche's logical conclusion clearly lead to fascism, that a country and people have self-determination.

Books by Jewish people , communist books , socialist books , books on sexology. Karl Marx's books were the first books burned in Germany....

Yes, seems like a certain political group is awfully similar to the NatSocs. Hmm.

@@Water_Destroys_Magnets good

@@TouringWolf42like leftists? Yes

Deep thoughts.

Japan was not fascist, it had some factors such as Authoritarianism, expansion via imperialism and heavy promotion of uniformity of thought and violence, but it also lacked other factors such as Paramilitarism, A single party dictatorship (the government was a coalition) and the Palingenesis or rebirth that is needed, the cult of personality was around the emperor who was a meant to be a figurehead and was portrayed as a divine being above politics. Japan was more of an example of Authoritarian conservatism.

You’re right, there is nothing revolutionary about Fascism

I guess you could define palingeneticism as both reactionary and revolutionary (if that’s not an oxymoron). Fascists don’t just oppose social progress and reform, but they actively seek to revert society to an idealised, distant past through revolutionary methods (ie. paramilitary violence). I might be reaching there though, I haven’t properly studied fascism since Christmas

@@willkp50 revolution is difficult to define, just like fascism. certainly the debate has never been settled- even among tendencies like anarchism or marxism, which place the idea of revolution at the very center of their theories, there is always internal disagreement over what defines both revolution and reactionary counterrevolution. its probably worth noting that none of these left wing movements consider a military coup to be revolutionary, while fascists absolutely would, with the reigns of state power trading hands (albeit outside of the lawful channels) instead of being defeated and dismantled. Franco's regime was absolutely a partially successful military coup, and both Hitler and Mussolini undermined the governments they belonged to from within and both were able to seize power without armed conflict.

@@willkp50 "they actively seek to revert society to an idealised, distant past" I'm not sure how this is accurate? What past are they reaching for? I find the concepts of Fascism as entirely modern.

@@JimbotheoneThe italians went for the roman empire and the germans for HRE and German Empire. Its called third reich for a reason.

Like zionism !

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If you want to learn what it is, the best 3 books are… 1. Origins and doctrine of fascism, by Giovanni Gentile 2. The philosophy of fascism, by Mario Palmeri 3. The coming corporate state, by Raven Thomson (which showed not only a syndicalist mode of production was possible for their economic ideas). Fascists were pretty prolific writers so there’s plenty of primary sources on the ideology

@sydmccreath4554 much obliged sir

It took a while to find this comment below many other comments with less peer approval. I wonder, why is that?

Fascism is simply a response to the rapid individualism, materialism, and secularism corrupting our world today. I hope it gets a foothold again, I’d take a Fascist government over a “liberal democracy” any day!

No fascism is pure evil.

It's not. Unless you think good research is opening a couple pop-history books and repeating a vague 3 point list of what fascism is expressed in sentiments, while waving away reading actual academic research on the political science and origins of fascism (turns out you can define fascist ideology very well if you trace back its development to it's 19th origins). Saying that as someone who wrote his thesis partially on this topic. This is just as deep or informative as "Conservatism wants to conserve things and don't like change" and "Marxists want to get rid of the rich to create a workers utopia"

@@sblbb929would you care to share your knowledge here then?

🅱@@RedexTwo

@@sblbb929 conservatism has been trampled by Trumpism which is wannabee fascism. Plain and simple. Marxism doesn't exist here.

He's wrong on several things in this video. Do your own research. Read Giovanni Gentile if you actually want to know what fascism is.

If you have studied "sociology" at university and talk about the "academic realm" you're most certainly part of the most leeching worthless "intellectual" group of trash amongst society. This is not a political statement, I just hate the professional managerial class of leeches who always butt in in every discussion of ideas they cannot define or comprehend.

As a sociology student how do you feel about zionism?

@@Iron_Wyvern the same giovanni gentile that was closely associated with mussolini?

@@Iron_Wyvern care to enlighten us on what those things are?

I feel like this video is saying that only historical fascists are fascists so we shouldn't be allowed to define it as a political theory or point out any similarities in today's governments.

​​@@JohnSmith-mc2zzI kind of got that vibe too, but idk if that was intentional or accidental.. It's concerning, especially after reading project 2025. We need to be talking about that more as it's a direct threat happening right now. I worry vids like this will only muddy the waters when facing real fascist characteristics like with project 2025 or other political issues of today. I do think people are too eager to jump towards whatever scary word is popular atm & that's very problematic on its own. However pointing out characteristics are also still important too.

@@ShinyNix86 I think if you're an avowed leftist you have an alternative definition of fascism which includes many conservatives and some liberals, in contradiction to this video. I agree the Republican agenda in our lifetime has been and will continue to be very sinister. Strangely, I think the "fascism" laid out in this video describes many self-described "Marxist-Lenninist" governments, the prime example today being China. Liberalism is under strong political attack, and people like social democrats and some anarchists are also inclined to defend it while simultaneously criticizing it.

this video is mentally weak and afraid to make a point. fascism and communism are almost the same, except fasciism doesn't own but only controls. Fascism and communism are central power systems, which make them both leftist. Right wingers want small government, no centralization and self defence being more important than having a police state like leftist regimes. Woke isa fasciist tool like hating jews was for Germany. It's identity politics. In canada we had banks freeze accounts for political opinions. tHe video maker here maybe is too afraid to understand his side is fasciist. In Canada we have a merger of banks, government, media, and corporations. We have a government that funds the media and controls the algorithms of the whole internet here./ Fasciism isn't so hard to understand. Anyone trying to make it difficult to understand is trying to fool you.

@@JohnSmith-mc2zz Modern fascists like the group Casapound take their main inspiration from the Jamahiriya of Muamar Gaddafi and talk of emulating China, and are also far more Pan-European seeing Italy as 1 part of a Europe that views the United States as the enemy of a forming Eurasia. This is very different from 20th century fascism so it’s important to focus on the core ideas

Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera isn't a mexican fascist, he is the Spanish founder of the fascist movement in Spain, La Falange 3:16

perfect ? nah

It hurts because most definitions of fascism found online, they include the term right wing, but if you remove that meaningless term.... You get a straight up definition of communism. Then you look up what political ideologies the founders of fascism had... and all of them were socialists with a few marxists. It's an authoritarian ideology born from socialism where the party controls both the state and the businesses so similar to communism that after the starvation period, communist nations become fascist ones.

I prefer option 4. look and behold; here I am.

@@Solarsurfer88 "So fascism is when I'm against authoritarian governments, against discrimination, and love dogs? Nice"

@@juanrodriguez9971 choose your own adventure

I get told "Nazi Germany" and nothing else

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