I have a friend who studied the history of fascism. She gets angry when people call Trump (or some other villain du jour) fascist. "Words have meanings! Fascism isn't just any right-winger you dislike!" She says Narendra Modi, the current prime minister of India, is absolutely, literally, a fascist.

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[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I really think now that fascism was a specifically Italian cultural phenomenon and really the similar movements in other countries need their own names and we need another overarching name for this family of movements.

I mean there's resurgence of fascism in Italy right now and that party clearly has many socialist and working class focused policies in the mix.

I've also seen people say that non-European movements like the Ba'ath party or ISIS can't be fascist even though they are often a very close fit.

Maybe the term ur-facism is better for non Italian movements, as Umberto Eco used. https://web.archive.org/web/20170131155837/http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/

Edit: actually having read through the list CRT ticks a whole lot of those boxes.

[–]Markimus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

ISIS is a militant group fighting for Zionism and America, nothing to do with fascism. Ba'athism is pan-Arabic fascism though.

Maybe the term ur-facism is better for non Italian movements, as Umberto Eco used. https://web.archive.org/web/20170131155837/http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/

No, this 'definition of fascism' is beyond retarded. Can be applied to literally anything.