“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of the state and corporate power.” -- Benito Mussolini

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[–]Chipit[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

Negative. Fascism and national socialism are two different systems. Plus, the definition of fascism you're using was literally created a few years ago in a "1984"-like moment where we all pretended to forget what it meant in order that it could be redefined to frame Trump. It's a bad take.

[–]TheJoint 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Italian Fascism opposed liberalism, especially classical liberalism, which Fascist leaders denounced as "the debacle of individualism". Fascism was opposed to international socialism because of the latter's frequent opposition to nationalism From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Fascism, Basically the same thing as the Nazis which is socialism among party members and repression of everyone else aka Fake Socialism.

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Italian Fascism opposed liberalism, especially classical liberalism

So did the socialists of the day! What a weird coincidence!

And in a far more sinister coincidence, so do today's wokists. It's the same collectivism that killed millions. Old wine in new bottles.

[–]TheJoint 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Modern progressives are democratic socialists. They believe in individualism hence why they are called snowflakes.

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That's literally not what snowflakes means, but you knew that already. This argument is over.

[–]TheJoint 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Snowflake comes from Special Snowflake. If you think you are special then you are about individualism by default.

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

Uh, no. Snowflake means, and has always meant, a special, unique someone who melts easily when exposed to even a tiny bit of heat (criticism). It has zero to do with individualism, in fact it mostly applies to people who identify as collectivists.