Fascism is not conservative, in either the classical liberal or legitimist sense. It is statist, collectivist, obsessed with youth, disdainful of tradition, contemptuous of law & institutions, & brooks no competition for man's loyalty to the State. It is, however, "right-wing."https://twitter.com/JonahDispatch/status/1112155644839243776 …
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4. The more crucial point is that conservatism's view of individuals, communities, state power, laws, traditions, & institutions places it on one side of a divide w/progressivism, socialism, fascism & Communism on the other.
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5. Bingo. No amount of "actually, the Nazis were not my kind of socialist" can translate into "the Nazis were really into small government." https://twitter.com/_Drew_McCoy_/status/1112729581222531072 …
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6. Fascism in any of its forms is both collectivist & corporatist: like socialism & progressivism, it sees business & economic activity as something to be controlled top-down by the state & directed to the ends the state sees as good.
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7. True, Nazi Germany gave more leeway to big business that produced private profit than did the USSR. This is also why, unlike Stalin, it was able to arm its own military & feed its own people w/o begging off its allies. Both systems, however, rested on forced labor & worse.
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8. Which brings us to the deeper problem of progressives arguing that fascists were not really socialists: the Communists indisputably were, they caused even more death & misery over more space & time, & some of their regimes are still in business. Collectivism is ghastly.
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