Thread by @Reconquestador

Nazism and Fascism are Far-Right. But that doesn't make everything that's “Far-Right” into #Nazism or Fascism. Nazism is an ideology driven by a racialist form of Volkisch populism and autocratic “the state = god” collectivism. #Fascism is a form of Nationalistic Corporatism.

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Nazism as an ideology is closest to the form of State worshipping Totalitarianism that exists in China. With their main differences being their focuses (Nazism on a racialist framework, Chinese Totalitarianism on a sociopolitical one).

Both see the state as a godlike entity. And society as subservient to it. Individuals are therefore seen as cogs in a machine. Issues that don't immediately fall under the umbrella of their core frameworks are viewed through a pragmatic and machiavellian lens.

Which is why the Nazis and CCP used/use both Right-wing and Leftwing Social/Economic policies for their own perceived gain. Wether it be privatisation or increased social benefits, or natalism & abortion bans or eugenics, all were used to further their visions.

Btw. Eugenics back then, along with social engineering, was seen as a Left-wing & Progressive stance. Which might seem antithetical to today's humanistic Leftwing. But was par for the course for the utilitarian Left of old.

- Which is why Margret Sanger (Planned Parenthood's founder) got along well with racialists.

The old establishmentarian Far-Right was religious and aristocratic- As opposed to the volkisch secular messianic autocratic populism of Nazism, and partially of Fascism and the CCP variant of Chinese Totalitarianism

- Which is why the establishment Far-Right often opposed social engineering on religious humanist grounds. Though the death of Christian Traditionalism post WW1 weakened this opposition. And allowed for the rise of Fascism and Nazism.

Nazism and Fascism both used fears of the revolutionary socialists and traditionalist undertones to subdue and absorb the establishment Far-Right wings in their respective countries. But they fundamentally speaking didn't give a crap about National Conservative issues.

Fascism as an ideology is focused on a socioeconomic construction of society & a nationalistic vision. Italian Fascism's connections to French National Syndicalism, Roman and Catholic elements & Italian historical and cultural factors, makes it fundamentally different to Nazism.

- Through Fascism's romanticism of Roman Cultural Nationalist Imperialism and critical quasi support for Catholic Traditionalist opposition to some forms of eugenics, among other things, Fascism in its original form is largely opposed to Nazi racialism.

Modern Fascism and Nazism these days have been merged with more National Conservative elements. Due to oversimplification of sociopolitics in cultural works, and a changing ideological landscape.

Chinese Totalitarianism is based upon philosophical and cultural grounds which see individuals as practically worthless, and the state as an exalted deity.

I refer to this ideology as “Chinese Totalitarianism” because of this, and due to its subsequent fact that a lot of Chinese regimes adhere to its tenets. With (as an example), the Kuomintang and modern CCP being both quite similar in practical structure.