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@tristanbard0516 Fascism at its core is leftist. The founder of fascism condemned American democracy as “selfish” because it promoted individualism.

@tristanbard0516 The ideological father of fascism was Giovanni Gentile, one of the most influential philosophers of his era. Though he was “the Karl Marx of fascism,” his name has effectively been buried.

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@tristanbard0516 Fascists are socialists with a national identity. In fact, “Nazi” stands for “national socialist.”

But didn’t communists and fascists oppose each other? They did, but this was an internal feud, like hostilities between Sunnis and Shiite Muslims.

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@tristanbard0516 Fascism requires submission to the state, in economics and everything else. In other words, fascism is anti-conservative and anti-American.

Benito Mussolini, the fascist dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943, turned socialist Giovanni Gentile’s fascist philosophy into action.

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@tristanbard0516 In his Dottrina del Fascismo, one of the doctrinal statements of early fascism, Mussolini wrote, “all remains within the state and nothing outside the State.”

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@tristanbard0516 Fascism implies complete control over all aspects of life: the courts, the press, the church. In other words, fascism is anti-conservative and anti-American.

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@tristanbard0516 Recent attempts to silence free speech and control thought on college campuses, an echo of fascism, have been perpetrated by the left, not the right.

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@tristanbard0516 The philosophy of the founder of fascism closely parallels that of the modern left. 

Conservatism wants small government so that individual liberty can flourish.

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@tristanbard0516 In America, the left has vastly expanded state control over the private sector, from healthcare to banking, from education to energy. This state-directed capitalism is precisely what German and Italian fascists implemented in the 1930s.

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@tristanbard0516 Leftists have largely buried the name of fascism’s founder, Gentile, because to acknowledge him is to acknowledge that fascism in theory and practice bears a deep kinship to the ideology and tactics of the left.

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@tristanbard0516 Fascism is not a conservative capitalist movement but a progressive socialist one.

@tristanbard0516 For Giovanni Gentile, the father of fascism, all private action should be oriented to serve society. Gentile called the 20th century the "'collective' century, and therefore the century of the State."

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@tristanbard0516 Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini wrote, “All is in the state and nothing human exists or has value outside the state.”

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@tristanbard0516 Fascism is not a conservative capitalist movement but a progressive socialist one. Fascism implies complete control over all aspects of life: the courts, the press, the church. In other words, fascism is anti-conservative and anti-American.

lifezette.com/2017/08/dinesh…

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