What is Fascism?
Fascism is corporatism plus militarism. Under the corporatist system society's competing interest groups would be organized into legal associations, or corporations, which have rights under law similar to those of an individual. Legislative power is granted to those corporations representing economic, industrial and professional groups. Both labor and management are joined by a representative of the government who serves as manager between the two. Together, the three sides work out issues of wages, prices, production quotas, quality, distribution, labor standards, etc. and settle any disputes that inevitably emerge between such contending sides. At work in this idea is the Hegelian law of “negation of the negation” wherein the worst elements of each of the competing sides cancel each other another out in the formation of the ultimate result. It is the governmental equivalent of the lion laying down with the lamb.
Through the dynamic syntheis of opposites, fascism creates a new, third way between the constant destabilizing revolution of capitalism and the tyranny of socialism. It seeks the regeneration of the decadent nation through the unity that comes via mass allegiance. Mass allegiance being the mobalizing of both the elites and the people into a single force. It stands for values and policies directly opposed to the old order's rotten and failed philosophy. While dynamic, fascism also recognizes and incorporates the traditional as the foundation of the society thereby blending dynamism with tradition. It stands for patriotism against communism; order and discipline against chaos and anarchy; social justice against exploitation; nationalism against internationalism; national unity against class, race and ethnic conflict; individual effort and creative toil against high finance. Central to this philosophy is the need for a higher form of civilisation, built by a new type of man, the type of man that emerges from fascism.
"Fascism was born to inspire a faith not of the Right (which at bottom aspires to conserve everything, even injustice) or of the Left (which at bottom aspires to destroy everything, even goodness), but a collective, integral, national faith."
-- Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera
Fascism was forged in war and emerged in a ravaged Europe teetering on the brink of all-out collapse and threatened by Bolshevik revolution. The original fascists fought against the pervasive atmosphere of despair, fear and looming tyranny through a creative counter-attack that included persuasion and violence. Violence because the forces that threatened Western civilization used violence. They railed against the political and social changes brought about by World War I and organized into military-style organizations of highly disciplined men that took on the Bolsheviks and beat them back. Militarism can transform man from the modern, capitalist-molded bourgeois simp into the kind of creative warrior the original fascists were. Like them, this new creative warrior should be the kind of man forged in conflict and sacrifice. A man who sees that violence can be a creative force, a man who is willing to risk all and sacrifice all for the cause. This new fascist man must be worthy of positions of power and prestige, unlike the craven, lying phonys we find in democratic countries today, the spineless anti-patriots who fill our univerities then climb the ladder through guile, conceit and lies.
The best of militarism displays the qualities of loyalty, courage and professional devotion to the nation. The military stands guard on the wall in the dark hours so the people can sleep soundly in the knowledge that they are protected. Only this kind of man is worthy of a position of power and prestige, unlike the crafty and conniving liberal parliamentary types who eke out ignoble careers foraging through human waste and seeking to appeal to the worst instincts of men by offering bribes for ballots.
Militarism ceaselessly wages war both against flesh and blood and a spiritual army of evil. An individual, like a nation, cannot resist a foe in the flesh alone and those who go into combat against both are truly fearless and noble. Their souls are protected by an armor of faith just as his body is protected by armor of steel. Thus they fear neither neither demons nor men. Nor do they fear death. Why should they fear to live or fear to die when to live is to live for Christ, and to die is gain? Gladly and faithfully he stands for Christ, but he would prefer to be dissolved and to be with Christ, by far the better thing. The fascist knows that death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
"We cannot ... be content to rot by inches in ignoble ease within our borders, taking no interest in what goes on beyond them, sunk in a scrambling commercialism; heedless of the higher life, the life of aspiration, of toil and risk, busying ourselves only with the wants of our bodies for the day, until suddenly we should find, beyond a shadow of question ... that in this world the nation that has trained itself to a career of unwarlike and isolated ease is bound, in the end, to go down before other nations which have not lost the manly and adventurous qualities."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Fascism is corporatism plus militarism. Under the corporatist system society's competing interest groups would be organized into legal associations, or corporations, which have rights under law similar to those of an individual. Legislative power is granted to those corporations representing economic, industrial and professional groups. Both labor and management are joined by a representative of the government who serves as manager between the two. Together, the three sides work out issues of wages, prices, production quotas, quality, distribution, labor standards, etc. and settle any disputes that inevitably emerge between such contending sides. At work in this idea is the Hegelian law of “negation of the negation” wherein the worst elements of each of the competing sides cancel each other another out in the formation of the ultimate result. It is the governmental equivalent of the lion laying down with the lamb.
Through the dynamic syntheis of opposites, fascism creates a new, third way between the constant destabilizing revolution of capitalism and the tyranny of socialism. It seeks the regeneration of the decadent nation through the unity that comes via mass allegiance. Mass allegiance being the mobalizing of both the elites and the people into a single force. It stands for values and policies directly opposed to the old order's rotten and failed philosophy. While dynamic, fascism also recognizes and incorporates the traditional as the foundation of the society thereby blending dynamism with tradition. It stands for patriotism against communism; order and discipline against chaos and anarchy; social justice against exploitation; nationalism against internationalism; national unity against class, race and ethnic conflict; individual effort and creative toil against high finance. Central to this philosophy is the need for a higher form of civilisation, built by a new type of man, the type of man that emerges from fascism.
"Fascism was born to inspire a faith not of the Right (which at bottom aspires to conserve everything, even injustice) or of the Left (which at bottom aspires to destroy everything, even goodness), but a collective, integral, national faith."
-- Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera
Fascism was forged in war and emerged in a ravaged Europe teetering on the brink of all-out collapse and threatened by Bolshevik revolution. The original fascists fought against the pervasive atmosphere of despair, fear and looming tyranny through a creative counter-attack that included persuasion and violence. Violence because the forces that threatened Western civilization used violence. They railed against the political and social changes brought about by World War I and organized into military-style organizations of highly disciplined men that took on the Bolsheviks and beat them back. Militarism can transform man from the modern, capitalist-molded bourgeois simp into the kind of creative warrior the original fascists were. Like them, this new creative warrior should be the kind of man forged in conflict and sacrifice. A man who sees that violence can be a creative force, a man who is willing to risk all and sacrifice all for the cause. This new fascist man must be worthy of positions of power and prestige, unlike the craven, lying phonys we find in democratic countries today, the spineless anti-patriots who fill our univerities then climb the ladder through guile, conceit and lies.
The best of militarism displays the qualities of loyalty, courage and professional devotion to the nation. The military stands guard on the wall in the dark hours so the people can sleep soundly in the knowledge that they are protected. Only this kind of man is worthy of a position of power and prestige, unlike the crafty and conniving liberal parliamentary types who eke out ignoble careers foraging through human waste and seeking to appeal to the worst instincts of men by offering bribes for ballots.
Militarism ceaselessly wages war both against flesh and blood and a spiritual army of evil. An individual, like a nation, cannot resist a foe in the flesh alone and those who go into combat against both are truly fearless and noble. Their souls are protected by an armor of faith just as his body is protected by armor of steel. Thus they fear neither neither demons nor men. Nor do they fear death. Why should they fear to live or fear to die when to live is to live for Christ, and to die is gain? Gladly and faithfully he stands for Christ, but he would prefer to be dissolved and to be with Christ, by far the better thing. The fascist knows that death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
"We cannot ... be content to rot by inches in ignoble ease within our borders, taking no interest in what goes on beyond them, sunk in a scrambling commercialism; heedless of the higher life, the life of aspiration, of toil and risk, busying ourselves only with the wants of our bodies for the day, until suddenly we should find, beyond a shadow of question ... that in this world the nation that has trained itself to a career of unwarlike and isolated ease is bound, in the end, to go down before other nations which have not lost the manly and adventurous qualities."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
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