Fourteen Characteristics of Fascism
Reading these Fourteen Characteristics of Fascism by Dr. Lawrence Britt is difficult given the current political climate in the U.S. and our relationship with the rest of the world. It all sounds a little too familiar. Here are three characteristics:
- 4. Supremacy of the Military - Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
5. Rampant Sexism - The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution.
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined - Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government’s policies or actions.
Fascism doesn’t happen overnight. It is a slow, insidious process that happens over years, if not generations.
He addresses the suppression of labor unions:
10. Labor Power is Suppressed - Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.
Communism and socialism are built on the power of labor unions. Those systems are just as destructive to human rights and liberty as fascism. While labor unions may be a threat to a fascist government, it is only because ultimately they want the same thing and are competing in their efforts to assault individual liberty.
Facism, communism, socialism and the power of labor unions are all built on collectivism, the premise that individuals have less value than the collective.
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November 23rd, 2004 at 3:59 pm
I posted these quotes among others just the other day and your post reminds me of them again.
“Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.” — Thomas Jefferson, February 10, 1814
“To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.” –Thomas Jefferson to Hugh White, 1801. ME 10:258
“I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved — the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!” — John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson
“The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.” — Ben Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1758
“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” — Treaty of Tripoli, 1796