Fourteen Defining Characteristics Of Fascism

[unmaker]

Dr. Lawrence Britt, a political scientist, wrote an article about fascism which appeared in Free Inquiry magazine - a journal of humanist thought. Dr. Britt studied the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile). He found the regimes all had 14 things in common, and he calls

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[vengeant]

All of these are wrong, because freedom is slavery, war is peace, and Big Brother is watching us.

[daerlyn]

Iiiiiiiiiiinteresting. Certainly sounds like the US government is aiming high, at least the parts that get rabidly ranted about on the internet (I'm not trying to minimise the bad stuff, but I realise that as someone who lives in another country and gets most of my news from other bloggers, my perspective is necessarily skewed).

[unmaker]

Skewed? Perhaps. Far from the truth? Probably not. This place is pretty bad and getting worse. Ever since Bush was "elected" a bad harmony has sounded throughout the nation.