I responded with I dont read books of people would would kill me over stupid shit

Not you in particular, I wondered if anyone had, after people said neitzche inspired hitler

Nietzsche inspired a lot of people.

Mein Kampf was written by hitler right?

I hope nobody decides to base a fascist state on Harry Potter.

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@Dusty Morgan yes

also, people seem to misunderstand that fascism does not require ethnic division

I can't get a hold of those books, I want to read it to understand the thinking of these people.

But, apparently Starship Troopers was fascist.

So I can better combat their type of thinking.

people don't understand fascism at all, cuz its synonimous with Nazi-ism

nazism does, but Facism can survive without it

Those are all free. All of them are old enough that you can get free copies of them.

@Undead Mockingbird What? Heinlein was libertarian

Fascism isn't really wasn't started by Nazis.

Just Nazis just happen to be facsists.

oh which btw, happy belated Samhain everyone

Nazi's were socialists

Yes, but many interpreted his militarism as fascism.

Was it in Italia that it started?

Not saying they are right. They are very wrong.

I thought they were original socialist, they morphed into fascism.

But then again, people thought communism works - so, hey.

considering how they dealt with economic inequality, they weren't fascist at all

they were pure socialists

Nazi stands for national socialists, Nazism is a form fascism, with Mussolini being the one to come up with the term fascism, which comes from the italian word for a bundle of rods.

Mussolini didn't come up with fascism

I see.

it WAS the italians though who did

Fascism is socialist.

doesn't have to be actually

Well I do only use bundle of rods analog for corporation.

A form of socialism

But not for a society.

Yeah, it has roots as a counter-Enlightenment movement with the Jacobins in the 19th century, but I would argue Mussolini was the one who really characterized the ideology.

Is it the case that the ideology that we now call fascism was given that name after it was already in use? Or are the Italians the first to use it?

Fascism is just that you have a body of the state that can instantly gain absolute authority over life and death of everything in the state.

The moment a crisis is declared

i guess the accidental anal didnt happen