Navarro
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Can the left of today even define what 'fascism' is? Because as far as I can tell, whenever they're accusing anyone of being 'fash' they certainly don't mean the latter subscribe to a certain Italian totalitarian ideology with a protectionist & autarkic economic bent and an irredentist, warmongering foreign policy (along with, in general, a reverence for merciless violence which the present-day left also definitely exhibits).
Blame Georges Sorel. He completed Rousseau's political project of essentially inventing modern-day totalitarianism.
Well yes, that was what I was getting at. I'm sure calling oneself an 'antifascist' made sense if you were a militiaman of the Weimar-period Iron Front (which incidentally fought the KPD's street thugs on top of the brownshirts in their attempt to defend democracy, so it's hilarious that their Three Arrows symbol has been appropriated by the ideological descendants of the same people they thrashed on the regular).
It's forgotten these days that fascism is a branch of leftist-socialist ideology. The KPD not only had significant ideological crossover with the NSDAP and collaborated in bringing down the Weimar government, socialist/progressive writers and newspapers wrote the same puff pieces about Mussolini and Hitler that they did about Stalin. It was only after the war and the left couldn't cover up the crimes of fascism that they adopted a shift in rhetorical focus to argue that it had always been a right-wing ideology.
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