WTF Actually is Fascism?

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Fascism is a word as misunderstood as it is misused.
Now these hyperbolic politicians could ALMOST be forgiven for not really knowing what they are talking about… because NOBODY really knows what they are talking about…
George Orwell once wrote that “‘Fascism’’ has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies something not desirable.”
Ian Kershaw who has dedicated his life to being one of the world’s preeminent researchers on the social history of Germany in the 20th Century and even HE said that “defining Fascism is like trying to staple jelly to the wall”.
A hard and fast definition never existed in the first place, and even if it did, it has changed over time from an idealistic but ultimately flawed movement coming out of a continent going through some radical change, into what it is today which is just “A bad thing that we really shouldn’t do again”.
For most people that may be all they NEED to know, but it does raise some uncomfortable questions

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Kershaw (2016). To Hell and Back: Europe 1914–1949

https://orwell.ru/library/articles/As_I_Please/english/efasc

https://archive.org/details/intelligentperso0000grif

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2004-03-01/anatomy-fascism

https://www.britannica.com/topic/fascism/Opposition-to-parliamentary-democracy

https://web.archive.org/web/20210814020613/https://voxeu.org/article/revisiting-rise-italian-fascism

From: How History Works

Date: July 12, 2025

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As an actual fascist, MAGA is not even close to the real deal

Sounds like America is about to become facist. Real facist

2:06 I don’t see Mussolini’s symbol for fascism in that photo

This is such a strawman. ‘They call everyone fascist’ no just trump and most people who do have reasons.. maybe try asking people who call trump a fascist why they do so

Fascism: italians
Nazism: Germany

At ~2 minute mark, more factual information provided….

Benito Mussolini's symbol of fascism was the fasces, a bound bundle of wooden rods with an axe, which originated in ancient Rome as a symbol of magisterial power and authority.
The fasces was adopted by Mussolini’s National Fascist Party in 1919 and became the origin of the term "fascism".
While the fasces is not literally "hanging in front" of the U.S. Congress, it is present in the iconography of the U.S. House of Representatives, including behind the Speaker's podium, symbolizing strength through unity and governmental authority rather than fascism.
This usage predates Mussolini and reflects the United States' broader adoption of classical Roman symbols in its government imagery.