Fascism or Nazi has become one of those words that means evil, so people use that to attack and discredit people they disagree with. Fascism is actually a very specific ideology, economic theory, political platform, and worldview that grew up in the early twentieth century, but people don't know what it is. They know what communism is, but fascism is this sort of blank hole in which people will project everything they hate and fear.
Many people say fascism is extreme conservativism, but it isn't. Conservatives in America believe in limited government. Fascism believes in unlimited government. Conservatives believe in things like individual liberty, whereas fascists believe in the communal unity of people in a particular group. Conservatives believe in free market economics. Fascists believe in national socialism, which is a government-directed economy. Conservatives tend to believe in objective morality. Fascists reject this and favor a morality that we can construct according to our power and interests. Conservatives want to conserve the past and conserve our civilization. Fascists wish to overthrow it and create something completely different.
- Dr. Gene Edward Veith
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