Thought For the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
“By ‘Fascism’ they mean, roughly speaking, something cruel, unscrupulous, arrogant, obscurantist, anti-liberal and anti-working-class. Except for the relatively small number of Fascist sympathizers, almost any English person would accept ‘bully’ as a synonym for ‘Fascist’. That is about as near to a definition as this much-abused word has come.
But Fascism is also a political and economic system. Why, then, cannot we have a clear and generally accepted definition of it? Alas! we shall not get one — not yet, anyway. To say why would take too long, but basically it is because it is impossible to define Fascism satisfactorily without making admissions which neither the Fascists themselves, nor the Conservatives, nor Socialists of any colour, are willing to make. All one can do for the moment is to use the word with a certain amount of circumspection and not, as is usually done, degrade it to the level of a swearword.”
–George Orwell
File under, “The Left Wants to Kill You.”
Prager U has a great video about Fascism.
FWIW, the admirers of Communism in the West, who were on board with National Socialism until the invasion of the USSR by Hitler, had to disassociate National Socialism and Fascism from their pet ideology. These schmucks decided that, from then on, academia would define Fascism and National Socialism as “right wing” even though they have far more in common with Communism.
Thus, when Poland celebrated its 100th anniversary of Independence, Sally Kohn, noted left wink crank, made an insult to which the response was “you are a monumental idiot”.
[…] from The American Catholic: Ed Feser on Fascism – Donald R. McClarey, […]
Note: It is the same with the word “racist”. Pejoratives seem to have lost their true meanings in today’s world. Samuel Johnson would be appalled.
The most important fascist in history was Benito Mussolini. According to him fascism meant “everything inside the government, nothing outside the government, nothing against the government”.
Sounds more like donkeys than elephants to me.
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Some people insist that all republicans are nazis. If you say that Rand Paul is a nazi, then in your mouth the word “nazi” just means “somebody I don’t like” & has nothing to do with the National Socialist German Workers Party