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July 16, 2022

With the word ‘ fascist’ tossed around promiscuously, it’s extremely important to understand the term and where fascism belongs on the political spectrum.

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Anti-liberty leftists generally apply this pejorative to whatever the pro-freedom right is doing at the moment, whether it makes sense or not, as in these recent examples:

A ‘climate activist’ recently stated on MSNBC that the Supreme Court’s EPA ruling is ‘a judicial coup’ and ‘a clear descent into fascism’, never mind that the ruling was the exact opposite of that. Then there is the recent example of a woke Guardian US news reporter claiming that anyone who questions transgender ideology is a FASCIST.

As is the case with most of their weaponized words, their assertions are a kilometer wide and a tenth of a millimeter thick. It only works if you don’t look at it too closely and notice that it’s rife with contradictions, the prime indicator of a big lie. They have nothing beyond a few tired talking points, and as usual, they have to supplement their lack of facts with childish insults or mob techniques to shout down their opponents. Thus, you’ll find that their main tactic is to try to bluff their way through the subject with illogical intimidation.

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We will prove our case with a two-prong approach. Starting with a mountain of evidence with the listing of the common elements between socialism and fascism. Then we will point out the major disparities between fascism and the pro-freedom right side of the political spectrum. But first, it’s important to establish a baseline in what exactly we’re talking about with the political spectrum.

The National Center for Constitutional Studies (NCCS) has one of the best and most straightforward explanations of the political spectrum we’ve seen:

Government is defined in the dictionary as “a system of ruling or controlling,” and therefore the American Founders measured political systems in terms of the amount of coercive power or systematic control which a particular system of government exercises over its people. In other words, the yardstick is not political parties, but political power. Using this type of yardstick, the American Founders considered the two extremes to be anarchy on the one hand, and tyranny on the other. At the one extreme of anarchy, there is no government, no law, no systematic control, and no governmental power, while at the other extreme there is too much control, too much political oppression, and too much government. 

A right triangle is the best way to visualize the political spectrum, with the horizontal base leg indicating the scale between the two sides and the angular hypotenuse as an indication of governmental control or power. The vertical leg indicates maximum governmental control or power on one side. With the point of the triangle indicating minimum government or anarchy on the other.

The collectivist ideologies of communism and socialism are generally associated with unlimited or maximum governmental control or power, since this is required to administer a centrally planned and controlled economy.  As well as take ‘From each according to his abilities’.  These actions can only be undertaken with an authoritarian regime with close to 100% government control.  As in the totalitarian regimes of the USSR, Communist China, North Korea.  With this being indicated by the vertical leg of the triangle.

Since socialism is the standard leftist ideology in most countries of the world; communism is a more radical leftist ideology, we placed the triangle with the vertical leg to the left.