[governance] What Replaces [Insert Favorite Fascist State Here] ???

[Jim Fleming]

What Replaces [Insert Favorite Fascist State Here] ???

What Replaces THE Big Lie Society ?

Simple Answer: Nothing, it will never go away, you have to route around it

For a more complete answer, you may first want to study past history and how
people in a Fascist State think.

There are some key four-letter words you could insert in the text below that
describes how much of cyberspace is governed.

I Am Not Alone
It Seeks Overall Control

Modern History Sourcebook:
Benito Mussolini:
What is Fascism, 1932

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Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) over the course of his lifetime went from
Socialism - he was editor of Avanti, a socialist newspaper - to the
leadership of a new political movement called "fascism" [after "fasces", the
symbol of bound sticks used a totem of power in ancient Rome].

Mussolini came to power after the "March on Rome" in 1922, and was appointed
Prime Minister by King Victor Emmanuel.

In 1932 Mussolini wrote (with the help of Giovanni Gentile) and entry for
the Italian Encyclopedia on the definition of fascism.


Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development
of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment,
believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. It
thus repudiates the doctrine of Pacifism -- born of a renunciation of the
struggle and an act of cowardice in the face of sacrifice. War alone brings
up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility
upon the peoples who have courage to meet it. All other trials are
substitutes, which never really put men into the position where they have to
make the great decision -- the alternative of life or death....

...The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising
suicide: he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest, but
above all for others -- those who are at hand and those who are far distant,
contemporaries, and those who will come after...

...Fascism [is] the complete opposite of.Marxian Socialism, the materialist
conception of history of human civilization can be explained simply through
the conflict of interests among the various social groups and by the change
and development in the means and instruments of production.... Fascism, now
and always, believes in holiness and in heroism; that is to say, in actions
influenced by no economic motive, direct or indirect. And if the economic
conception of history be denied, according to which theory men are no more
than puppets, carried to and fro by the waves of chance, while the real
directing forces are quite out of their control, it follows that the
existence of an unchangeable and unchanging class-war is also denied - the
natural progeny of the economic conception of history. And above all Fascism
denies that class-war can be the preponderant force in the transformation of
society....

After Socialism, Fascism combats the whole complex system of democratic
ideology, and repudiates it, whether in its theoretical premises or in its
practical application. Fascism denies that the majority, by the simple fact
that it is a majority, can direct human society; it denies that numbers
alone can govern by means of a periodical consultation, and it affirms the
immutable, beneficial, and fruitful inequality of mankind, which can never
be permanently leveled through the mere operation of a mechanical process
such as universal suffrage....

...Fascism denies, in democracy, the absur[d] conventional untruth of
political equality dressed out in the garb of collective irresponsibility,
and the myth of "happiness" and indefinite progress....

...iven that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of
Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the
twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and
Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather
be expected that this will be a century of authority...a century of Fascism.
For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be
expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century
of the State....

The foundation of Fascism is the conception of the State, its character, its
duty, and its aim. Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in
comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be
conceived of in their relation to the State. The conception of the Liberal
State is not that of a directing force, guiding the play and development,
both material and spiritual, of a collective body, but merely a force
limited to the function of recording results: on the other hand, the Fascist
State is itself conscious and has itself a will and a personality -- thus it
may be called the "ethic" State....

...The Fascist State organizes the nation, but leaves a sufficient margin of
liberty to the individual; the latter is deprived of all useless and
possibly harmful freedom, but retains what is essential; the deciding power
in this question cannot be the individual, but the State alone....

...For Fascism, the growth of empire, that is to say the expansion of the
nation, is an essential manifestation of vitality, and its opposite a sign
of decadence. Peoples which are rising, or rising again after a period of
decadence, are always imperialist; and renunciation is a sign of decay and
of death. Fascism is the doctrine best adapted to represent the tendencies
and the aspirations of a people, like the people of Italy, who are rising
again after many centuries of abasement and foreign servitude. But empire
demands discipline, the coordination of all forces and a deeply felt sense
of duty and sacrifice: this fact explains many aspects of the practical
working of the regime, the character of many forces in the State, and the
necessarily severe measures which must be taken against those who would
oppose this spontaneous and inevitable movement of Italy in the twentieth
century, and would oppose it by recalling the outworn ideology of the
nineteenth century - repudiated wheresoever there has been the courage to
undertake great experiments of social and political transformation; for
never before has the nation stood more in need of authority, of direction
and order. If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a
thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our
time. For if a doctrine must be a living thing, this is proved by the fact
that Fascism has created a living faith; and that this faith is very
powerful in the minds of men is demonstrated by those who have suffered and
died for it.


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