Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "How to Identify Fascism" video.

  1.  @shrekt864  Fascism is a form of socialism. Hitler and Mussolini were socialists.
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  2.  @hayleylongster4698  It's a difference without a distinction. As the Birchers explained, decades ago, it doesn't matter if you own the factory or not, if you don't control the factory. The Krupps remained captains of industry (Krupp Steel) under the Nazis, but the Nazis told them what to make. And it's not as if the commissar for regional coal production or farm production didn't enjoy massive privileges compared to his comrades lower on the totem pole. Nazis weren't around long enough to see the kind of economies that evolve over the longer term. Soviet Russians were very inventive when it came to getting things done by going AROUND official channels. There's always a yin and a yang to these phenomena. Prosperity isolated Americans from each other. Tyranny built some tight-knit communities and a culture of people who kind of looked out for each other (just to survive). Some break it down this way: International socialism is class warfare. National socialism is race warfare. I prefer the old John Birch Society's economic definition: Socialism is ownership of the means of production by the state. Fascism is control of the means of production by the state. Functionally, they are indistinguishable, because control is the same. Another way of distinguishing the two: Socialism is international/globalist. Fascism is nationalist. I'm at the far end of the LINEAR spectrum from that. I'm just to the left of anarchy. Laws protecting persons and property and not much else. I despise regulations in most things, because it's so easy to subvert powerful enforcement agencies. I think better ways of doing things and higher standards should be a selling point, rather than a bureaucrat weighing in.
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  3. Yes. And when Elendil solemnly bowed his head, humbly acknowledging her wisdom, I literally got chills.
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  4.  @hayleylongster4698  Do you think there weren't any privileged industrialists in Soviet Russia? Some of the labels we use make distinctions without a difference. Like Democrats and Republicans arguing heatedly over the difference between $100 billion and $99 billion. "People will die if we don't get the full $100 billion!" "That's fiscally irresponsible! We shouldn't pay one cent more than $99 billion!" Meanwhile, I'm over in the corner asking "How about $0 billion?"
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  5. The leftists who accuse everyone of fascism are closer kin to fascists than anyone arguing for limited government.
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