Comments by "" (@charliemoore2551) on "It's time to talk about fascism" video.

  1. Note that most of these "antis" seem to keep office hours. The fact that they make the same points using very similar wording is also a trolling red light. Their presence is a compliment to Richard Murphy. It tells us that Tufton Street (or similar) is concerned that he is making an impact.
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  2.  @suburbanyobbo9412  "Experts" decide who is Fascist? No, pal. Ye cannae hide behind that one!
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  3. To some extent, yes. Remember that the original Scottish nationalists came mostly from the Tory Party - which had far more Nazi sympathisers. In fact, it still does.
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  4. Yes. That's the anti-democracy case. Good luck with that one, Nazi.
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  5. There's nothing "authoritarian" about democracy. "Freedom" is the buzzword libertarians like to use to attempt to legitimise the dominance of the rich.
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  6. Because it embarrasses neoliberals. They can't accept that the people who obey their rules are Nazis because it delegitimises their rules. As, indeed, it should.
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  7. The funniest part of this is the garbage about Second World War fascists initiating the EU. It didn't appear until 1993! Trump is no more a "free marketeer" than any of the other neoliberals. What they really believe in is markets rigged in their favour. "Free markets" is a scam they sell to the gullible and stupid. You have to give them credit for their targeting skills.
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  8.  @suburbanyobbo9412  To begin with, I suggest that they are far from the most credible and trustworthy experts on fascism because they subscribe to liberalism. Fascism is a subset of liberalism. More importantly, I suggest that we make up our own minds about what fascism is by analysing what we see with our own eyes rather than defer to so-called experts.
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  9.  @suburbanyobbo9412  Which ones are socialist?
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  10.  @suburbanyobbo9412  I've read Mudde and he certainly isn't a Socialist. Renton's position is more nuanced than you suggest. He labels people like Le Pen and Trump as "New Authoritarians". The distinction between that and Fascism is cigarette paper thin. And anyway, in making that distinction he is an outlier on the left.
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  11.  @suburbanyobbo9412  He writes quite often in openDemocracy and in the Guardian. He is not a Socialist. He's more aligned with left wing Democrats in the US or with the UK Labour Party as purged of Socialists by Starmer.
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  12.  @suburbanyobbo9412  As I said, he writes often in the Guardian and in openDemocracy where he espouses views which are similar to those of Bernie Sanders or the UK Labour Party. What on Earth makes you think he's a Socialist?
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  13.  @suburbanyobbo9412  If they're not socialists they're liberals
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  14. There's nothing more ridiculous than accepting a Fascist's definition of Fascism. Both Italian Fascism and its German sibling were grifts - just as MAGA is. Both claimed to be anti-capitalist but, in fact, capitalists prospered greatly under both regimes and workers were suppressed on their behalf. This will, of course, be the case if Trump (or an equally corrupt successor) is returned to power.
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