Comments by "earthstick" (@earthstick) on "FASCISM DEFINED | The Difference between Fascism and National Socialism" video.

IMO the division between people is between individualists and collectivists and it has its roots in hunter gathers. Men cannot give birth or rear an infant. Only women can do this. Therefore men have naturally specialised to hunt while women specialise to look after those too young, too old or too weak. Men go out an hunt. While doing so they live mostly by their own rules, some cooperation is required to take down large prey but they are more individualist. Those at a settlement rely on the hunters for food. Once the food is brought back it is divided up, the settlement operates as a collective and in order to maintain that collective there must be authority to enforce the division of food. Furthermore the people in the settlement know they must be given food because otherwise the settlement will fail so they have an intrinsic sense of entitlement. Fascism, socialism and communism are all collectivist.
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Fascism is named after the Roman fascio littorio - a bundle of stick bound together as a rod. Each stick alone is weak but when bound together they are strong enough to beat people with. Fascism is a collectivist strategy. All collectives require authority to form and maintain them. This is why fascism in application is almost indistinguishable from communism.
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@ninjasonicteenagewarhead4284 Collectives exist to overcome adversities that are greater than the individual can overcome alone. Working together as you put it, working together to overcome the challenge of surviving in the natural world that will otherwise kill us. There is no collective that is not through coercion, if nothing else, the natural world coerces us. But when the adversity is not great enough people do not need to band together and will naturally seek their independent ways. If the members of the collective perceive the adversity is too great for the collective to overcome they will also seek their independent ways. If there is a famine and you are a farmer in a collective you may very well decide to feed yourself and your family first, thus putting your own individual needs above those of the collective. So it is in times of crisis that authority is required to force the collective to remain together. So you see all collectives require authority and authority operates by force and coercion. Covid is a perfect example of this. Covid is an adversary and people are expected to give up their individual desires for the good of the group by staying at home, wearing masks, accepting a vaccine. All these things have been imposed by authority who are using coercion, like fining people, threatening them with further lose of liberties or simply violently assaulting people. You can see easily if an authority wants to remove individual liberties all that is required is a crisis.
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