Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "Black privilege" video.

  1. Whoopi said that because she believes in fascism, and its parent, socialism. Proto-fascism was a product of socialism, where Mussolini was involved with those at the Free State of Fiume and D'Annunzio. Mussolini's history is very telling, and something very similar occurred in Germany as well, leading to their own brand of fascism. "Mussolini was originally a socialist politician and a journalist at the Avanti! newspaper. In 1912, he became a member of the National Directorate of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), but he was expelled from the PSI for advocating military intervention in World War I, in opposition to the party's stance on neutrality." "Mussolini thought of himself as an intellectual and was considered to be well-read. He read avidly; his favorites in European philosophy included Sorel, the Italian Futurist, Marinetti, French Socialist, Hervé, Italian anarchist, Malatesta, and German philosophers Engels and Marx, the founders of Marxism. Mussolini had taught himself French and German and translated excerpts from Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Kant." "In 1913, he published Giovanni Hus, il veridico (Jan Hus, true prophet), an historical and political biography about the life and mission of the Czech ecclesiastic reformer Jan Hus and his militant followers, the Hussites. During this socialist period of his life, Mussolini sometimes used the pen name "Vero Eretico" ("sincere heretic")." D'Annunzio: "In 1881 D'Annunzio entered the University of Rome La Sapienza, where he became a member of various literary groups, including Cronaca Bizantina, and wrote articles and criticism for local newspapers. In those university years, he started to promote Italian irredentism." "D'Annunzio was associated with the Decadent movement in his literary works, which interplayed closely with French Symbolism and British Aestheticism. Such works represented a turn against the naturalism of the preceding romantics and were both sensuous and mystical. He came under the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche who would find outlets in his literary and later political contributions." "After the Fiume episode, D'Annunzio retired to his home on Lake Garda and spent his latter years writing and campaigning. Although D'Annunzio had a strong influence on the ideology of Mussolini, he never became directly involved in fascist government politics in Italy. In 1922, shortly before the march on Rome, he was pushed out of a window by an unknown assailant, or perhaps simply slipped and fell out himself while intoxicated. He survived but was badly injured, and recovered only after Mussolini had been appointed Prime Minister."
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  2.  @occidentadvocate.9759  Nationalism and "socialist democracy" were really the only big differences between Fascism and Socialism. The Fascists began supporting the nation-state, which is what caused the rift between the two political ideologies. The rest, such as nationalizing industry, a hatred of the middle-class, central planning, and a large centralized authoritarian government were close to the same between the two. "Liberal opponents of both fascism and the Bolsheviks argue that there are various similarities between the two, including that they believed in the necessity of a vanguard leadership, had disdain for bourgeois values, and it is argued had totalitarian ambitions. In practice, both have commonly emphasized revolutionary action, proletarian nation theories, one-party states, and party-armies; however, both draw clear distinctions from each other both in aims and tactics, with the Bolsheviks emphasizing the need for an organized participatory democracy (Soviet democracy) and an egalitarian, internationalist vision for society based on proletarian internationalism, while fascists emphasized hyper-nationalism and open hostility towards democracy, envisioning a hierarchical social structure as essential to their aims. With the antagonism between anti-interventionist Marxists and pro-interventionist Fascists complete by the end of the war, the two sides became irreconcilable. The Fascists presented themselves as anti-communists and as especially opposed to the Marxists." Trotsky despised Stalin, calling him a nationalist because he wasn't trying to spread socialism internationally at that time. Trotsky didn't live to see Stalin and the takeover of Eastern Europe at the end of WWII, as Stalin had him topped. The sad thing is, we're still fighting this cancer today from both sides.
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