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3. Dictatorship

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7. The Doctrine of Fascism

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10. Political violence & public order: A study of British fascism

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14. Neonazis & Euromaidan: From democracy to dictatorship

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16. The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left

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u/Illumagus · 1 pointr/INTP

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>acting like you know what you're talking about and actually knowing what you're talking about are different things

Tell me about it -- Sophist.

I made a clear case why countries are different i.e. they fit into categories, and why they do so. You haven't presented any kind of coherent logical argument, but shouted expletives and made vague insinuations.

>Not privileged per se
>
>Thank you for admitting you're wrong

I've done no such thing. More sophistry. I never even mentioned privilege, at least not in the context you are trying to refer to. (Strawman attack.) At no point do you actually care about arriving at the truth, you are simply trying to engage in trolling and one-upmanship. What I actually said was: "benefit everyone rather than just a few privileged elites" indicating the OWO i.e. financial elite. You didn't even understand the initial concept.

>just throw every idea together and make dubious link

Not what narrow-minded Mandarins like to do, I know.

>We like to have smart people here

Well that excludes you by default then.

>Me criticizing your BS is basically public service

In your dreams, what you're actually doing is self-gratifying trolling, and reinforcing your own naive empiricism ("show me the sensory evidence") because you find it fun to troll and nitpick. You are psychopathic at least.

>=> Thinks he can just ignore language

The semantic language used isn't "strongly correlated" to the psychology of a society. Of course if you could actually think, you'd realize that.

>guess that was probably right

You whine about no evidence, and then you engage in naive guesswork, just like all irrational empiricists.

>strongest counter argument is from one line

That was more or less a trival point orthogonal to the main point -- you haven't even addressed the core thesis: you haven't shown that different societies have the same psychology everywhere, as opposed to there being key differences, as already laid out.

>change my point that you don't know shit about Europe

You haven't made any valid points, just vague assertions about how I'm allegedly wrong. Well done? Whatever makes you happy.

>What is the House of Lords?

Part of the Old World Order -- financial elite.

Since we're apparently now asking random questions: what is ontological mathematics?

>Oh my god, shut the fuck up

This is why this subreddit needs moderation, to get rid of vile, carping trolls such as yourself. Trolls like to identify as INTP, but they are predominantly an ESTP phenomenon. Trolls lie to themselves about their own type.

>the average dude certainly has power

Not in any meaningful sense, especially when compared to the power of the financial elite.

>choose to "rule from the shadow" or whatever, it's just that they couldn't do it openly anymore

I don't engage in irrational conspiracy theories, you're projecting. Nobody "rules from the shadows", the financial elite rule openly. False consciousness isn't a "conspiracy theory", it's a psychological concept, you dunce. Look it up. False consciousness means that "the average dude" supports the OWO, even against his own best interests -- he has bought into the values of the elite class.

https://www.amazon.com/OWO-Anti-Elite-Book-Adam-Weishaupt-ebook/dp/B005VU2UMA

>restrained markets ? Guess you like China

Strawman. China has its own problems. I advocate meritocracy, with 100% inheritance tax and a rational, intelligent government (rule by philosophers and mathematicians, psychologists and scientific experts).

https://www.amazon.com/Case-Meritocracy-Political-Book-ebook/dp/B018W0ULVM

>Freedom of speech (restricted in Germany)

Well that was random -- and wrong. You try to bring up barely relevant details but can't see the larger picture.

"The Federal Republic of Germany guarantees freedom of speech, expression, and opinion to its citizens as per Article 5 of the constitution."

>taxes (heavy in scandinavia)

"Not paying taxes" is not a metric of freedom. If that were the case, you would be "free" in a jungle, with no human contact (that is of course the defining credo of all irrational libertarians). Freedom is not 'negative liberty' i.e. to be left alone to rot, to shop, etc. but the freedom for -- to choose the system of your society (i.e. to have a meritocracy rather than predatory capitalism) and to take part in transformative, communal projects (landing men on the moon for the first time was an example of a 'positive liberty' project). Less jungle, more Star Trek / Venus Project.

No wonder you felt so compelled to start trolling: I was contradicting your irrational libertarian biases.

>Here, I already won

Only inside your own psychopathic, delusional head. You've won nothing because you've made no valid points.

>than living under communist rule

Nobody was advocating communism. (Although your terror of it again, shows irrational right-wing 'negative liberty' and anti - intelligent design of society, as envisioned in Star Trek or the Venus Project).

Communism is equal outcomes, whereas meritocracy promotes equality of opportunity only (a fair start) and where you go from there is up to you -- it is an inequal outcomes system.

>constituions

I did reference the constitution above, to satisfy your fixation on minor details. Also, learn to spell if you're going to be a virulent troll. (Maybe if you spent less time trolling, you would be able to get it right!)

>Looks like you have bought into the false consciousness of the financial elite
>
>What are you even talking about ?

Of course a concept such as false consciousness would go right over your head. Whereas you are a Mandarin, empiricist and Sophist. I am a Sage/Gadfly, rationalist and ontological mathematician. You insist on bogging every sentence down on an online forum with "show me the sensory evidence" and "who wrote that? are they authorised, do they have 'status'?" -- as if that mattered.

If you want to waste everyone's time, and act in a manner not consistent with an NT, by all means, keep trolling.

If you want to learn and become rational, read The God Series by Mike Hockney.

https://www.amazon.com/Mike-Hockney/e/B004KHR7DC

u/Sznajberg · 6 pointsr/politics

You know a latin word doesn't mean a political structure. Classical liberalism developed in the early 19th century, about 1800 years after the Romans.

And knowing what freedom means is one thing, but putting it into practice it certainly doesn't mean "no external regulations on any business between consenting people." Between you and I if I make a widget and you like widget and want to buy it-- what are you going to buy it with? Money? did we make the money? Agree on its value? or is that an external regulation? What if you're making a product next to my kids daycare, and it starts poisoning my kid and all my neighbours kids? Are we free to not be poisoned? Or does your freedom over-ride my kids? You concent to sell your product to another concenting people, but if you poison my land and water and life in the process of your freedom we have two choices; either we regulate, or we come after you with pitchforks.

>Fascist commonly means authoritarian

Utter BS, broflake. Fascist has a definition. Especcially an economic definition. Sure they end up authoritarian and dictatorial (like kings and communists) but the common meaning is the $$$

Maybe read some Guerin or get your hands on Harvard's breakdown heck, even SohnRethel's Economy and Class Structure of German Fascism could help you clarify what's happening. Though don't overlook Arthur Schweitzer's Big Business in the Third Reich. If you read these and still think the antifa are the fascists now, there may be no hope for smusalmon.

u/paganel · 4 pointsr/worldnews

> I mean I don't get it ? Who said it was a conspiracy theory ?

I've rust read some stuff yesterday related to arcana imperii, which literally means secrets of those in power/governing the State, in a book called Dictatorship, written by a (pretty smart) guy who was thought to be the Nazis' jurist:

> The most important example of the arcana literature is the book by Arnold Clapmar [1574-1604], which has been cited in seventeenth century as the standard work. In it the issue is analyzed with care and in detail, by its methodological aspects. With reference to the phrase arcana imperii ['secrets of power/secrets of the state'], which Tacitus uses in Annales (1.2) to describe the clever politics of Tiberius, this authority says, to begin with, that every scientific discipline - theology, jurisprudence, business, fine art, the art of war, or medicine - has its arcane. In all these disciplines we find certain tricks; they employ even cunning and betrayal in order to achieve their goal. But in the state certain events are always necessary that conjure the impression of freedom, simulacra or decorative occasions designed to pacify the population.

> Arcana republicae (secrets of the republic) are, in contrast to the obvious motives that appear from the outside, the inner forces of the state. According to the understanding that was common at the time, these are not some social and economic forces above the person; no, the motor of global history is the interest of the prince and of his secret council, a carefully prepared plan of those who govern and seek to maintain both themselves and the state - a plan whereby the power of the governors, the common good, and public order and security are one and the same, in a natural way.

(some of the italics added by me)

At least we can rest assured that the guys (they're mostly guys) governing us today are doing it based on centuries-old theories, not some made-up, modern stuff. And the simulacra and the decorative occasions designed to pacify us have also got a lot more interesting compared to what one could find in 17-th century Europe, I'm sure of that.

u/DANCOroommate · 1 pointr/badroommates

Over the course of the last year I have had 3 morbid examples of bad living situations. I think the universe is telling me something.... like clean up your credit and apply for the IT job you are avoiding because you don't like working with IT guys.... yes I have a degree and the employment background which is why I am avoiding getting back to that career path.

I am considering writing a small saga of bad living situations.

After leaving my mother's house (she had major surgery, recovered, went back to work, then as I was just starting a job) she took her boyfriend's advice to "tinker" with the electrical wiring in the kitchen and massively injured herself ended up in rehab after 2 weeks recovering from burns/being electrocuted and the house had to be partially rebuilt. Mind you this is the second time she has done this.

So I move into a friend's place I have known for 5 years. He's an open-minded free spirited and spiritual air line pilot. He's into shamanic drumming, reiki and what I didn't understand what it actually was "orgasmic massage". I kid you not.

https://www.amazon.com/Mindfuckers-Fascism-Including-Material-Followers/dp/0879320389

One of the main cult leaders chronicaled in the book is Victor Baranco, he taught the 4 hour extended female orgasm to Nicole Deadone. She in turn knew this friend of mine in the 80s when he was stationed in Hawaii as an airforce pilot. Search "Clit cult" on gawker.com

Naturally the friend of mine who is a pilot spent 5 of 7 months pressuring me to move to Sanfrancisco to live at the "One Taste" commune so he can visit regularly. I think he's banned from the place. Needless to say I haven't spoke to him again except to inform him I am blocking his number and to not contact me again.

Next was a house owned by a woman who claimed to be a social worker, a licensed social worker with a bachelors degree.

Neither which was true, she didn't actually live in the house and renting out rooms when she doesn't live there is illegal. I also checked with 8 states if she was licensed as a social worker, then the university she claims to attend isn't offering a masters degree in the field she claimed, so its obvious she is working on her undergrad degree. She mostly rented to people in substance abuse rehab on social security and was looking to get away from that.

Problem was the guy she left in charge of the place was on parole from federal prison who regularly relapses from meth. Methodone by the way is a hell of a drug to help people get their meth addiction under control. It makes them psychotic, and their bowel movements smell like a 4 month old rotting corpse. My bedroom was next to the bathroom and shared a vent. I nearly died from the stench.

The meth head threatened to make my life miserable living there, I recorded it sent it to the landlord and she told me it wasn't legal to record. Well this is a single party consent state, its legal. The meth head also hated the landlord yet wanted to fuck her. The meth head hated all women. Yet the landlord defended the meth head because he was in a large rehab and she volunteered there, hoping that if this guy 13 years into 15 years of parole turned himself around she'd get the credit thus an actual job within the state. Landlord worked in a different stated because she had looked for work for almost 2 years in this state, thus had to actually take any work she could.

I didn't mention there was a Nigerian living there as well who was an investment sales person who wanted me to believe he was the most buff, handsome and richest person I could know. Yet he took public transit like me and rented a room in a house just like me. I know the work he did, its pure commission and that's why his girlfriend and brother was paying his bills.

At least at the last house the landlord demanded neither roommate speak to me because she didn't want to risk me recording more audio of threats.

Now this place. I won't describe it in detail but its all audio recorded and I have photos of the immense shitload of mess the DANCOroommates made all summer long.

I also have court in 2 weeks because the girlfriend of the DANCOroommate is contesting the HRO I have against her. And some fucker applied for a discover card in my former married name (I got a divorce a decade ago) with the current address I live at.

The DANCOroommate had this nuts idea that my ex husband would testify against me at the HRO hearing so they are trying to find him.

Its pretty obvious both of the DANCOroommates are using skip tracing and applying for credit cards in my former married name to commit identity theft/bank fraud (which is the very first criminal conviction for the guy) to ruin me and to find out everything about me.

Not going into detail about the roommate/landlord who is running around bitching at me, because he's just a spoiled brat who won't pay child support even if he has told his father he needs more money to pay that child support, and he gets the money. It just never makes it to the county. I've tried to certified mail my rent payments to him, he won't pick up the certified mail (possibly because he's afraid it might be related to his child support case) and in the last couple days that certified mail was supposed to be returned to me at the house.... The certified mail with the rent hasn't shown up. I think the landlord took it. He has bizarre idea that money orders are like german barabonds and that they cannot be traced nor proven when the money order was purchased/made. So that's going to make him look crazy when I take him to small claims court.

I think I am at the point in my life that it can't get much worse. My divorce was bittersweet, this is absurd.

after I get a my own apartment, change jobs, clean up credit (possibly freeze my credit for a while), I will work on getting a federal job and move out of the mid west entirely. I've been told by a friend who is an attorney from DC (he travels for work, non-profit legal advocacy) that most of what have been through this last few months would be swiftly taken care of by law enforcement and courts. That either one of them would be in jail right now because enforcement is so much better outside of this Midwest hell hole.

The state I live in has to get better about providing affordable housing and enforcing laws. And yeah I am writing a book on this. Fuck it enough of its audio recorded.

On a positive note. I have good friends. I have repaired my relationship with my ex husband, my first fiancée (he's a shrink in the prison system, yeah he's had a good laugh at this), I am ready to move forward do some growing up and take steps careerwise and financially. Eventhough I am very good at my job, it doesn't pay well and its been rocky business as my bosses close an unproductive side venture; I was very angry at my bosses for their unfulfilled promises. It drained me, now that I have so much other stuff to be angry with my focus is much more in front of me, not fighting to make right on promises broken. I am much more able to leave things behind me.

u/Grandest_Inquisitor · 2 pointsr/conspiracy

I actually agree with you about Bugliosi . . . that he's a stooge . . . especially in the case of Manson.

I just thought he summarized the facts in a good way and his skepticism may be warranted in this one instance.

Btw, a good source on Manson that questions Bugliosi's claims is "Mindfuckers" -- that also discusses Mel Lyman and Victor Baranco. It's a great book expanding on original Rolling Stone articles.

u/conspirobot · 1 pointr/conspiro

Grandest_Inquisitor: ^^original ^^reddit ^^link

I actually agree with you about Bugliosi . . . that he's a stooge . . . especially in the case of Manson.

I just thought he summarized the facts in a good way and his skepticism may be warranted in this one instance.

Btw, a good source on Manson that questions Bugliosi's claims is "Mindfuckers" -- that also discusses Mel Lyman and Victor Baranco. It's a great book expanding on original Rolling Stone articles.

u/antonivs · 29 pointsr/MurderedByWords

> Sorry, I depend on science and facts

You should read The magical thinking of guys who love logic. "Science" is not the be-all and end-all of human knowledge.

There is no existing "science" which will accurately predict what the 327 million people of the United States are going to do politically and socially over the next few years, so if your standard for taking action is to wait for the science, you're going to sit around like a useless lump while the United States travels a very dark path.

> Especially when the op actually claims science supports such statements with at least one model and analysis.

That's not what they claimed. They described a "consensus among scholars and survivors." There are plenty of scholars who are not scientists, as you'll see below. What op is referring to is presumably the many warnings that have indeed been raised by scholars and survivors, of which the OP post is one. I'll list just a few of the more prominent ones, but if you search, you'll find many more.

  • Timothy Snyder, professor of history at Yale, in his book The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
  • Jason Stanley, professor of philosophy at Yale, How Fascism Works
  • Cass R. Sunstein, professor at Harvard Law School and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy, who is "by far the most cited law professor in the United States," in his book Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America
  • Madeline Albright, previously Ambassador to the UN and Secretary of State, in her book Fascism: A Warning
  • Holocaust survivor Stephen B. Jacobs: https://www.newsweek.com/im-holocaust-survivor-trumps-america-feels-germany-nazis-took-over-876965. There are many more warnings from survivors also, if you look for them.

    I'll also point out that it takes effort to produce such a list, so if you take the fact that people you're arguing with just don't bother, perhaps because they perceive you as not worth the effort, you're going to find yourself wallowing in ignorance while at the same time thinking you know it all. Which is precisely the problem that gets us into situations like the current one. If you want to be part of the solution, you have to take responsibility for educating yourself better.
u/DaiZzedandConFuZed · 1 pointr/MurderedByWords

Wow. there's a lot to unpack there. Lots of anger. You know what'd be awesome? Links. As is your post looks like a psycho rant on a post that's been posted 3 times.

This is how you do it:
People call Trump Hitler (your words, not mine, I'd just call him Fascist). Because he marginalizes free press. He also lies a lot and calls himself a nationalist. There's also articles and books written on this (and even updated!).

While it's certainly a smear (Trump is just almost a fascist). It still holds a lot more validity than this rant.

u/dabsncoffee · 76 pointsr/politics

Can it Happen Here is a great collection of writings discussing that very topic.

I highly recommend it.

https://www.amazon.com/Can-Happen-Here-Authoritarianism-America/dp/006269619X/ref=nodl_

u/THEDEALYLAMA · 3 pointsr/Libertarian

https://www.amazon.com/Doctrine-Fascism-Benito-Mussolini/dp/1682040054

Give it a read. Its really short, and reads like the democratic party platform.

u/morselsrule · -10 pointsr/reddit.com

Funny, I thought, "This kid has been lobbed the ultimate softball." The Anti-defamation league, People for the American Way, LA Times editorial staff, etc. live for a story like this. The major battles were all won decades ago, so it must be increasingly difficult to justify liberal paranoia over the encroachment of the religious right. Finding a backwater school district in New Jersey is perfect for them. One phone call and the entire establishment tastes the blood in the water. This kid will have no trouble getting into the college of his choice.

The entire idea of anyone trusting public school education is incredible to me. No one trusts Exxon-Mobil for climatology, why do people trust the state for government and history?

When a student gets in the LA Times for arguing that pledging to the flag constitutes an illegal civic religion, then I will be impressed. Even better would be challenging the schools for not teaching the other [biography of FDR](http://www.amazon.com/As-we-marching-John-Flynn/dp/09141560040, the skepticism over climate change, or the dangers of progressivism.

This kid may be brave on some level, but he is also the ultimate tool of the system.






u/ramsey66 · 1 pointr/AskEurope

The most convincing content I have read on support for right-wing authoritarian populist movements within liberal democracies is research done by the political psychologist Karen Stenner. Here is a link to her book The Authoritarian Dynamic and a link to one of her papers. I recommend reading this short interview which covers most of the main insights of her research. Depressing stuff, unfortunately.

u/TexasKilldozer · 3 pointsr/SubredditDrama

It seems like you're operating under a mistaken assumption I'm arguing against libertarianism. That is not the case. FFS, I voted libertarian in the last three presidential elections. (Yes, I voted for Bob Barr, to my eternal shame). I'm arguing against the shift towards right-wing authoritarianism in the libertarian movement.

I'm amazed that you are unaware that the libertarian movement is openly courting white nationalists. The LP of Florida has pretty much been taken over by fascists. Their chair resigned after a no-confidence vote was taken because he didn't like that Augustus Invictus -- an actual, literal fascist -- was involved with the party.

Mises president Jeff Deist wrote an article using the phrase "blood and soil". A week later, the white nationalists marching in Charlottesville were chanting that very phrase.

There is currently a large movement to remove National LP chair Nicholas Sarwark not because he is a fascist, but because he spoke out against the party's courting of right-wing authoritarians.

In this very thread there is a virtual wall of links -- written by a libertarian organization -- detailing the party's drastic shift toward right-wing collectivism.

How you can be unaware of this problem is beyond me. This is currently a huge issue being covered by virtually all libertarian publications. FEE's Jeffrey Tucker recently published a book about the problem. There is simply no excuse for anyone even peripherally interested in libertarianism to not know about this issue.

u/water_tastes_great · 1 pointr/ukpolitics

>Your ‘sources’ are a paywalled articles and a popular history book on Amazon - jog on.

I didn’t realise the article was paywalled. I read it years ago. Maybe it wasn’t paywalled back then.

If you just search for the title of that article though you’ll be able to find other sources.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-true-history-behind-londons-much-lauded-anti-fascist-battle-of-cable-street/

And calling it a popular history book to demean it’s worth means nothing when you are talking about a respected Professor in the subject.

If you want another, more academic book, you could read Political Violence and Public Order: A Study of British Fascism where Benewock identifies the contradiction between extreme nationalism and supporting fascist governments abroad as the main reason for the BUF’s collapse.

>After Cable Street Mussolini was so appalled with Mosley’s failure to gain “mastery of the streets” that he decided to end his financial subsidy

A couple of points to be made here.

Firstly, given your original point was that ‘Cable Street shows that violence can be an effective anti fascist strategy today’ this kind of effect does nothing to support you. There is no comparable Mussolini figure who will withdraw funding if you beat ‘em up good. White supremacists today don’t require the funding Mosley did to organise.

Secondly, although you attribute the withdrawal of the subsidy to the battle of Cable Street afaik it is more commonly attributed to the second of those two things mentioned there. The electoral success. That is definitely what was mentioned in the first book I provided a link to, and it is also what was blamed on this.

>At local council elections in 1937 the BUF stood in several parts of the country but did not win a single seat. Unimpressed, Mussolini withdrew the BUF’s subsidy.

Also, I googled your first couple of paragraphs and an interesting source came up.

http://www.cablestreet.uk

It appears to be where you lifted those paragraphs from. You might want to read more of it.

>Cable Street helped set in motion a more sophisticated and ultimately more successful brand of anti-fascist politics.

>The surge in support for Mosley immediately after Cable Street helped convince many, including Communist Party organiser Phil Piratin, that to defeat the BUF they had to tackle the genuine socio-economic grievances exploited by Mosley within the East End rather than simply meet it with physical force.

>Working with a network of tenants committees before forming the Stepney Tenants Defence League (STDL), Piratin and colleagues tackled the high rents charged by slum landlords for substandard accommodation. The STDL orchestrated rent strikes aimed at bringing landlords to the negotiating table, winning vital concessions and rent reductions for beleaguered tenants.

>Although the STDL was organised by Communists – many of whom were Jewish – they also saved fascist tenants from eviction. The STDL soon extended its work into the heart of the “fascist” East End, particularly areas such as Duckett Street, Stepney. The BUF had done nothing for them. As a result BUF cards were torn up in disgust.

>By helping local people overcome their problems and helping them to understand that these were not caused by “Jews” or “immigrants” the STDL proved that it is unity, rather than division, which enables communities to overcome its social deprivation.

>The lessons are there to be relearned.

u/nathanisfat · -5 pointsr/CringeAnarchy

No, De Gaulle fought the Nazis. Big difference. Especially since the West continues to embrace Fascism.

Edit: looks like a lot of you don't know what fascism is.

u/ChromaticDragon · 9 pointsr/politics

Worth the read.

If you have not yet read "The Authoritarians", I strongly urge you to do so. It's better formatted if you buy a print version.

The article references Karen Stenner's "The Authoritarian Dynamic". This seems to have been around the same time as Bob Altemeyer's work. I'm grabbing it.

The gist of the article is simply that the deeper problem here is Authoritarianism.

u/[deleted] · -2 pointsr/Documentaries

I don't know why you're getting downvoted for a documented fact

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1500555487/

u/Alixundr · 11 pointsr/de

Ja, von Dinesh d'Souza: "The Big Lie"

Meintest du wahrscheinlich nich, ist mir aber in den Sinn gekommen.

u/Seiesnalli · 1 pointr/videos

while you're busy tossing books around, I would highly suggest this one.

u/PeddaKondappa2 · 1 pointr/DebateFascism

Amazon has an overpriced paperback version:
https://www.amazon.com/Doctrine-Fascism-Benito-Mussolini/dp/1682040054

I'm not sure why you would bother buying it, though. The Doctrine of Fascism is more of a pamphlet than a "book." It's so short that you can just print out a PDF and read it, if you really want a physical copy.

u/scarthearmada · 2 pointsr/Anarcho_Capitalism

>One of my friends who is a "limited government" libertarian told me the problem with anarchy is that it will lead to more government. I of course responded, well that seems to be the problem with limited government too.

So, anarchy leads to government (probably always to an extent, but there are examples of anarcho societies that have existed longer than the United States has been a nation). Limited government leads to more government. And more government leads to more government. Therefore we're all fucked?

>There seems to be noway in preventing this band of criminals from taking over society. It seems that man is just doomed to live in tyranny.

Eh, not really. History is cyclical -- it has no (universal) end. Fukuyama was wrong about that, and an asshole. Mises, Hayek and Flynn were right: government leads to more government, and liberty is abandoned at home. Such societies reach a stage of cultural and economic stagnation.

Heinlein probably nailed it best in -- or at least perhaps most famously -- in speculative fiction. Various works of his explore political systems as changing depending upon how far away from home you are. People join together to form tribes, and they live in villages. Villages grow into towns, towns into cities, cities into kingdoms / nations. Nations into empires. Empires collapse, and political life becomes more local again.

And, as people become politically frustrated, economically or religiously oppressed, or more adventurous (as a result of accumulated wealth), they begin to explore the frontier, and so the process starts all over again in another place. That's the cycle of history.

For western civilization, the exploration took Europeans around the world, and founded colonies in the Americas. Wealth accumulated. Government grew, as economies were able to support it. And much of the developing world was lifted up with us. So now we're starting to explore the next frontier: space.

Liberty will again reign, just not here. The beauty of it this time, however, is that space is practically infinite. Space will be free.

u/morphogenes · 0 pointsr/China

Not literally Hitler? Were you even around during the travel ban? What about right after the election, when ecstatic Trump supporters beat up Muslims and spraypainted swastikas everywhere? "Make America White Again", they said.

If you're admitting he's not Hitler, that is a HUGE step forward and a big win for Trump.

> “Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline [every Trump speech], humiliation or victimhood [Mexican rapists invading our borders] and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity [Make America GREAT Again!], in which a massed-based party of committed nationalist militants [Trump’s base], working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites [GOP], abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion [violent political rallies, torture, walls, seizing oil fields in Iraq].”


Just look at these images - come on, moving up from Hitler to incompetent boob is a gargantuan upgrade. What's next, "I don't agree with him but he's not that bad"?


> The most historical figure most commonly referred to as an analogue to Donald Trump is Adolf Hitler. Instead of dismissing the parallels, isn't it time that we confront them, and consider them seriously?

-- Trump and Hitler: A Responsible Consideration (2017)