Fighting modern fascism | Paul Mason

[@raresmircea]

Thank you, it would be fantastic if you’d also release full vids now and again

[@ablues15]

So many videos about identifying fascism but understanding how to actually fight it is a topic that people may feel hopeless or lost with.

[@modolief]

2:30 A historian called Ernst Nolte, a German conservative, became the first serious writer to attempt a history of 3 fascisms: 1) Nazism, 2) Mussolini's fascism, 3) the fascism of a failed right wing group called Action Francaise. *The Three Faces of Fascism* -- with an assumption that there was a fascist era and now it's over with.

[@clivesmith9377]

What about the Japanese fascism?

[@channelsandy]

@@clivesmith9377 It wasn't. It was waaaay more complex. It displayed some of the markers of fascism, industrial military union, hyper gender roles, even racism and camps, but its roots are in the decision to transform the nation in just a short time. They argued they were anti colonial and "liberating" asia while their field commanders committed atrocities. There was no single leader either, just a collection of military and industrial leaders in competition. The emperor was largely powerless, the army and navy fought each other for power. You can read all sorts of letters showing the dysfunction of this and the rather lawless state of the units in the field. For a good history, listen to Dan Carlin's six-part podcast Supernova in the East. He does a good job of synthesizing recent scholarship into a detailed sing narrative.

[@Alex-g4q4r]

You can tell by these comments his work really hits sensitive points of neo-Nazi ideology and the far right nationalists. They always seem to brigade KZbin comment sections when they get brought up. Eerie.

[@Xcalator35]

This is of too much importance not be here in its entirely!!

[@chuckdeuces911]

This is as unimportant of a subject in the world as there can be... this is fascism. Talking about combatting fascism is just fascism... anti racism is racism and so on.

[@TomKaitchuck]

Is there a non-payment way to see this?

[@coryhoggatt7691]

When a speaker “explains” what someone REALLY means, contrary to what they actually say, it’s plainly propaganda. This nonsense isn’t up to the standards of iai.

[@CesarSanchez-et7qg]

If you beleive everything politicians say you'll easily fall for facism.

[@frederickarchibaldchumly-w2163]

Its vague. I'm trying to work out who exactly he is calling fascists. It's sounded at the end like he said people who don't want vaccinations fascists. Also people who don't believe in science and instead believe their imagination. So all religious people must be fascists. I don't know what this guy is trying to say but your right it's smells of some kind of propaganda😷

[@chuckdeuces911]

@@frederickarchibaldchumly-w2163 it's just frightful, fall in line pandering. The funny thing is I've only seen 3 videos from this institution mainly to see Sabine but I was just watching one on TV where the argument they were exploring had to do with scientists peer reviewing each other's trash science in order to push it through then some philosopher said something about science being ineffective when it was only middle aged white men and he was a middle aged white man and my thought was what does this have to do with anything? So o came to comment on that and all I saw was that every other video is something about trash leftist media ideals. Progressive trash that is anti evidence based science...

[@rrobak6477]

So basically, opposing "progress", supporting the notion that the very notion may in the long run bring more loss, damage than real benefit is fascism?

[@gothicgirlfriend7375]

♡ beautiful

[@frozzytango9927]

The fascist are often the ones who says they are fighting fascist.

[@clivesmith9377]

idiot

[@emmetbergin6016]

Fascists are usually too stupid to understand what fascism is.

[@thefreshexpress8615]

What fascist groups call themselves anti-fascist?

[@jackspring7709]

Check out Paul Mason's attempts to destroy journalist Max Blumenthal and his Grayzone channel. Very sobering stuff for anyone, who, like me, thought Mason was a man of integrity.

[@yoshikhurazi1769]

31 fascists so far have downvoted this video. Either that or people are annoyed about this being an incomplete video 🤷‍♂️

[@brandonheaton6197]

i thought about downvoting the video for grossly misidentifying the timing of the fascist take over in the US. The fascists clearly made progress from 1933 when Senator Prescott Bush et al. attempted to hire Smedley Butler to lead a march on washington dc to the time Prescott's hired man Nixon was president to the time Prescott's son was president to the time his grandson was president and they started their ficticious war on terror to stir anti-muslim sentiment in the west, simultaneously building support for their atrocious wars and propping up their investments with the war profiteers

[@yoshikhurazi1769]

@@brandonheaton6197 Oooh, that sounds super interesting. Do you have any lecture or book recommendations that I can check out to learn more?

[@brandonheaton6197]

@@yoshikhurazi1769 sure, do you want to know about The Business Plot from 1933 specifically?

[@yoshikhurazi1769]

@@brandonheaton6197 Yeah, as well as general information about America pre WW2

[@chuckdeuces911]

What is a fascist? Who are fascists? Anti vaxxers are fascists? Isn't that slightly counterintuitive? I read all these comments in this thread and are you guys like leftists version of Qanon, seriously? Conspiracy theorists right? But since you think you're leftist it can't be a conspiracy theory?

[@ryanlowe1781]

I see Paul's forgotten his meds again.

[@Olematonnimi]

This guy clearly has no idea about what fascism is.

[@paulies5407]

Totally detached from reality is Paul Mason, has been for best part of a decade.

[@feynmanschwingere_mc2270]

Enlighten me Einstein. Define Fascism. And then show why/how Mason's definition departs from the "real" definition of Fascism.

[@feynmanschwingere_mc2270]

@@paulies5407 How so. Explain. Otherwise you sound like a....fascist. Fascists deny the Holocaust. Racists deny the historical fact of slavery and apartheid. Enlighten me.

[@Pw6872]

Oh, please. Who's the best source for definition? Your angry professor? Get real.

[@thepathofeden73]

@@feynmanschwingere_mc2270 a Fascist puts the Nation over the individual. A Fascist believes his nation is superior. On the DOCTRINE OF FASCISM it says "The Fascist loves his neighbor" Mussolini condemned racism and focused on national pride and unity rather than race. He also said "Race? It is just a feeling"

[@Mr.Ambrose_Dyer_Armitage_Esq.]

"Global fascism" is an oxymoron, like "clean homosexual" or "smart woman". Fascism, simply put, is the spiritual worship of the nation-state...of which the "globe" couldn't possibly constitute. You _could_ live in a fascist world with many competing fascist nations but, you cannot unify a diverse collection of nations under one, single fascist regime. By nature, it's a diverse application of that statism to individual nations and their majorities.

[@Purpleh4ze404]

They are all different but are still recognizable as fascist and thus be categorized together as such.. it isn’t literally a global fascist movement but its many fascist movements around the globe that have great similarities with each other such as being anti feminist, anti woke, anti immigrant, anti Marxist etc

[@Mr.Ambrose_Dyer_Armitage_Esq.]

@@Purpleh4ze404 Wow...I think you might actually believe the sh|t that just sludged out of your mouth...

[@therealignotus7549]

This man who isnt a historian, and CLEARLY has no clue and hasnt bothered to read anything wants to tell us something? Common. He is a commentator, thats all, and not a very bright one tbh...

[@clivesmith9377]

You are talking out of your *rs*. Mason has written more than a dozen books on politics, Environment, traveling, plays and articles for British and International press. He graduated from the University of Sheffield with a degree in music and politics in 1981 and trained to be a music teacher at London University Institute of Education, after which he undertook postgraduate research into the music of the Second Viennese School, at the University of Sheffield until 1984. He lived in Leicester for 6 years, working as a music teacher and lecturer in music at Loughborough University. From 1995 to 2001 he worked for Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier, on titles including Contract Journal, Community Care and Computer Weekly, of which he was deputy editor. He's the director of the political consulting and media firm Exarcheia Ltd. He continuously writes and presents programs for TV and radio. WHAT ABOUT YOU?

[@Purpleh4ze404]

What did he say that put your panties in a twist

[@rdg71-o9t]

What about Left wing Fascism?

[@Purpleh4ze404]

There is none… left wing authoritarianism maybe, but it’s distinct from fascism

[@ablues15]

I am not sure it is helpful to consider fascism in terms of left/right ideology. This video should be less focused on the characteristics and taxonomy of fascism and more to do with fighting it. I think it is inaccurate to say that fascism is not compatible with list-wing ideology but typically we see a right-wing ideology transform into fascism. There could be an argument and discussion about how left-wing ideology is vulnerable to transforming into fascism. For example, there may be many perspectives which align “wokism” with fascism, in that in many ways it seems like a rejection of objectivity and intellectualism (even though many will recognise its foundations in academia). I am not sure that this could be considered a transformation into fascism, but it may be what you have in mind.

[@thefreshexpress8615]

Oxymoron

[@chuckdeuces911]

This guy has some guilt in his life doesn't he? Why do people always want to place negative blame on everyone? You can't trust someone whose life and career lie on a negative assumption. This guy needs bad to happen for him to be successful otherwise what a waste of time for him..

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

substantive human rights confederation ordained priest / minister kingships authority

[@janklaas6885]

🇺🇳8:34 rationel, but NOT logical. 😃