Fascism- revisited

[Gdjjr]

Revisiting Theodore W. Adorno’s work on the ‘authoritarian personality’ and the ‘F Scale’ reveals that in 2020, it is actually liberals, progressives and the so called ‘Left’ that manifest 8 out of the 9 most problematic, antidemocratic and authoritarian attitudes.


The theory of an authoritarian personality was introduced in the 1930s in an attempt to explain the mass appeal of fascism and right-wing ideologies. It came to life in the wake of a sharp rise in the popularity of fascist movements in many European societies in the inter-war period.


At the time, many European ideologists and intellectuals were deeply inspired by Marx and Freud. Marxism predicted that the great depression would translate into a vast shift in working class conciousness, materialising into a global socialist revolution. Of course, this didn’t happen. The economic crisis resulted instead in mass support for nationalist and fascist movements that were often deeply anti-Semitic.


The rational behind the above deviation from the Marxist prophecy borrowed some Freudian theoretical mechanisms. ‘People are authoritarians’ was the given ‘explanation’: under certain threatening conditions ‘authoritarian characters’ are emotionally and cognitively vulnerable to the appeal of fascist and nationalist ideologies.


During the 1930s a score of Jewish Germanic intellectuals mainly (but not at all) associated with the Frankfurt School (e.g., Wilhelm Reich) were committed to point at the psychological and socio-economic conditions responsible for the making of the Authoritarian personality.

The Fascist Scale Revisited

 

[Agit8r]

The term applies to anyone who sounds like this, regardless of how dumbed-down the argument has become:

"After socialism, Fascism trains its guns on the whole block of democratic ideologies, and rejects both their premises and their practical applications and implements. Fascism denies that numbers, as such, can be the determining factor in human society; it denies the right of numbers to govern by means of periodical consultations; it asserts the irremediable and fertile and beneficent inequality of men who cannot be leveled by any such mechanical and extrinsic device as universal suffrage"
--Benito Mussolini; from 'The Doctrine of Fascism (1932)

 

[MisterBeale]

The term applies to anyone who sounds like this, regardless of how dumbed-down the argument has become:

"After socialism, Fascism trains its guns on the whole block of democratic ideologies, and rejects both their premises and their practical applications and implements. Fascism denies that numbers, as such, can be the determining factor in human society; it denies the right of numbers to govern by means of periodical consultations; it asserts the irremediable and fertile and beneficent inequality of men who cannot be leveled by any such mechanical and extrinsic device as universal suffrage"
--Benito Mussolini; from 'The Doctrine of Fascism (1932)

. . hmmm . . .

Sounds suspiciously like the World Economic Forum and the World Health Organization which is foisting the new normal and the Great Reset on us.

Ain't that a kick?

 

[occupied]

It's easy to see who the fascists are when the rabble get angry and take to the streets in protest. If you see that and think someone needs a beatdown you might be a fascist.

 

[justinacolmena]

I woman locally dared to open up her restaurant a little while ago because she was losing everything she had, and you should have seen the reaction of all the leftists.

I don't need a restaurant, but I do know a certain cop who is going to die for that.

 

[TheGreatSatan]

It's easy to see who the fascists are when the rabble get angry and take to the streets in protest. If you see that and think someone needs a beatdown you might be a fascist.

By protest you mean terrorist attack. Democrats are domestic terrorists working with China to take America over. Most Democrats are just useful idiots doing what they do for crumbs Democrats promise them.

 

[occupied]

It's easy to see who the fascists are when the rabble get angry and take to the streets in protest. If you see that and think someone needs a beatdown you might be a fascist.

By protest you mean terrorist attack. Democrats are domestic terrorists working with China to take America over. Most Democrats are just useful idiots doing what they do for crumbs Democrats promise them.

Found one.

 

[bripat9643]

Revisiting Theodore W. Adorno’s work on the ‘authoritarian personality’ and the ‘F Scale’ reveals that in 2020, it is actually liberals, progressives and the so called ‘Left’ that manifest 8 out of the 9 most problematic, antidemocratic and authoritarian attitudes.


The theory of an authoritarian personality was introduced in the 1930s in an attempt to explain the mass appeal of fascism and right-wing ideologies. It came to life in the wake of a sharp rise in the popularity of fascist movements in many European societies in the inter-war period.


At the time, many European ideologists and intellectuals were deeply inspired by Marx and Freud. Marxism predicted that the great depression would translate into a vast shift in working class conciousness, materialising into a global socialist revolution. Of course, this didn’t happen. The economic crisis resulted instead in mass support for nationalist and fascist movements that were often deeply anti-Semitic.


The rational behind the above deviation from the Marxist prophecy borrowed some Freudian theoretical mechanisms. ‘People are authoritarians’ was the given ‘explanation’: under certain threatening conditions ‘authoritarian characters’ are emotionally and cognitively vulnerable to the appeal of fascist and nationalist ideologies.


During the 1930s a score of Jewish Germanic intellectuals mainly (but not at all) associated with the Frankfurt School (e.g., Wilhelm Reich) were committed to point at the psychological and socio-economic conditions responsible for the making of the Authoritarian personality.

The Fascist Scale Revisited

Adorno was a communist propagandist. He devoted his career to making excuses to get leftwingers off the hook for fascism.

 

[bripat9643]

It's easy to see who the fascists are when the rabble get angry and take to the streets in protest. If you see that and think someone needs a beatdown you might be a fascist.

By protest you mean terrorist attack. Democrats are domestic terrorists working with China to take America over. Most Democrats are just useful idiots doing what they do for crumbs Democrats promise them.

Found one.

The fascists are the scum running wild in the street, assaulting people and burning down buildings. Those who defend this behavior are also fascists.

 

[TheGreatSatan]

It's easy to see who the fascists are when the rabble get angry and take to the streets in protest. If you see that and think someone needs a beatdown you might be a fascist.

By protest you mean terrorist attack. Democrats are domestic terrorists working with China to take America over. Most Democrats are just useful idiots doing what they do for crumbs Democrats promise them.

Found one.

The fascists are the scum running wild in the street, assaulting people and burning down buildings. Those who defend this behavior are also fascists.

If Democrats protested peacefully there wouldn't be any issues. Instead they burn, loot, and murder and defend people doing it. Then they call the victims of their terrorist "fascist".

 

[occupied]

It's easy to see who the fascists are when the rabble get angry and take to the streets in protest. If you see that and think someone needs a beatdown you might be a fascist.

By protest you mean terrorist attack. Democrats are domestic terrorists working with China to take America over. Most Democrats are just useful idiots doing what they do for crumbs Democrats promise them.

Found one.

The fascists are the scum running wild in the street, assaulting people and burning down buildings. Those who defend this behavior are also fascists.

If Democrats protested peacefully there wouldn't be any issues. Instead they burn, loot, and murder and defend people doing it. Then they call the victims of their terrorist "fascist".

Most of the protests were entirely peaceful yet the right called every single one of them a riot and closed ranks around even the worst police officers.

 

[danielpalos]

Revisiting Theodore W. Adorno’s work on the ‘authoritarian personality’ and the ‘F Scale’ reveals that in 2020, it is actually liberals, progressives and the so called ‘Left’ that manifest 8 out of the 9 most problematic, antidemocratic and authoritarian attitudes.


The theory of an authoritarian personality was introduced in the 1930s in an attempt to explain the mass appeal of fascism and right-wing ideologies. It came to life in the wake of a sharp rise in the popularity of fascist movements in many European societies in the inter-war period.


At the time, many European ideologists and intellectuals were deeply inspired by Marx and Freud. Marxism predicted that the great depression would translate into a vast shift in working class conciousness, materialising into a global socialist revolution. Of course, this didn’t happen. The economic crisis resulted instead in mass support for nationalist and fascist movements that were often deeply anti-Semitic.


The rational behind the above deviation from the Marxist prophecy borrowed some Freudian theoretical mechanisms. ‘People are authoritarians’ was the given ‘explanation’: under certain threatening conditions ‘authoritarian characters’ are emotionally and cognitively vulnerable to the appeal of fascist and nationalist ideologies.


During the 1930s a score of Jewish Germanic intellectuals mainly (but not at all) associated with the Frankfurt School (e.g., Wilhelm Reich) were committed to point at the psychological and socio-economic conditions responsible for the making of the Authoritarian personality.

The Fascist Scale Revisited

Right wingers seem to prefer socialism on a national and international basis over free market Capitalism.

 

[bripat9643]

It's easy to see who the fascists are when the rabble get angry and take to the streets in protest. If you see that and think someone needs a beatdown you might be a fascist.

By protest you mean terrorist attack. Democrats are domestic terrorists working with China to take America over. Most Democrats are just useful idiots doing what they do for crumbs Democrats promise them.

Found one.

The fascists are the scum running wild in the street, assaulting people and burning down buildings. Those who defend this behavior are also fascists.

If Democrats protested peacefully there wouldn't be any issues. Instead they burn, loot, and murder and defend people doing it. Then they call the victims of their terrorist "fascist".

Most of the protests were entirely peaceful yet the right called every single one of them a riot and closed ranks around even the worst police officers.

Here's the leftwing conception of a "peaceful protest."