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Originally Posted by Nihilist_santa
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I wanted to readdress the issue of fascism and racism. I would be interested to know what your professors basis for this is. To my knowledge only one ethnocentric fascist state has existed. Mussolini rejected Hitler's racial views. Francoist were Catholics and so have an inherent degree of universalism. Milosoevic's reign was ethnocentric but I am unsure of just how much "fascism" there was there since I haven't studied the issue as much. I think fascism has become a misnomer.
Now if as I said before its because of the nationalism that is as I said owed to the exclusivity of the ideology however depending on the cultural makeup of a country you could be a fascist nationalist without being a racist (see the above).
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He used to have extensive video available on youtube. For some reason, it recently vanished. All that is left is his first class to epistemology...you can get a feel for the guy if nothing else.
https://vimeo.com/88210640
Other than that, all I know is he is a tea party activist, but has kind of a green anarcho bend or some weird shit. I think he has some Native American ancestry that bread a distrust of government and welfare into him. He is an atheist now, but wasn't always.
I think we tend to consider all these ethnocentric(sometimes violent) groups that pop up in US/Europe fascist. That is why the label is associated with racism. Fascism might not need to be racial in theory, but for some reason it is in practice.
But you bring up an interesting point about Mussolini and Spain. Hitler probably would say that Mussolini was just a blowhard and not a fascist and our historians/sociologists would probably agree with him. But this might be a matter of spectrum. With more extreme fascism being more often racist and lesser forms being simply authoritarian. Asian governments can be seen as a fascist governments on the lesser end of the spectrum.