You know it's fascism when...

What is fascism?

Folks smarter than me have spent entire careers teasing that out. Look at Gramsci... or at least read up a little about him and what he had to say about fascism.

Our touchstone when contemplating this definition is always Nazi Germany, and to a lesser extent, Mussolini's Italy.

Still, there is no convenient and universally agreed definition. There are, however, some commonalities among the various definitions the past has bequeathed us.

First among those commonalities, the melding of the corporate sector with the state, and secondly, the "defence" sector gaining primacy within the corporate sector.

That's where we're at. Both Israel and the USA meet the definition of a fascist state today.

Which makes it doubly ironic that one is the indispensable democracy and the other is the only democracy in the Middle East.

And we wonder why "democracy" has lost its charm?


Throughout the 20th century, everybody knew who the "Reds" were.

The commies. The pinkos.

The reds were always and everywhere the left.

But look at what massive media manipulation has achieved; in America today, it's the red that's blue, and the blue that's red.

In a similar vein, historically, it was always a tactic of the fascist right to stir up street violence. But look at what happened in Portland the other week. Some anti-fascist activists beat the crap out of a gay Asian reporter because... I'm not entirely sure, but apparently he was a "fascist."

If you step back and take a look at the big picture, that almost makes sense.

Red is Blue. Blue is Red.


The fascistic enthusiasms of our anti-fascists are truly frightening.