Human language is a living and changing phenomenon. It is impossible to definitively grasp the semantic field of a word. In fact, the field grows without a caesar, often branching out into seemingly antagonistic alternatives. This is what happened with the term “fascism”. This expression was undoubtedly misused to whitewash the adversary. For the radical izquierda, creer en Dios y la familia is synonymous with fascism. Fascism, however, is something else entirely.
In a strictly historical sense, fascism is a political movement created in Italy in 1919 by Benito Mussolini. Its ideological pillars are irrationalism, extreme nationalism, authoritarianism, anti-liberalism, anti-communism, corporatism, leader cult, militarism and imperialism. In this sense, fascism and popular thought seem opposed, but an analysis of Marxist texts and communist regimes reveals that this antagonism is only relative.
Communism is internationalist and rationalist, but it also includes authoritarianism, anti-liberalism, caudilism, militarism and imperialism in its philosophy and historical development. Fascism and Communism introduced state planning into the market economy and brought misery to the countries that adopted this model.. Indeed, sometimes they corrected immediately.
After the Bolsheviks seized power through a coup d’état and civil war, they instigated massive riots that killed thousands and caused a drastic decline in industrial production. This disaster sparked riots and a peasant uprising, brutally suppressed by the Red Army at the behest of Leon Trotsky.
In Kronstadt, a naval fortress on the island of Kotlin in the Gulf of Finland, the hideous Soviet marines, communists and anarchist soldiers were subjected to the rumble received by the October Revolution. The demand for rights and freedoms that led to the Bolsheviks’ monopoly of power was met with violent repression that cost thousands of lives.
Tras fusilar or deportar to the disaffected, The Supreme Soviet adopted a mixed policy that allowed the free market, private ownership and foreign inversion under certain conditionswe can understand that there is no other way to avoid economic and social collapse. The state only reserves control over banking, the financial industry, transport and foreign trade.
The Checha and the Gulag were not invented by Stalin, but by Lenin, and he was their target from the first moment turn terror into state policy to materialize the irreconcilable law of history which – following historical materialism – implies the necessary and inevitable demise of decadent classes such as prosperity and aristocracy. Marx abdicated not for democracy, but for a utopia that could only be achieved through violence and a temporary dictatorship.
After these stages, the human being, definitively emancipated from the state and the forced specialization of labor inherent in the market economy, will enjoy abundance and prosperity based on communal ownership and circulation of goods. If we are attuned to things and thoughts, Communism can be categorized as a form of fascism, as Hannah Arendt advised.
According to the RAE’s definition, fascism is not just a creation of Mussolini, who achieved a racist relationship with Hitler, but any authoritarian and anti-democratic ideology or attitude. So, do not represent the oxymoron of “national fascism”.
Some people prefer to use the term “totalitarianism” here, but what is certain is that totalitarianism cannot be strictly defined until there is a state with the power to exercise total domination, much like Hitler or Stalin. I believe that in the end it is essential to condemn that authoritarianism, intolerance and violence can also be sins of society. Likewise, it can be legitimately argued that the liberal right does not qualify as fascism.
Thoughts and theories Raymond Aaron, Karl Popper or Isaiah Berlin they are inscribed in the democratic tradition, which cannot be said of Lenin’s philosophy. Fascist ideology is something else and is represented by similar figures Carl Schmitt, Giovanni Gentile, Ernst Junger, Martin Heidegger, Ramiro Ledesma Ramos, Robert Brasillach, Alain de Benoist or Renaud Camuscreator of the theory of the Great Replacement.
Some historical facts are made supremely clear. Hannah Arendt used the wisdom of Adolf Eichmann to develop her controversial theory regarding the banality of evil. Judiciary and practice of the Czechoslovak legal profession and politics Milada Horáková do not suggest that evil is banal, down to the natural vastness of totalitarianism.
A social democrat, feminist and member of the secret resistance against the Nazi occupation, which cost her torture by the Gestapo and deportation to the Terezín concentration camp and other internment centers until the end of World War II, Horáková participated in the mission in the National Provisional Assembly until the end of World War II. 1948, when the communists staged a coup d’état and suspended the fledgling democracy.
Although she could have been deported, Milada preferred to stay in her country to fight for the preservation of democratic freedoms. Detained by the communist regime, he underwent brutal interrogations that included physical and psychological torture similar to what he experienced during his time in Gestapo prisons. In reality, it was a farce, half a spectacle after the Great Purge organized by Stalinwhich included the lives of thousands of people, in many cases old Bolsheviks, socialists or anarchists.
Albert Einstein, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, French President Vincent Auriol and former First Lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt, sentenced to death, sought pardon, but in vain. On June 27, 1950, Milada was killed in the courtyard of the Pankrák prison by the method of the Austrian post, the procedure did not guarantee immediate death, as the death was too short.
Your last words were: “I have lost this skin, but I travel with honor. I love this country, I love this nation, I love you for your happiness. I travel without pitying you. I long, I long…”. Horák’s body was burned and his remains were stored or scattered in an unknown location. After the fall of the communist regime, Czechoslovakia honored his memory with the highest honors and one of the main streets in Prague was named after him.
June 27, the day of his execution, is today “Commemoration Day for the Victims of the Communist Regime”. The Czech Republic has exceeded its history. It was carried out in 2017 Miladamovie from David Mrnka starring Israeli actress Ayelet Zurer, who tells the story of the fight against the communist regime and its tragic end.
Totalitarianism is not born from critical thinking, but from an idea that qualifies as unapologetic dogma. The Nazis used their interpretation of natural law to justify the death of the most vulnerable. Hitler merely repeated that he alone had created in nature a cruel and implacable teacher. From this point of view, the German peoples represent the most perfect form of humanity and nothing should stand in the way of their hegemony.
The extermination of Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, invalids and other groups is imperative because natural selection dictates that the imperfect and diseased must disappear from the earth. The Incomplir was sent dooming our species to gradual decadence. The Bolsheviks did not appeal to natural law, but to the law of historywhich hopes for the demise of capitalism in a series of stages.
Hannah Arendt warns that totalitarianism does not bother her. Although the experience is based on her thesis, it is related to it.
The final phase, which will mean the disappearance of private property and the violent division of labor, will involve an inevitable form, but when the revolutionary vanguard arrives, it will accelerate and reduce the class struggle and eliminate the enemies of the proletariat. It is not enough to indulge in prosperity and aristocracy. Any form of dissent, peaceful or violent, hinders the march of history and replicates the advent of communism.
Hannah Arendt warns that totalitarianism does not bother her. Although the experience stems from her thesis, she sticks to it and uses terror to realize her political project. The totalitarian temptation is not a phenomenon of the past, but a historical constantespecially after the genocides committed by Hitler and Stalin. “Toda época continues fascism”declared Primo Levi, an Auschwitz survivor.
It cannot be argued that the izquierda is exempt from this. In the 1970s, the violence of GRAPO, Montoneros, Tupamaros, Baader–Meinhof, People’s Revolutionary Army, Red Brigades, ETA and other similar terrorist groups destabilized consolidated or fledgling democracies.
These organizations are not fighting for independence, like the National Liberation Front of Algeria, but for an ideology. Currently, this service is disabled, but it has taken its place derech populism. Contemporary historian Timothy Snyderstaunch supporters of liberal democracy, do not consider it unlikely that Donald Trump would resort to a coup to avoid leaving the White House.
Nazis and Bolsheviks are two dears of the same money. At this moment, democracy is at stake
It doesn’t matter where the fun comes from. Nazis and Bolsheviks are two dears of the same money. At this moment, democracy is at stake. Democracy is imperfect, but it has mechanisms to correct itselfsuch as the distribution of property, freedom of thought and political succession. Ideologies are seductive, they can promise heaven, but history has taught us that they only open the doors of hell.
In a democratic society, it represents the right to feel healthy social hygiene and creates the conditions for real change. By exchange in totalitarian societies such as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union, the impossibility of feeling destroys the possibilities of exchange. Donald Trump, Putin and other populist leaders are trying to silence their opponentscriminalizing the right to protest in order to impose a totalitarian regime across the street.
Before this disappointment, it is no longer possible to record the words of Albert Camus: “The only way to face a world without freedom is to abandon yourself so absolutely that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” Let’s stand up for the rebellion and raise our voice against the different masks of totalitywithout forgetting that one of his favorite diversions is false utopias exalted by grandiose rhetoric.
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