Elvain
20-11-2006, 10:52
Fascism is Rome's method of governance. Mussolini twisted it considerably. Originally it was a capitalistic system with a central Senate and an Emperor that was appointed by the Senate, though frequently the Emperor was hereditary. so was it originaly Roman or capitalistic? because ion Rome, there was no capitalism.
You are right that Facism is quite successfull in certain time periods, but it always works just temporarily. Do you consider a system that is able to work just for one generation as successfull?
Unlike democracy it is very stable (for it's period), but after all it mostly loses against inner oposition or transforms into diferent government type.
On the other hand, democracy is rather inconsistent but except usurpation of power it doesn't lead to inner revolution but rather into apathy of the electorate (today) because ordinary people don't have abilities to understand how the state shuold be governed. That leads to populism, but with healthy society the system twists between facist populism and weak governments.
Hitler was facist, he just incorporated even more radical ideas, he kinda "upgraded" facism into nazism, into even worse rule.
Stalin in fact was a facist as well, he just used other ideology.
facism is system of rule and it uses other ideologies to rule the people (communism, nazism, religions). Those ideologies, depending on their orientation then encourage other positives of human life (strong economy, religious rights, personal rights, good system of moral values) but it always picks one which opresses the pthers (communism puts equality of people over all other rights, religious system puts moral values over all other rights, nazism puts racist theory over all other rights)
democracy is not always system where the masses rule. It can work in small states where certain people are able to decide about the community.
Today the masses are tider of elections and become apathic to politics so populists come to rule and they only want personal power.
The only advantage of democracy is that it oppresses the smallest number of personal rights. It is something between a system where the government works (both positive and negative) and limits personal rights and between anarchy which doesn't work but the rights stay over the life.
You are right that Facism is quite successfull in certain time periods, but it always works just temporarily. Do you consider a system that is able to work just for one generation as successfull?
Unlike democracy it is very stable (for it's period), but after all it mostly loses against inner oposition or transforms into diferent government type.
On the other hand, democracy is rather inconsistent but except usurpation of power it doesn't lead to inner revolution but rather into apathy of the electorate (today) because ordinary people don't have abilities to understand how the state shuold be governed. That leads to populism, but with healthy society the system twists between facist populism and weak governments.
Hitler was facist, he just incorporated even more radical ideas, he kinda "upgraded" facism into nazism, into even worse rule.
Stalin in fact was a facist as well, he just used other ideology.
facism is system of rule and it uses other ideologies to rule the people (communism, nazism, religions). Those ideologies, depending on their orientation then encourage other positives of human life (strong economy, religious rights, personal rights, good system of moral values) but it always picks one which opresses the pthers (communism puts equality of people over all other rights, religious system puts moral values over all other rights, nazism puts racist theory over all other rights)
democracy is not always system where the masses rule. It can work in small states where certain people are able to decide about the community.
Today the masses are tider of elections and become apathic to politics so populists come to rule and they only want personal power.
The only advantage of democracy is that it oppresses the smallest number of personal rights. It is something between a system where the government works (both positive and negative) and limits personal rights and between anarchy which doesn't work but the rights stay over the life.