Quote from: SirArthur on November 01, 2018, 12:51:53 PM

For ages "Fascism" has been used as pure insult, this attitude deprived it from meaning as calling one Fascist or SoB resumes to the same, doesn't exactly means he is indeed a fascist or his mother is a prostitute. Madeleine Albright lately wrote on this subject over the very same concern.

What IS Fascism on strict sense?

From the little Mussolini left behind him, we can establish that any ideology who wants to centralize full power at the State is a Fascist ideology, but little more can be establish beyond the burden of doubt to be or not fascist behavior or ideology, as we start to collide with other ideologies, such as communism, which, by such narrow definition, are fascists, or even worse extreme fascists, as the state controls absolutely everything on society.

So... how can we define and give it a meaning?

I define the research of fascism as the lacking of self-responsibility, people want someone in charge to think and act for themselves. Politics are the reflection of the family environment, societies where fathers play a huge authority tend to be more fascist than others.

Then there are those countries where the majority of the people would like to rebel to the authority but fear the power of the hegemony, this is not fascism in the strict sense but an enabled oligarchy, one example I could make is China. Chinese government makes a different class from the rest of its citizens, despite having one ruler the power is held by the commisarians and the generals, Russia is a mixture of both things.

I look towards direct democracy but I know for a fact that it will never happen in my country, every town should decide for its own affairs.
May suggest you to read ODonnells research about this: Democracy, Agency, and the State (2010) most of the times a flawed democracy is still better than no democracy at all as practical tolerance is still better than theological tolerance.