Any subscriber can post a story. This is not a "permanent header".

The purpose of the post was to provide a reminder that tyrants often come to bad ends. I think that is very relevant to today's world.

You seem like an angry person, which is understandable, but your anger is being misdirected.

If you have nothing to say other than to try to start a fight with your first post on this platform then you're not particularly welcome here. I suggest you go somewhere else to insult people.

Bugga! Another joint that "enter" does not shift to a new line but finishes and posts the comment. Some of us old blokes are baffled by typewriter inconsistencies. I will contend that the likes of Fascism, Naziism, Communism and many more socio-political "isms" are but shades of the explosion of arcane and esoteric "illuminations" peddled by all sorts of competing cultists of the 19th and 20th centuries. Just about everyone who thought themselves "enlightened and aloof" from the grubby, ordinary people because of the "insights" gained in the dingy rooms of spiritualism, theosophy, oriental studies, primordial "Traditional" wisdom etc. etc. that morphed into the all encompassing "New Ageism" of the mid C20 imbibed the diabolically narcissistic idea that they should run the show to save the World from the scourge of despicable humans. Anyhow, I'll get into a more particular criticism of the likes of Mme Blavatsky, Rene Guenon, Ananda Coomeraswamy, and many others if there is any interest or opposition.

Orrite, Winston, I have no tolerance or respect for blardy snowflakes who cannot bear to be challenged outside of their comfort zone. I'll have another go at posting another "story" and see what happens.

Sounds interesting. I'm familiar with those names. I don't think those writers had any influence on the current zeitgeist, which is informed by Marxist critical theory. The writers you mentioned were not peddlers of identity politics.

Agreed, Madame Blavatsky was some form of scammer, however. The others were pretty solid, and you forgot to mention Aldous Huxley who popularised the idea of a "great tradition" which embraces many religions.

Haha - your joking right? He invented the term "fascist". It was his brand. The word was used proudly by his followers until the end of the war.

Here is a famous quote by Mussonlini which exposes that he was one of the first globalists.

"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."

https://roanoke.com/news/local/quote-of-the-day-be…

Whatever he did, pales in comparison to what our corporate rulers do to us.

I genuinely have never looked at the history of Mussolini.

But what I was hoping to get at, was a history lesson showcasing precisely what Fascism is. And then show it to the general public and see if they can recognise any similarities between Mussolini and what their "leaders" are doing and at the same time ask them to point out which policies Trump was focused on which make him a Fascist, by very historical definition of the word.

Well Mussolini is very interesting, and worth looking into. He saw himself as reinventing an ancient model of society along the lines of the Roman Empire. Hitler was fascinated by this, and created his own version of that, with reference to Germanic folk history. Hitler was inspired by Mussolini, but his reinvented civilisation was more efficient than that of "Il Duce" possibly due to the more motivated and efficient nature of German society.

This was a period in history when many intellectuals were obsessed with rediscovering the cultural roots of modern societies, and there was a belief among many that European societies ought to return to their "true nature". This went along with racialist ideologies which were tied to the Eugenics movement which was very popular all over the western world, including the United States.

The Fascists in Italy did not take all this to it's logical extreme as they did in Germany. They were pretty soft on jews right up till 1944 when the Germans more or less took over.

The famous quote about Mussolini is that he "made the trains run on time". He was a law and order guy who helped the oligarchy retain power and fend off the Communists - playing a similar to role to Hitler. Franco in Spain also jumped on the band wagon and invented his own form of Spanish Fascism.

In retrospect we tend to think that fascists were always seen as the enemies of the West, but it isn't so. Hitler was extremely popular all over the world. He hosted the Olympic games in 1936. He was on the cover of Time Magazine. Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy looked like economic miracles.

But all the while, behind the scenes, these regimes were ruthlessly eliminating their opponents. They murdered anyone who posed a serious threat, and imprisoned thousands who did not go along with their absolutist political ideologies.

The Russians under Stalin were doing the same thing, and it all came to a head in Spain where the Loyalists, supported by Stalin, went to war with the Fascists supported by Hitler and Mussolini.

I recommend reading Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" - it's an amazing exposition which coldly analyses the complete moral failure of both sides in that conflict.