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George Orwell wrote that the term "Fascist" had already been so overused as a political epithet even by the end of the 1940s that it had lost any real presumptive connection to the actual ideology.

When they start using fascist and nazi interchangeably, you immediately know they have no clue what either ideology is short of a cursory knowledge.

"Oh? You don't want to support the 'Anti-Bad-Guy Squad'? You must one of those Bad-Guys™️!"

Stalin called social democrats fascist, this is something i cannot comprehend.

"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser."

I like how this dude managed to explain what Free Speech is better than """educated""" academics using the example of French people eating frogs

They labeled their opponents as fascist, but act like fascists themselves

Fascism is socialism with an iron fist. Giovanni Gentile, the founder of fascism, was a socialist. His philosophical basis for fascism was rooted in his understanding of ontology and epistemology, in which he found vindication for the rejection of individualism, and acceptance of collectivism, with the state as the ultimate location of authority and loyalty outside of which individuality had no meaning (and which in turn helped justify the totalitarian dimension of fascism). Ultimately, Gentile foresaw a social order wherein opposites of all kinds weren't to be considered as existing independently from each other; that “publicness” and “privateness” as broad interpretations were currently false as imposed by all former kinds of government, including capitalism and communism; and that only the reciprocal totalitarian state of corporatism, a fascist state, could defeat these problems which are made from reifying as an external reality that which is in fact, to Gentile, only a reality in thinking. Whereas it was common in the philosophy of the time to see the conditional subject as abstract and the object as concrete, Gentile postulated (after Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel) the opposite, that the subject is concrete and the object a mere abstraction (or rather, that what was conventionally dubbed "subject" is in fact only conditional object, and that the true subject is the act of being or essence of the object). Gentile went so far as to declare “Fascism is a form of socialism, in fact, it is its most viable form.” One of the most common reflections on this is that fascism is itself socialism based on national identity. Benito Mussolini, the leader of Italian fascism, was a member of the Italian Socialist Party as he was a publisher of Socialist Newspapers and was a life-long socialist and a student of Marx, but after he was kicked out of the Party since he believed World War One could result in the creation of Socialist uprisings across Europe. But Mussolini was so familiar with Marxist literature that in his own writings he would not only quote from well-known Marxist works but also from the relatively obscure works. During this period Mussolini considered himself an "authoritarian communist" and a Marxist and he described Karl Marx as "the greatest of all theorists of socialism." He made union membership mandatory. Under this labour policy, Fascist Italy enacted laws to make union membership compulsory for all workers. He also spent government money like a leftist. Mussolini’s spending on the public sector, schools and infrastructure was considered extravagant. Mussolini "instituted a programme of public works hitherto unrivaled in modern Europe. Bridges, canals and roads were built, hospitals and schools, railway stations and orphanages; swamps were drained and land reclaimed, forests were planted and universities were endowed". As for the scope and spending on social welfare programs, Italian fascism "compared favorably with the more advanced European nations and in some respect was more progressive". He built a large and expansive welfare state. By 1925, the Fascist government had "embarked upon an elaborate program" that included food supplementary assistance, infant care, maternity assistance, general healthcare, wage supplements, paid vacations, unemployment benefits, illness insurance, occupational disease insurance, general family assistance, public housing and old age and disability insurance. Most of the economy owned by the state. By 1939, Fascist Italy attained the highest rate of state ownership of an economy in the world other than the Soviet Union. When New York city politician Grover Aloysius Whalen asked Mussolini about the meaning behind Italian fascism in 1939, the reply was: "It is like your New Deal!" During the 1919 elections, the Fascists had attempted to court the socialist-left while publicly dubbing himself the “Lenin of Italy”, attempting to “out-socialist the socialists”. Mussolini was clearly a leftist, and fascism is just another variety of socialism with a nationalist bent.

I can answer the title's question way quicker. Labelling someone a facist does worse than dehumanize. It labels the other as anti-human. When you label the other person as anti-human, it renders all of their opinions evil. If someone is completely evil and everything they can possibly say is evil, you win every argument by default, if said argument is ethical.

"Accuse your enemy of doing exactly what you are doing" - Saul Alinskys "RULES FOR RADICALS"

When you label yourself as "not fascist" and your opposition as "facist" it absolves the individual of moral quandary they may have when engaging in fascistic behavior on behalf of the "not facists."

I convinced my girlfriend's 7 year old daughter that there was no boogie man in her closet Cannot convince a twenty-something year old leftard the same...yet they are allowed to vote Glad I ETS'd when I did. Would never want to risk my life for the filfth in this country...after 12 years Army Infantry

During the Red Scare, the people accused of communism were actually communist. Almost none of the people being accused of Fascism are remotely Fascist.

Because it reads like a social clearance card to them: the more they can dehumanize the opposition, the less they have to listen, and the more those around them can raise their haunches and agitate themselves into zeal.

Calling people on the right fascist is often a fallacy called forestalling disagreement.

If someone calls you Fascist, you can bet that you are smarter than them without doubt

During the Spanish Civil War, you had the Republican camp branding anyone who didn't toe the line a "fascist" or "agent of Franco." When you've convinced yourself that you're the paragon of moral righteousness and anti-Fascist action, then you will divide everyone in the world into either a loyal comrade or a far-right villain.

short answer: they want to confuse the meaning, hoping that YOU won't realize that THEY are the fascists.

Hitler wore a tie. Trump wears a tie. Coincidence? I think not!

As a shorter answer: It's a matter of projection and discrediting political opposition. Most Leftists will not admit it, but Fascism and Nazism are both socialist ideologies related intrinsically to their sense of populist, collectivist mentality. When a Leftist calls you a fascist or Nazi, they are doing so in an attempt to distance their actions - which can be comparable or similar to that of dictatorship thuggery and intimidation as used by the real fascists and Nazis - from that of the people that, under normal circumstances, they would likely have voted for. Further, as another commenter pointed out, it simultaneously labels and discredits any reputable argument against what they're doing as "anti-human"; how can one argue against being labeled as anti-human for not agreeing with a popularly-believed concept/pov?

A bit of a correction: MaCarthy was responsible for holding inquires regarding communist infiltration in the senate and armed forces specifically. The House Un-American Activities Committee, the other half of this equation, was something he was uninvolved in on account of him being a Senator, and thus being subject to separation of powers and having zero authority to do anything with the House of Representatives. The fact that we call it MaCarthyism and blame so much of it on him when the biggest invasions of private life came at the hands of completely different people is a testament to the exceptional levels of propaganda people have been subjected to.

Its kinda sad honestly. In college I was in a conservative political club and our college had a communist club and they came up to us while we were tabling trying to get new members and some communist club members came up to us and screamed at us saying “how can you live with yourselves fascists?”. It’s like they’ve been in blinders and we’re trying to tell them that they can take them off because there’s more to the world but it’s as if they’ve had them for so long that they find comfort in them

Reminds me of when breadtube kept trying to push the message of "Right Libertarians are fascists"

"Do you hate fascists?" "Yes!" "Would you want the government to have total control over everything so it would be easier to identify and eliminate anyone that is defined to be a fascist?" "Absolutely!"

As a teenager growing up in the UK I watched the popular TV show, The Young Ones, a comedy about four students living in a shared house. One of them was Rick, a selfish and pompous radical. The humour of his character is he is constantly (and hilariously) revealed as a petty-minded hypocrite, often by his own words and action, and whenever he is found out, he ALWAYS resorts to calling someone a fascist. It was fall-off-your-chair funny, to the extent the character of Rick entered the public's consciousness as a found-out stereotype of a young, left-wing idiot, so much I honestly thought the insult 'fascist' would be gone forever. However, after the emergence of Trump as political force it came back into popular use. It was so patently silly; I couldn't believe they were actually serious. My belief is labelling their opponents and 'othering' them is a characteristic of the left. If it wasn't 'fascist' (or Nazi) it would be some other epithet. The word (or ideological slur) itself isn't important - the purpose is to shame people into either supporting or, at least, not resisting their political movement. Progressives always claim their motivations are to help and uplift others, but you only need to look at the history of the left to see they are motivated by wealth-envy and, at-heart, a mean-spirited prejudice. The left ALWAYS pick a target group and direct their hate at it. Initially, it was the bourgeoise. Then for the longest time it was the comfortable, managerial middle-class. But when they switched their ideology from an economical perspective to an identitarian one, they directed their hate (because that's what it is) towards the white working-class, which is where we are now. Leftism as a political movement is not only the most destructive and hateful force in the history of man, it is also the most fundamentally dishonest and gaslighting movement in history of mankind. And if you don't agree with me, you're a fascist! (lol jk ;D)

Like you mentioned in your "Why the German Empire is so demonised" video, many Neo-Nazis and Neo-fascists use monarchist and conservative symbols when fascist symbols are banned. People on the left see that fascists use these symbols and when they see conservatives/monarchists/Right-wingers use the same symbols they think they hold the same beliefs as the fascists.

It's cuz they always have their projectors on hand 😂😂 they love to label their opponents exactly what they themselves are

McCarthy wasn’t wrong. Everything he said was going to happen, happened exactly as he said. Where do you think Gentile got his ideas from?

Bro, time has proven McCarthy correct.

I am horribly disappointed that you did not put an Alex Jones screaming about chemicals in between the frog discussing Ben Shapiros. Truly, that is the letdown of the century, if not the millennium

Ever since I started studying intellectual history and political theory, especially Communism, Scientism, Facsism, and Nazism, I learned just how important free speech is to true intellectualism. The free flow of ideas is the most important aspect of a free society.

Propaganda 101 If you tell a lie often enough people will start to believe it to be the truth.

Projection. Call your opponent fascist enough, and you can turn the full weight of the justice system against them. You can censor them all you want and call for violence against them.

McCarthy unfortunately, was not able to write his own story. He did in fact find that there were communist in the Federal government, but Roosevelt and Truman hit it to win the war. It had disastrous effects to the country as communist were able to begin the Long March through the Institutions unabated when resistance was highest.

As a fascist myself, I’m offended that people like trump get called fascist. It’s an insult to the entire ideology!

I'm absolutely not "right wing" but you can guarantee a leftist would call me a fascist because when they say some asinine shit i would call it out

If a person really thinks there is only fascism and anti-fascism, it means he knows nothing about (or ignores) the entire history of political ideas prior to my great-grandfather.

Because they know that if they stop using that card, their lies would be completely demolished in the row of days

It’s funny because due to libertarians not knowing what corporatism means in 20th century Italy, they too adopt this very tactic

i was a centrist moved to the right when the left started sounding like certain ppl in germany with their beliefs. My grandad was german and stories he told sound just like the current left. He escaped to America during that world war. Been called a fascist so often it lost its sting and say ah you ran out of things to try and change my view. So i win.

This video remind of a quote from a hallucination of a broken and deluded soldier from a video game franchise: "You needed someone to blame. So you cast it on me: a dead man."

They call everyone fascist because their positions and beliefs are indefensible, so they result to calling everyone a fascist in an effort to label their opponents as pure evil and therefore wrong no matter what the argument is. Too bad for them I don’t consider being called a fascist an insult.

Well, without watching yet, I'd say because they usually call the name that most accurately describes themselves.

Nietzsche wrote: "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster." It was the same with the Nazis too. They saw their enemies as an existential threat and felt that they had to win by any means necessary so... so they thought they needed to fight fire with fire and thus they became not that different what they originally set out to destroy. Many other modern movements too exhibit this same perennial pattern, yes.

The most ironic thing of all (at least in the US) Anti-Fa is fully supported by the establishment, which could legitimately be argued is corporate fascism. The average working class Trump voter isn't who they should be fighting.

This is just one of the tactics encouraged by Saul Alinsky in his book, Rules for Radicals.

Because they’re afraid of the only ideology that actually fought them

Once had a "conversation" with someone who called someone a fascist. I think it's funny how the definition adds to it they have to be a conservative to be fascist. But then people say that every conservative is a fascist, wouldn't that make the word not needed? IF fascist=every conservative ever, then it is essentially an oxymoron. But when I point out to someone that there are plenty of progressives that practice fascism. The answer I would get mostly is that they are indeed not progressives, but actually conservative. As all politicians nowadays are more conservative than could be progressive. But how does that not make the term even less useful in describing anyone?

The funny part about it is that fascism is more left wing ideology than right wing. It’s pretty much much syndicalism but the international aspect is dropped.

I used to watch Communists KZfaqrs like Caleb Maupin and it’s true that they called Soc-Dems Fascists or Social Fascists. They really don’t like Soc-Dems. Something to do with the fact that The German Soc-Dems betrayed Rosa Luxembourg.

AfD thing always gets me My cousin is darker than the average swahili and an active AfD member I wish AfD was as radical as people said

I used to think it was ignorence and panic. I've discovered it's malice.

Uncle Ted and KGB Yuri were right about submissive and oversocialize with emotion.

What's interesting to me is that we are taught that fascism and communism are bad but we aren't taught what they actually are.

The short answer is that they always accuse their opponents of what they, themselves are doing.

Accuse your enemy with what you're doing. It's simple psychology

To quote Obi-Wan:" You became the very thing you swear to opposed."

Joseph McCarthy's biggest flaw was never going far enough and finishing what he started.

Leftists are not called Fascist. Because we don't call our people Fascist. South Park.

7:47 Young people nowadays don't even know what fascism is, let alone communism, but they love to throw those words around like gospel

Fascist is left wing. It is Marx derived and term is specific to Italian breakaway Marxists from Russian influence to a local Italian focus, hence National socialism. Germans were similar, but threw in weird and utterly dysfunctional ideas about science, biology (race) and religion.

Back in the 1980's, when Reagan was unfettering corporate power, rattling the saber, and buying every weapon system imaginable, my friends and I called Republicans "fascists." Mussolini describe his Fascism as the convergence of corporate and government power, and with the militaristic nature of the Reagan Administration, it met my understanding of the definition of fascism. That was over 40 years ago. Now, the Democrats are looking more and more like the party in Orwell's book.

Its specifically called the poisoning the well fallacy

Simple gaslighting. Accuse your opponent of what you're guilty of.

Even if the execution left something to be desired, McCarthy was right. We’re paying for it now.

Even if I consider myself semi-left I am still a staunch believer in conservatism due to my conservative background. Tradition and religions are very much important in any nation for it keep everything in balance.

As a former communist I never used the fascist move

The word 'fascist' is slowling losing it's meaning the more they use and repeat it.

Real reason: Slander Reason why "Fascist" in specifics: Because their ideologues are similar because both of them are socialist and one of them (fascism) was born out of national communism. I see the hatred between communists and fascists as the same with Sunni and Shia, Democrats and Republicans, and even Jews and Arabs. I think it is because the thought of heresy is much worse than merely coming from a fundamentally different viewpoint.

The Red Scare was justified and Joseph McCarthy was an American hero.

If wanting secure borders and a well-armed citizenry makes me a fascist, well then call me mussolini

As an actual fascist this is hilarious.

To me it ultimately boils down to "You're either with us or against us".

After what happened to Andy Ngo in Portland, fascism doesn’t sound so bad anymore.

They call them that the same reason black people used to call others racist when they didn't get their way (some still do that)

Because they don’t know what else to say since their vocabularies are very small.

They do the same thing with the terms “racist”, “homophobic”, “transphobic”, etc.

Accuse your enemy of doing what you're doing. It's as simple as that.

I maintain one of the greatest tragedies of the late 20th century is that communism wasn't given the same treatment national socialism has been given.

Great video. Interesting, informative and thoughtful. Thank you for your hard work on this project.

The descendants of the French in southern Louisiana do eat frogs, I've done it with them.

Ironic that McCarthy turned out to be correct.

It makes them feel superior intellectually and morally. Of course 99% don’t know the first thing about fascism as a political ideology

My family is very toxic and I had a falling out with them for different reasons. They were very anti trump and any questioning from my mouth was met with insults, narcissism, and degrading comments on my intelligence. Whole family fell apart because of political views. I was part of the hive mind to fit in a while until one day my family started accusing my cousin of possibly wanted to shoot up his school. He was 13 at the time and never had a evil bone. They accused him of wanting to do so all because they found out he watched different right wing figures on KZfaq. He had some bad thoughts on women from these individuals admittedly but he never had any life threatening views. Who hasn’t had a dumb opinion when young? This is when I snapped away and realized they could be this irrational about anyone even me and i disassociated from them until I found a way out.

As a former leftist, I increasingly feel that the left can sometimes be as fascist as the right. Let's not forget, Mussolini was a former leftist himself.

Because thats what commies do.

The "good guys": "The good guys won the war"

Woah I just watched a handful of your videos this night and this banger of a video just drops.

Mussolini was left wing. And hitler self identifies as a national socialist. “The Italian term fascismo is derived from fascio, meaning 'bundle of sticks', ultimately from the Latin word fasces. This was the name given to political organizations in Italy known as fasci, groups similar to guilds or syndicates.”

I'm honestly almost at the point of taking a page out of the queer playbook, and wearing the label with PRIDE!!!

For the most part, Mccarthy was right

Exactly what happened to me when I have an argument to a leftist in IG. Since he/she has no proper argument, instead attacking me on my personal life and my profession. 😂😅

I can't talk to anyone because they keep telling me "it's your definition" while I'm sharing Cambridge's dictionary.

Correction on the 3 lines, it wasn't the longest line, it was which line matched the length of the other displayed line on the other table

I think of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals: #5 Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. #8 Keep pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose. #13 Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. I'm sure there are other rules that apply, but these are tactics Saul Alinsky shared with his followers. They call their opponents 'fascists', they are doing it to attack a movement, not to give an honest discussion. It's a form of bullying someone rather than having an honest discussion.

McCarthy was actually correct in most assertions but never pointed anyone specifically out in public due to lack of evidence but he is primarily vindicated through history of his private suspicions, though not card carrying communists they (the suspected) did siphon intelligence to the USSR or were financially backed by the USSR in cultural works. The McCarthy trials were not intended for just communist's and at first were against fascists started not by McCarthy but was focused on due to his easier to target. McCarthy attacked those in the Army getting the establishment against him in his blatant incompetency, and due to his anti communist stance our media has vilified him. From the dress tailor of queen Elizabeth to any grant funded scientific team in the US the USSR had their hands in there, he's just an easy target which was one instance of blatant belligerence which is blanketing all the anti communism of the era. McCarthy did one trial and fucked up once and the left never forgot and blamed the red scare on him from beginning to end. They were found and purged not by the right but other leftist's and trade unionist in all sections of society and they were ran out by mostly other communists not soviet aligned.

While I assume this video was done in good faith, the creator clearly doesn't know what the Red Scare actually was: 1. Americans knew exactly what they meant by using the term "Communist": acolytes of Karl Marx's Political Philosophy of Communism:, defined as the political positions of Abolition of Property, Seizure of Means of Production Either Through Violent or Infiltrative Revolution of the Government, and Totalizing Collectivization of Power Over the Economy through the Government. The term especially applied those allied with the Soviet Empire and seeking to support/advance/incorporate the US and the rest of the world into it. 2. The term Mccarthyism is at best an ad hominem against Joseph McCarthy, since as a senator he was focused on Soviet spy infiltration into the US government and military. The House Unamerican Activities Committee, the body that interrogated people accused of being a communist and which people think of when the word McCarthyism is brought up, was led by Democrat Roy Brewer, an American labor union representative and anti-communist activist who saw communists try to take over various labor unions in the US. Senator Joseph McCarthy could not serve in the *HOUSE* of Representatives, from which the HUAC took its name. 3. There were actual communists identified by the HUAC through interviews identifying members of the Communist Party USA, and that party *was* directly funded and supported by the Soviet Union and money the Soviets sent to the US. In fact, so much money was poured by the Soviets into just the Hollywood side of the communist movement that it equaled what the average congressional candidates spends on campaign ads ever election cycle, except they did it every year on the year for over 60 years.

Because if you label EVERYONE else as fascist you'll let your party do whatever they want whilst ignoring your party is in fact fascist

As Sir Winston Churchill said, " The fascist of the future will call themselves the anti fascist. "