tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post1522718823906801594..comments2024-02-26T09:30:54.111-06:00Comments on Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!: Anti-realism = FascismFr. Philip Powell, OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-56450123958749837932012-12-22T13:56:59.278-06:002012-12-22T13:56:59.278-06:00DrAndro, I'm using "fascism" to mean...DrAndro, I'm using "fascism" to mean something like "a political philosophy that espouses the total ownership of society by the State; i.e., industry, banking, trade, education, etc." Fascism is a left-wing philosophy despite the best efforts of the media/academia to convince us that it's right-wing. <br /><br />from Wiki: "Fascism recognizes the occurrence of class conflict, and advocates a resolution to end the division of classes within a nation and secure national solidarity. However fascism publicly favours proletarian culture while it rejects bourgeois culture, and claims that cultural nationalization of society emancipates the nation's proletariat, and promotes the assimilation of all classes into a proletarian nation.<br /><br />Fascism advocates a state-controlled and regulated mixed economy; the principal economic goal of fascism is to achieve autarky to secure national self-sufficiency and independence, through protectionist and interventionist economic policies. It promotes regulated private enterprise and private property contingent whenever beneficial to the nation and state enterprise and state property whenever necessary to protect its interests."Fr. Philip Powell, OPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-30311450234888774502012-12-22T12:07:55.038-06:002012-12-22T12:07:55.038-06:00The definition of fascism is debated, as you likel...The definition of fascism is debated, as you likely know, and I assume you are using it in a loose popular sense, as people often use "schizophrenic" to mean "split-personality" or, my favorite, "literally" to mean "figuratively."<br /><br />Fascism, IMHO, as rough as it is, is not the worst of systems. After all, Franco's fascism kept Spain from the far worse totalitarianism of Marx. Fascism has a higher reality-content than Marxism; it overexpands the State but it recognizes the bonds of blood and culture and the limits of nature far better than the overweening anti-realist utopianism of the proletarian dictators. Most Americans don't know it, but those Roman fasces you have there preside over the House of Representatives, on the wall behind the Speaker.<br /><br />Totalitarianism is what I would suggest you are really aiming at in your post, Father. And as you say, of the Marxist kind. I despise Marxism so much that lumping it with fascism felt a bit like a slur! Hate speech! LOL.<br /><br />OreamnosAmericanushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15602268350813211243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-41356676708130995882012-12-21T16:13:02.060-06:002012-12-21T16:13:02.060-06:00Like totally.Like totally.Fr. Philip Powell, OPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-44708644385226553592012-12-21T15:07:42.127-06:002012-12-21T15:07:42.127-06:00Hey, watch who you're calling phallo-centric! ...Hey, watch who you're calling phallo-centric! :-) Except for that, yeah, you caught me - I just live for the privileging of absolutist binaries. Shellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05485793986602894527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-43367468211967346882012-12-21T14:07:56.127-06:002012-12-21T14:07:56.127-06:00Logic!? How completely logo/phallo/occidental-cen...Logic!? How completely logo/phallo/occidental-centric of you. Logic is just a way that capitalists and Christianists attempt to marginalize difference through the privileging of absolutist binaries (either/or, right/wrong) and subsume that privilege under the militaristic and stultifying rubrics of "reality" and the rhetoric of "truth."<br /><br />Geez, how bourgeois! Fr. Philip Powell, OPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-45693882333997799052012-12-21T13:58:56.589-06:002012-12-21T13:58:56.589-06:00Nice step-by-step summary - much appreciated.
(ra...Nice step-by-step summary - much appreciated.<br /><br />(rant beginneth)Ah, yes...my Cultural Betters. Those with whom I cannot hold a conversation because I am utterly confused - we use the same "words", but they seem to have vastly differing meanings, and those meanings can change from one person to the next. I'm sorry, just because you've arbitrarily changed the "meaning" of something, that doesn't mean that you've actually changed what it IS!<br /><br />"What I believe (feel) is 'my reality'.<br />'My Reality' is true/real.<br />Therefore, what I believe (feel) is true/real." <br /><br />!?!?...and I so often accuse people of needing to take a course in Logic... ;-). (rant endeth) Shellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05485793986602894527noreply@blogger.com