What is fascism and why is it considered the far right?

At the turn of the 18th century, nationalists, conservatives and monarchists sat on the right of the hall while democrats and progressives sat on the left.

Fascism is a nationalist philosophy. They hate the left and the center. The first thing they do is abolish elections and arrest all social democrats and communists. Questioning the Fuhrer or President for life, would be unthinkable. He is like their King, but the office is not hereditary.

Unlike Socialists, they do not nationalize industries but leave them in private hands and direct the owners to produce what they need for their war machine using slave labor.

Fascism is ruling with an iron fist, sometimes with religion at the core and the leader is a dictator. It usually entails nationalism. I will bring to note that Hitler was a fascist, however he was also a socialist which means that fascism, leadership by dictatorship, can occur in both right and left. Mao was a fascist, so was Stalin and Lenin, all leftists.

Watch this video. It is a great video for people who are trying to distinguish between different political structures, terminology and reality.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45apySb26AE

Fascism is a dictatorship country. Definitely NOT far right. Far right is defined as radical conservative and fascism is far left to the point of forcing by violence the people into conforming to government mandates.

Easy way to remember what fascism is is "Corporate controlled, government owned"

Here is a bit more reading on it http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article72...

It's far right because it's what you get when you completely hand over your country to corporations that are completely amoral. Where as Communism would be almost complete government control which is considered left-wing.

It is government control of private industry. It is only considered far right because the Nazi's fought the communists in WWII. These two groups had much in common, but vied for control of the same countries and institutions. Therefore, people tried to inaccurately call them right or left.

It is more accurately described as "statist." Communism also falls into this same category.

When's the last time you saw a rally of 1000 liberals chanting that they wanted to "take our country back"??

When is the last time the right-wing party in this nation voted AGAINST the will of corporations and in favor of the worker???

There you go.

fas·cist

noun

1.

a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.

2.

( often initial capital letter ) a member of a fascist movement or party.

3.

a person who is dictatorial or has extreme right-wing views.

There are elements of fascism and socialism in both far right and far left ideologies.

Stay away from labeling the right or left in the US with those terms.

You are better off referring to liberalism or conservatism.

It's the opposite. Fascism hates capitalism and it is authoritarian. They are for the collective, not the individual.

That's more left than right.

http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-se...

its when business is the government, Like G.E. Ceo in obama's White House, and fascism is only considered to be far right by extremist leftists.

In laymen terms, fascism is simply forcing other people to do what you want them to do, whether that be religious, social, economic, or political, etc systems.