Saturday, October 06, 2018

Mussolini’s Description of Fascism Sounds a Lot Like Antifa | Intellectual Takeout

Mussolini’s Description of Fascism Sounds a Lot Like Antifa | Intellectual Takeout
"One of the fascinating things about the chaotic culture on America’s college campuses is the unlikely bedfellows it is producing. 
Particularly striking are the liberal professors who are speaking out against students agitating for the adoption of illiberal policies, such as political censorship and safe spaces, which curtail free speech...
Martin Neimoller quote
This reference to the Holocaust is ironic since many on college campuses label themselves Antifa in an attempt to demonstrate opposition to the fascists which permeated the Nazis and their allies in the 1940s.
...consider how one of the leading fascists of the World War II-era, Benito Mussolini, described the fascist mentality. 
He said:
“Everything I have said and done in these last years is relativism by intuition. If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth … then there is nothing more relativistic than Fascist attitudes and activity... From the fact that all ideologies are of equal value, that all ideologies are mere fictions, the modern relativist infers that everybody has the right to create for himself his own ideology and to attempt to enforce it with all the energy of which he is capable.”
That description sounds an awful lot like the mentality which permeates today’s campuses and is driving both conservative and liberal professors away. Which should lead us to wonder: 
Is the modern Antifa fight against fascism actually fighting for fascism without realizing it?"

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