Is fascism on the rise? Does anyone really know what "fascism" even means? Matt Kibbe looks at the history of this deadly -ism, and takes on the modern nationalist movements gaining influence across the world.
Tag - communism
The worst tragedies in human history have come about because one person thought he could know enough to make plans for everyone else. It turns out that none of us knows as much as all of us. Matt Kibbe breaks it down in The Deadly Isms, Episode 4.
Sometimes you have to feel sorry for Herr Hitler. The Fuhrer got a terrible rep as a genocidal tyrant but in terms of 20th century murderous tyrants he is—at best—in the top 3. The same in fact goes for things like ecological and economic mismanagement. Fascism a.k.a. National...
It's the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, when Lenin would implement the purest form of Marxism ever conceived with predictably bloody consequences.
It's the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara. Today he's memorialized on T-shirts and posters, but how many people remember that he was actually a brutal killer?
Contrary to popular belief, the political spectrum doesn't go from left to right, it goes from top to bottom. At the bottom are all the authoritarian forms of government, including fascism, socialism, and communism. As we move upwards, we approach liberty, voluntary cooperation, and...
In the early 1970s, the Soviet Union decided it was time to start producing electric guitars. Better late than never, I guess.
On the far right you have fascism, and on the far left you have socialism. What's really the difference?
Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong-il = 100 MILLION people killed by socialism.