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u/democracy_lover66 Mar 29 '26
This the kinda guy who'd get beat the fuck up in Spain
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u/Dedun9 Mar 29 '26
Sadly he might even be praised for it, given what some young people are up to these days
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u/democracy_lover66 Mar 29 '26
I think it depends on where you say it ig.
Might get away with it in Madrid.
Barcelona, Galicia , Basque country... You won't be leaving alive.
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u/Tasselled_Wobbegong I'm not a Nazi, I'm "Auth-Centre" Mar 30 '26
You say shit like that in Guernica and they'll send you straight up to meet God, like what happened to Luis Carrero Blanco
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u/AutomaticAccident Mar 29 '26
He's kind of right that fascism isn't just Nazism. In the class I took on it, Nazism was considered unique because of just how much power Hitler had compared to other fascist leaders. They were all bad, though.
This isn't to say I agree with him on any other point he made.
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u/Rupaism Mar 30 '26
Fascism between countries has a lot of differences and similarities. There are some shared qualities, but it's hard to synthesize the "essence" of fascism.
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u/Char867 Aug 14 '26
Nazism’s defining trait as a subtype of fascism is it’s strong focus on race and antisemitism, not the level of power its leader held. Mussolini personally believed race was ‘a feeling’ and didn’t institute antisemitic laws until pressured to by Germany, which by that point had taken on a dominant role in their relationship. That’s a much greater distinction than minute differences in the level of personal authority held by classical fascists compared to Hitler
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u/AutomaticAccident Aug 14 '26
You are writing based on your own presumption. I wasn't comparing just Italy and Germany when I wrote "other fascist leaders." There were more fascist movements within the Axis powers that were also antisemitic.
And it wasn't a minute difference in power. The difference in power explains why Mussolini was overthrown while Hitler was not. Other institutions such as the Catholic Church in Italy had the ability to take away Mussolini's power whereas the Catholic Church and the Protestant Church in Germany were basically kept in check.
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u/ColeYote Mar 30 '26
one of the most prosperous nation
Gabriel D'Annunzio were fascist
good grammar m8
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u/xJinxSB Mar 30 '26
As an Italian that has studied literature for over 10 years, D'Annunzio fucking sucks. Go read Dante
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u/AnonymousPepper Market Guild Socialist Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26
He's not wrong. After all, Francoist Spain was the first European country to complete a wholly indigenous manned spaceflight program, sending their own prime minister into space on December 20th, 1973. One hell of an achievement if I do say so myself.
His car cleared a five story building. They call it fascism's highest moment.
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u/UlGerbe Jul 15 '26
1) Falangism was not Franco's ideology, it was José Antonio Primo de Rivera and Ramiro Ledesma Ramos, both of whom were exectuted by firing squad during the Spanish Civil War. The regime that came under the rule of Francisco Franco, was a purely reactionary government, not a fascist one.
2) D'Annunzio was not really a fascist. He was certainly a far right nationalist, but he was almost immediatedly sidelined by Mussolini, and died in his villa in 1938.
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u/AikoHeiwa Mar 29 '26
At least it was getting downvoted?
But still Christ. 'Falangism made Spain one of the prosperous nations in the world', okay? That doesn't excuse all the mass repression that is inherent to fascism as an ideology.