tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13622622.post3728475071733946954..comments2023-12-22T08:44:24.389-05:00Comments on threewayfight: On Trump, Fascism, and Stale Social ScienceMatthew N Lyonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664330735255207352noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13622622.post-52100567699618821202015-12-09T10:02:52.310-05:002015-12-09T10:02:52.310-05:00Fascism has received much scholarly attention.
ht...Fascism has received much scholarly attention.<br /><br />http://threewayfight.blogspot.com/p/fascism-means-different-things-to.html<br /><br />http://sdonline.org/47/two-ways-of-looking-at-fascism/<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism<br /><br />https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fascism<br /><br />And here's an itemization of ideas associated with the “far right”:<br /><br />http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Far_right<br /><br />The “far right” is a neologism used by others than those tagged as “far right.”<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neologism<br /><br />The labels “far right” and “fascism” may be used as pejorative political epithets. Some on the “far-right” might resent being labeled with either term.<br /><br />Some few on the far right might be enticed to commit terrorism as they do “reject the legitimacy of the established political system:”<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_terrorism<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_politics_and_violence<br /><br />The United States government, often through the CIA, commits “far right-wing” terrorism. E.g., the U.S. (in Pakistan and Yemen) and Israel (in the West Bank and Gaza) have used targeted murder to kill members of groups such as Al-Qaeda and Hamas. <br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_state-sponsored_terrorism<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_state_terrorism<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeted_killing#Use_by_the_United_States_Government<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_United_States_foreign_regime_change_actions<br /><br />http://jeffsharlet.com/content/about-the-family/<br /><br />The ideas of the left and the “far left” were also historically dangerous.<br /><br />See: The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions http://press.princeton.edu/titles/6786.html<br /><br />Murder with impunity by government is dangerous; all justification for these state crimes may also be dangerous. For “What goes around, comes around.”<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes<br /><br />The defense, articulation, and development of state interests by mass murder is extremely dangerous. The number of untimely deaths of civilians for the Chinese democide (1900-1987) is 77 million, for the Soviet Union (1917 to 1987), 62 million, for Nazi Germany (1933 to 1945), 21 million. <br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democide<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communist_regimes<br /><br />http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE1.HTM<br /><br />War and war mongering by the state is obviously also extremely dangerous:<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties<br /><br />Given the freedom of speech, political freedom, and democracy in the U.S., how can the U.S. become more friendly, more peaceful, more accepting, more tolerant, both at home and abroad? What ideas, if any, should be banished as anathema?<br /><br />That brings us back to the 2016 U.S. presidential candidate, Donald Trump.<br /><br />Assuming that “Trump's demagogic hate-mongering is deeply rooted in mainstream U.S. politics,”<br /><br />given that the U.S. has stockpiled weapons of mass destruction that could kill millions of innocent non-combatants (including woman, children, and seniors),<br /><br />given that residents in the U.S.A. have easy access to many guns,<br /><br />assuming that documented global warming and climate change is caused by humans, and is going to make a huge difference to the quality of life in the future,<br /><br />assuming that lone wolves and small (“far right-wing” & Islamic fundamentalist) groups are a cause of terror of great concern,<br /><br />the question then is: who among the 2016 U.S. presidential candidates would make the better U.S. president for 2017-2020? Voters in the U.S. will decide.<br /><br />http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/06/04/a-minority-of-americans-own-guns-but-just-how-many-is-unclear/<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic_numbing#Nuclear_denial_disorder<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_fundamentalismBernardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13622622.post-17176714545435035382015-11-29T23:49:16.185-05:002015-11-29T23:49:16.185-05:00Is 2016 Presidential candidate Donald Trump like P...Is 2016 Presidential candidate Donald Trump like President Andrew Jackson (Presidential term: March 4, 1829 – March 4, 1837)?<br /><br />Slavery and forced migration presumably had some popular support in the U.S. in the 1820's & 1830's. U.S. President Andrew Jackson owned up to 300 slaves in his lifetime and “ethnically cleansed” the SE part of the U.S. of its indigenous (American Indian) population. Jackson's violent politics incorporated support for slavery (of the black minority) with his leadership for forced migration and genocide (of the aboriginal Indian minority). Jackson was responsible for the deaths of thousands of Native Americans.<br /><br />https://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/newt-gingrich-andrew-jackson-the-metaphysics-of-neoindian-hating/<br /><br />http://peoplesworld.org/american-indians-oppose-glorification-of-andrew-jackson/<br /><br />Is America today still open to electing a president like Andrew Jackson?<br /><br />https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/07/08/donald-trumps-false-comments-connecting-mexican-immigrants-and-crime/<br /><br />http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/trump-close-mosques-216008<br /><br />http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/11/donald-trump-a-fascist.html<br /><br /><br />On a completely different matter:<br /><br />How to create a world, a Middle East, and an America that is less receptive to fascism in its leaders?<br /><br />Austrian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Dr. Wilhelm Reich, (1933) linked sexual repression to fascism. He suggested that some form of what is today called “fascism” has existed, under other names, in every civilization.<br /><br />“The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, for example, becomes brutal sadism which then is an essential mass-psychological factor in imperialistic wars.”<br />-Wilhelm Reich The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933) Ch. 1 : Ideology As Material Power, Section 4 : The Social Function of Sexual Suppression.<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mass_Psychology_of_Fascism<br /><br />Science could test whether widespread sexual repression in any culture psycho-dynamically fuels widespread cultural receptivity to fascism and fires acceptance of the political violence like that of Andrew Jackson.<br /><br />The links below shed light on various forms of culturally-sanctioned sexual repression. Some cultures use violent practices such as female genital mutilation, honor killings, and stoning to regulate sexual behavior. The rational & moral justification for these violent practices on a wide scale might be reexamined and civilly discussed by citizens of the world. Cultural imperialism is wrong, but we have a right to protect ourselves from the violence of these practices.<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_repression<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoning<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_against_LGBT_people<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy_law<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_marriage<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_on_female_genital_mutilation<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_masturbation<br /><br />Find below 3 links to the ideas of Dr. James Prescott. Prescott's idea about body pleasure and the origins of violence compliments the above quote from Wilhelm Reich. How can Prescott's research be used to reduce violence in a culture, in a region?<br /><br />https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_W._Prescott<br /><br />http://www.violence.de/prescott/bulletin/article.html<br /><br />http://www.violence.de/prescott/dvd/Cosmos.pdfBernardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13622622.post-31593759382432567242015-11-06T09:34:54.376-05:002015-11-06T09:34:54.376-05:00We agree, Matt, and I appreciate you digging throu...We agree, Matt, and I appreciate you digging through this stuff to find clarity and deeper analytical explanations.Chipsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11576332097091474513noreply@blogger.com