If you read any libertoid weblogs, sooner or later you’ll run into references to the totally ficticious political philosophy called “Transnational Progressivism”, sometimes abbreviated to “Tranzi”. Sometimes I wonder if the right wing of the blogosphere believes in an equally ficticious ideology I like to call “Anarcho-Fascism”. While I recognise that Libertarianism and Fascism are totally opposite ideologies, at least in theory, when you boil both down to their basest instincts, they have quite a lot in common: worship of brute power, contempt for the poor and/or weak, fetishisation of violence, and a belief that some sections of society have so little value their lives are expendable.
Every so often, somebody reads Robert Heinlein’s ugly “Starship Troopers” one time too many, and vomits up an anarcho-fascist manfesto. Read the whole thing if you’ve got the stomach for it, but these quotes give you the flavour.
However, while education was generally a for-profit business (some institutions, mostly religious, political, or military in character were charities) no student was denied an education based on their parent’s inability to pay. However, the names of any parent forced to rely upon the public treasury to school their children were published in newspapers and online.
Naturally, many of those known to be living off of the taxpayers were prone to be challenged in duels. Dueling, a practice almost forgotten, was reintroduced in the third decade of the 21st Century, initially in inner-cities.
If you didn’t think that was fascist enough, then:
One could be challenged to a duel for any reason- and could refuse a challenge. However, a general prejudice had developed that any man who refused a duel was a probable homosexual and, therefore, refusals were generally rare and those who refused often fled. As a result people in the 22nd Century had generally learned not to insult hot-headed individuals
One hopes that America doesn’t harbour that many people that hold such beliefs. In the nightmare scenario when such people gain control of the USA, we’d better hope that those Transnational Progressives of France have enough nuclear warheads to take them out in a surprise first strike.
(Link from Atrios)
anarcho-fascism is the way of the future. it is the only way for humanity to assure themselves of the freedom they deserve, while protecting all of the citizenry, fauna, flora and mother earth.
anarcho-fascism is the future and the future is here. we will all still have our freedom, but we will also be safe as will mother earth.
It’s also worth noting that a popular Libertarian slogan – “free men are not equal, equal men are not free” – has been adopted by the neo-Nazis of the National Alliance.
Tim Hall had better go and find out what a “straw man” argument is before he flaps his gums in public about what libertarianism is and isn’t.
Until then, I suggest he shuts the fuck up.
Thank you for succinctly proving my point.
Have a nice day, twit…
Anarcho-fascism?
Mmmm, fascism was born from an amalgamation of disgruntled marxists, syndicalists and overt patriots angry and dissapointed with their nations outcome in the Great War.
Syndicalism is the ideal that connects fascism with anarchism, two of the warring factions in the Spanish Civil War were both Syndicalist yet fought against each other, (Anarcho-Syndicalists and National Syndicalists)…
National Anarchism is interesting tho…
Fascism originated from Marxists and syndicalists? What kind of revised history are you reading? Fascism is dinstinctly right wing and was born from private capitalists who desired greater control over the economy and society as well. Fascism was decidedly anti-socialist, anti-communist and anti-labor. It was created out of desperation to keep the interests of the ruling capitalist elites in place admist the growing working class discontent and labor movements.
Even American capitalists such as Henry Ford applauded Fascism and even gave it private funding. A Repubican sentaor called it “the wave of the future” and supported encouraging it. It had many of the structures of modern day Neoliberal capitalism with strict moral conservatism and ultranationalism.
But anyway, to the OP, I think “anarco”-fascism is an oxymoron just like “anarcho”-capitalism. A system is not anarchy when it seeks to maintain structural hierarchy and inequality. Fascism relies on totaltarian private owners which cannot be maintained with the existence of a state.
You’re all wrong. Fascism was not right wing nor was it any wing. Fascism and Anarchism are both from the same mind, they seek the same things: evolution and progress within preservation, only they seek them within different mediums, one via the State and the other within the State of Nature. Fascims was never truly political, it was more of a way of life, just as Anarchy is.
I hate to resort to name calling, but your mentally challenged… always was, and IS STILL about politics, because every human interaction is “Political”. A way of life is it? right… Anarchy isn’t a way of life either… Personally, I look to the Ideal of Anarcho-Communism (yes, I’m a commie) I’m also a RASH (or Redand Anarchist SkinHeads) skinhead. A free-base communism in an Anarchist state would be very nice. A totalitarian Facsist state… living hell for anyone who thinks
oh well, I’m done.
~Mayhem
OOPS, I missed the word Facsim in the first line, right after “challenged…” sorry!
~Mayhem
Anarcho-fascism does exist but it is generally called National-Anarchism, or Anarcho-Primitivism. It is, infact, a very good idea, perhaps the best to come along in a long time. Those who oppose it generally do so because they are ignorant and scared of by semantics, are weak, or brain-washed libtard leftists.
I must be one of those who are ignorant and scared of(f?) by semantics, or brainwashed libtard leftist, because I’m an anarchist who thinks national anarchism is an oxymoron. Anarchism is about us spontaneously relating to others, not building walls around ourselves based on some spurious notion of race, gender, sexual identity, etc. I believe in affinity groups, but individual to individual. It doesn’t matter what ethnic background a person is, how you relate to them as an individual is what matters, and individuality is not circumscribed by these stupid notions of identity.It requires an openness, not a defensiveness in the face of ‘the Other’. Forgetting oneself is the only way one can properly live.
It’s usually ‘transnational socialism’, not ‘transnational progressivism’ as progressivism retains some positive connotations for a lot of people, while socialism has been more or less completely discredited.
As for the ‘fictional’ character of the movement, that’s a laugh. Tranzis may not have club meetings, but the philosoophy is so pervasive that to pretend it doesn’t exist is just foolish. The corrupt bureaucracies of the EU and the UN are the breeding ground of the corrupt Tranzi elite who would like to run the world and run your lives if given any opportunity.
As for Anarcho-Fascism, I’m not familiar with it unless it’s what Ron Paul’s Bircher supporters are promoting – and it might be.
What the last commenter clearly subscribes to is the anarcho-socialism which has dominated the Libertarian Party for an awfully long time, but seems now to be on the decline,
For me it’s all a lot simpler. You either believe in liberty or you don’t, regardless of what label you choose to stick on yourself.
Anarcho-Fascism is not a fictitious belief…
I feel the state should be abolished and the best way to live once the state is abolished is constant war, on every level.
I find it very rude of you to refer to my main ideology as fictitious. If I were a christian and you did this I would shit storm and sue you.
to the Comet guy fascism was actually left wing in its childhood… Mussolini the farther of fascism wrote for a socialist news paper the “avanti” (dont no about spelling) but changed to right wing after he saw he could gain mor popularity by opposing the comminist parties of Italy
Hitler started his Nazi party under the name of NATIONAL SOCIALIST which was shortened to nazi it was also called the GERMAN WORKERS PARTY
Also the political left and right r only about how to run a country economically if u look at a pollitical compus fascism is at the top and liberalism or anarchism is at the bottom a the are the social controlls of the goverment
sorry for the rant but ignorances annoys new very much so
Comet was right, you know.
Fascism may have started out on the left, but everyone but right-libertarians places it on the far right of the political spectrum.
I know neither libertarianism nor Fascism fit nearly on a one-dimensional left-right axis, but that doesn’t stop Fascism being a lot more right than left.
And while libertarians love to talk about a two-dimensional political compass, when the chips are down, right-libertarians can almost always be guaranteed to side with the wealthy elites.
Starship Trooper was based on the Swiss system, which in turn was based on ancient Athens. Anarcho-Fascism appears to be a development of the ideas of direct democracy combined with military service. People say Anarchists are naive dreamers, perhaps this is a wake-up call?