Prager U: Is Fascism Right Or Left?

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"Let me introduce him to you. His name is Giovanni Gentile," D’Souza says.

Gentile was an Italian philosopher born in the first half of the twentieth century. In his writings, he dismisses individualism in favor of a system where citizens were subordinate to the state.

"Like his philosophical mentor, Karl Marx, Gentile wanted to create a community that resembles the family, a community where we are 'all in this together,'" says D'Souza. "It's easy to see the attraction of this idea. Indeed, it remains a common rhetorical theme of the left."

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D’Souza points out, "At the 1984 convention of the Democratic Party, the governor of New York, Mario Cuomo, likened America to an extended family where, through the government, people all take care of each other."

He adds, "Nothing’s changed. Thirty years later, a slogan of the 2012 Democratic Party convention was, 'The government is the only thing we all belong to.' They might as well have been quoting Gentile."


Prager U: Is Fascism Right Or Left?
 
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