Wednesday, October 03, 2012

Quote of the Day: The Ethics of Fascism

Fascist ethics begin ... with the acknowledgment that it is not the individual who confers a meaning upon society, but it is, instead, the existence of a human society which determines the human character of the individual. According to Fascism, a true, a great spiritual life cannot take place unless the State has risen to a position of pre-eminence in the world of man. The curtailment of liberty thus becomes justified at once, and this need of rising the State to its rightful position.
This is from Mario Palmieri in The Philosophy of Fascism 1936 (Liberty Tree).  

A alter ego of fascism is nationalism. 

From Wikipedia: Fascism ( /ˈfæʃɪzəm/) is a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology

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