Ooooooooh! The edge is sharper than that bayonet.
- The cult of tradition. “One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.”
- The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.”
- The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”
- Disagreement is treason. “The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge.”
- Fear of difference. “The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.”
- Appeal to social frustration. “One of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups.”
- The obsession with a plot. “The followers must feel besieged. The easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia.”
- The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
- Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. “For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle.”
- Contempt for the weak. “Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology.”
- Everybody is educated to become a hero. “In Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death.”
- Machismo and weaponry. “Machismo implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality.”
- Selective populism. “There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.”
- Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.”
Radio Blue Heart presents TALES FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!
Episode 44: Don’t Be A Sucker!
A 1947 film that warns people of the dangers of racism, bigotry and fascism! A young man learns a valuable lesson when he almost gets taken in by a hate-spewing demagog.
As valuable today as it was back then!
Once again this film is PUBLIC DOMAIN and not copyright protected in the US at least. You can make and sell your own DVD of it, download it, show it for free or for profit. Or remix it or use it for stock footage
On Monday 4th of July four neo-nazis will stand trial for attacking and causing injuries to six anti-fascists in Malmo, Sweden, after the anarcha-feminist march organized in the context of the International Women’s Day on the 8th of March, 2014. Every year on the 8th of March in Malmo, anarchafeminist collectives organize night marches that are exclusively participated and guarded by women and transgender individuals. After the march there is usually a party that is organized and participated by comrades from the wider anarchist and anti-authority scene. On the night of the 8th of March 2014, following the completion of the autonomous/working-class feminist march ”Reclaim the Night” at Möllevågnstorget square (equivalent to Exarcheia district in Athens), groups of protesters along with comrades in the area began to march to People’s Park which is where the party was taking place, located approximately 300 meters away from the square. Along the way and only a few blocks away from the square, the group of comrades came across neonazi members of the national socialist Party of the Swedes (Svenskarnas Parti), who were applying stickers outside the anti-fascist centre Glassfabriken. (look at the map)
During the clashes that followed six comrades got injured: 4 had superficial knife wounds all over their bodies, one sustained serious injuries as the knife had penetrated his lungs and another sustained severe brain trauma and knife injuries all over his body. Four of the injured comrades were discharged from hospital after having been given first aid, while the other two with serious injuries had to remain hospitalized. It quickly became known that an anti-fascist named Showan Shattak was in a coma in the ICU and the prognosis about his life was uncertain. Even if Showan made it he would never be the same person again. How did the nazis come to carry through an organized attack in one of the most notable anti-fascist districts in Scandinavia where immigrants and anti-fascists have lived and organized collectively since the 1980s?
The Swedish society faced the neo-nazi threat at the beginning of the 90s following a domestic financial crisis and historical developments characterized by the collapse of the soviet bloc and the rise of neo-nazism in Germany. Swedish fascists provided leading members of the German NPD with shelter, while the latter contributed towards organizing a militant neo-nazi movement in Scandinavia. Swedish fascists used pogroms against immigrants and attacks against anarcho-syndicalists to impose their hegemony on the streets. Very quickly, they encountered the bold resistance of a militant anti-fascist front composed by smaller local anti-fascist groups in the towns and cities of Sweden as well as the Swedish platform of Antifascist Movement (AFA) which became active in 1993 and was quickly integrated with the European anti-fascist movements, particularly those in Germany and Scandinavia. Militant anti-fascism in Sweden during the second half of the ’90s was protective against the spread of the epidemic of fascism in the country via crucial and very impressive actions. For many years the presence of fascists was restricted in closed meetings and the internet.
But there was a shift from 2010 onward.
Radio Blue Heart presents TALES FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!
Episode 67: The Hangman
A short film using limited animation, “The Hangman” is based on a poem written by Maurice Ogden in 1951 and published in 1954. This was a time when the wounds left by the Holocaust were still fresh and time in America when McCarthyism brought a new wave of fascism and tyranny.
It was inspired by the famous quote by Martin Niemöller:
“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”
Its about how fascism and tyranny thrive when apathy grows. When good people stand by and do nothing while other good people are robbed of their rights and lives. The Hangman claims victim after victim, his power overshadowing justice, while people do nothing to stop him.
Radio Blue Heart presents TALES FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!
Episode 44: Don’t Be A Sucker!
A 1947 film that warns people of the dangers of racism, bigotry and fascism! A young man learns a valuable lesson when he almost gets taken in by a hate-spewing demagog.
As valuable today as it was back then!
Once again this film is PUBLIC DOMAIN and not copyright protected in the US at least. You can make and sell your own DVD of it, download it, show it for free or for profit. Or remix it or use it for stock footage
