Essay:Fascism across the world
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Something that’s really interested me about politics is observing the rise of right wing populism and seeing how they evolve (or rather devolve) into fascism. For me, categorizing these people is like collecting Pokémon (there’s a lot to find and learn about more in depth). One example is how Vladimir Putin went from a left leaning person to a rightist politician to eventually becoming an unholy hybrid of fascism and red fascism. Another common example is Donald Trump. Trump is an example of how the worst possible person imaginable was able to gain power. Nobody thought he would win, yet by exploiting nativism and creating fear revolving immigrants using xenophobia makes an interesting case study for how fascists like trump gain power in a democratic system by using undemocratic means.
Topics like this interest me in geopolitics because it shows dictatorships still live today despite that we fought dictatorships in the past. Despite this, liberty will always succeed no matter how bad it gets.
Comparisons[edit]
| Aspect of fascism | Generic | M.S. Golwalkar | Davud Monshizadeh |
|---|---|---|---|
| Decline | Good old days | Vedic period | Avestan period |
| Humiliation | Loss of territory, defeat in war | Partition of India, Muslim conquests of India | Muslim conquests of Persia |
| Victimhood | Victim mentality | Supposed Islamist attacks from the Middle East, Afghanistan, and Pakistan | Muslims oppressing Zoroastrians |
| Unity | Different groups uniting under a common goal | BJP, RSS | SUMKA, Iran-e-No Party |
| Energy | Mass rallies dedicated to the leader | BJP rallies, far-right online trolls, Media propagandists | BJP rallies, far-right online brigades |
| Purity | Ethnic cleansing, Genocide | Removing muslims and christians to form a hindu state | Removing Muslims and Arabs to create a Zoroastrian state |
| Mass-based party of committed nationalist militants | Para military organizations | RSS, BJP | Para military organization advocating for creating a zoroastrian state (SUMKA) |
| Uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites | elites aiding the leader | Indian upper class | Iranian upper class |
| Abandons democratic liberties | violation of human rights | Hate crimes against muslims and christians | Islamophobic violence |
| Pursues with redemptive violence without ethical or legal constraints goals of internal cleansing | genocide, ethnic cleansing, bigotry | Killing of muslims and christians | Mass internment and murders of christians, jews, and muslims |
| External expansion | Irredentism | Akhand Bharat | Annexing Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Armenia, and Georgia |