Do you believe fascism is of the far right?

I don't. I'm fed up of people associating far right politics with fascism when it simply isn't true and never even started out that way. It is an authoritarian ideology with a mixture of extremist policies across the spectrum in my opinion.

What is your viewpoint on it?

I don't. I'm fed up of people associating far right politics with fascism when it simply isn't true and never even started out that way. It is an authoritarian ideology with a mixture of extremist policies across the spectrum in my opinion.

What is your viewpoint on it?

Split ideology into three categories:

1) Economic Ideology [Capitalism and Socialism]
2) Political Ideology [Democracy and Dictatorship]
3) Social Ideology [Egalitarian and Sectarian]

To be deemed fascist, I believe your social ideology must be in some way sectarian. For example, the tories operate on behalf of the rich/elites, saudis for sunni's, britain for english, usa for european americans, India for Hindus etc. If your policies are based around this ideology you can be deemed fascist.

Your political ideology is normally closer to a dictatorship than a democracy. This fits the description of all governments in the world. None are truly democratic. The favoured social group normally has access to privileges that the unfavoured social group/s do not. For example, a rich person can murder someone and be freed quite easily. A poor person will be put away for life. Or, a german nazi party member can kill a Jewish person and be exonerated whereas a Jew would be put to death or thrown in jail for their whole life. The unfavoured social groups aren't represented in the government, cannot exercise their rights or have little/no rights etc etc...

The economic ideology doesn't matter that much on it's own. Normally the economy is run in a way to benefit the specific people that their social ideology encompasses so again tories for the rich, nazi's for aryans, saudi's for sunni etc etc...It doesn't matter if they are socialist or capitalist.

An extremist policy for one person might be a revolutionary policy for another person lol

Fascism is a right wing ideology because to be right wing is to be an advocate social inequality. If you think it is normal or right that a certain group of peoples are discriminated in some way or they are a lower social status than your social group then you are right wing and basically fascist.

I doubt many people have a particularly good understanding of fascism other than omg nazis, so it's a difficult one to actually debate.

I thought the difference between the right wing and the left wing was that the right wing advocates limited government and the left wing advocates larger government? "right" and "left" politically looks at economics, because the political spectrum has government involvement(s) going left and north, but we're not talking about north and south (authoritarianism and libertarianism) here, we're talking about right and left, and equality before the law is present both on the extreme right and the extreme left, so we cant really say it's defined by equality simply because the extreme left adds another kind of "equality" which is just an outcome of policy/power/intervention which is its defining component - if the extreme right was about inequality, it wouldn't be bout being "far right" but rather "far north" in that sense because right wing economics isn't saying anything about formal equality before the law, but if it is about individuals, then it is about individual (legal) equality. I should also add that equality is a government creation, so you need power before you can get equality in this sense...but in my opinion, far left politics seems to divide people more than "far right" politics, seeing as it treats people differently based on their wealth or class, and policies are tailored to certain people, e.g. if you have more money, you get taxed more, while in "far right" economics, everybody's taxed the same (etc)

No. It's all about how society is arranged. Right wingers think it is normal, natural or right to have inequality and therefore operate within this paradigm. Left wingers think there shouldn't be inequality and operate within that paradigm.

The size or reach of government doesn't really matter. What matters is the political ideology. You can have big government which is either democratic or authoritarian. You can have a small government which is either democratic or authoritarian. If your government is authoritarian, it is authoritarian. Any dissent is punished, government policy must be followed etc etc.

I think a big democratically run government is the best scenario although this has never existed in history.

At the end of the day, equality is the end goal. Without equality people who are persecuted due to inequality, whether it is economic, political or social inequality, will not be happy. Those who witness inequality being inflicted on their fellow human will not be happy. The tax rate is an effort to equalize the system but it is a feeble attempt and in fact it actually causes those who are taxed more to think they earned that money legitimately lol.

Lefties want equality across the board. Righties do not. Righties strive for more inequality which will inevitably lead to uprisings.

If you want right wingers to rule the world make sure you are rich, white, male and heterosexual otherwise you'll be oppressed.

but societies are *arranged* by states, and states are uniquely bodies with monopolies on the use of legitimate force. and seeing as we're talkin about "left and right", the context of statism means that those on the right want less government (for purposes of economics) and those on the left want more government (for the purposes of economics)

Fascism is economically somewhere in the middle, but its defining quality is extreme authoritarianism. It is almost the opposite of classical liberalism. (Maoist communism is the true opposite).

Anything which favours hierarchy and structure is right wing so yes it is, even though in practice it is in many ways extreme centrism.

Fascism is economically somewhere in the middle, but its defining quality is extreme authoritarianism. It is almost the opposite of classical liberalism. (Maoist communism is the true opposite).

Surely though on the far left you have Socialism, which advocates complete state control. You don't tend to get more structured than that.

There are three entities that can have control of society and hence the world: Governments, Private Businesses or Individuals. Individuals never have control of society. It passes between governments and businesses. Small government means big private businesses and vice versa.

Governments are supposed to be controlled by the individual so if these was the current situation I would like more government. More nationalization, more central planning. Not less so the private capitalists can do what they want with impunity.

The real issue is how do people get control of government. The left is the only ideology that will pursue such a goal. The right are hypocrites. They say small government is good because it will make people free when in reality the control goes to those who control resources and production aka corporations.

Big government + democracy = a better world.

Right now we have Big government in certain areas (Small in the main areas i.e. the economy) + dictatorship = a ****ty world

Right wing fascist ideology is the dominant ideology in the world. That's why you see so much sectarianism.

Anarchism if traditionally far left.

Always considered Socialism to be pretty far left itself, with anarchism being further along. Although I'm viewing this through a British current day prism, which might be why.

Your faith in big government is disturbing although very common.

Big government does not protect us from big companies, quite the opposite actually. Big government favours the biggest corporations by erecting barriers to entry for competitors through over-regulation and also because politicians love redirecting public funds to those who funded their political campaigns.

We do have extensive government intervention in the economy. Maybe its not exactly the kind of intervention that you favour, but it surely exists.