>>2413422>Which side do you pick and why?I pick the third side.
Fascism is therefore opposed to all
individualistic abstractions based on eighteenth
century materialism; and it is opposed to all
Jacobinistic utopias and innovations. It does not
believe in the possibility of “happiness” on earth
as conceived by the economistic literature of
the 18th century, and it therefore rejects the
theological notion that at some future time the
human family will secure a final settlement of all its
difficulties. This notion runs counter to experience
which teaches that life is in continual flux and in
process of evolution. In politics Fascism aims at
realism; in practice it desires to deal only with those
problems which are the spontaneous product of
historic conditions and which find or suggest
their own solutions. Only by entering in to the
process of reality and taking possession of the forces
at work within it, can man act on man and on nature.
Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life
stresses the importance of the State and accepts the
individual only in so far as his interests coincide
with those of the State, which stands for the
conscience and the universal, will of man as a
historic entity. It is opposed to classical liberalism
which arose as a reaction to absolutism and
exhausted its historical function when the State
became the expression of the conscience and will of
the people. Liberalism denied the State in the name
of the individual; Fascism reasserts
The rights of the State as expressing the real essence
of the individual. And if liberty is to he the attribute of
living men and not of abstract dummies invented by
individualistic liberalism, then Fascism stands for
liberty, and for the only liberty worth having, the
liberty of the State and of the individual within the
State. The Fascist conception of the State is all
embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values
can exist, much less have value. Thus understood,
Fascism, is totalitarian, and the Fascist State — a
synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values —
interprets, develops, and potentates the whole life of a
people.