Fighting the rise of right-wing fascism

It's not inherently right wing unless you think of politics as a single axis, which has always felt painfully reductionist to me.

Fascism is a product of authoritarian ideology, opposite libertarianism (nb. the Libertarian Party in the US is not libertarian; libertarianism and capitalism are incompatible) on the "social order" axis (which is typically the vertical one). It is characterized by a strict social order enforced by implicit or explicit violence in conjunction with the designation of one or more groups of "outsiders" as enemies of the order (and therefore of the state). The left-right axis represents economic order, and the social structure of fascism doesn't really prescribe one.

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