Hi all,
Given the standard definition and understanding of PRAXIS
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_ (process), can one
possibly say or assume a political ideology like FASCISM
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism) is a product of
Praxis.
Can Fascism under the guise of Praxis address the core
issues that are central to Humanity or an individual
correspondingly in the spiritual, ideological or
pedagogical processes that are part of critical or
evolutionary consciousness?
Does Fascism effectively camouflage the “Truth” or the
Facts in a manner that is distortion of "reality" or of
"self identities" and a sham scientific process in the
evolution historical processes, where in humanity, given
its imperfect nature of self is led in to self deception or
false beliefs based on identities of gender, class, race,
culture, religion and national Identity?
Former Columbia University Professor Robert O. Paxton has
written that:
Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior
marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline,
humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of
unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of
committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but
effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons
democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence
and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal
cleansing and external expansion."[11]
Paxton further defines fascism's essence as:
1.A sense of overwhelming crisis beyond reach of
traditional solutions.
2. Belief one’s group is the victim, justifying any action
without legal or moral limits.
3. Need for authority by a natural leader above the law,
relying on the superiority of his instincts.
4. Right of the chosen people to dominate others without
legal or moral restraint.
5. Fear of foreign `contamination."[12]
Semiotician Umberto Eco attempts to identify the
characteristics of proto-fascism as the cult of tradition,
rejection of modernism, cult of action for action's sake,
life is lived for struggle, fear of difference, rejection
of disagreement, contempt for the weak, cult of masculinity
and machismo, qualitative populism, appeal to a frustrated
majority, obsession with a plot, illicitly wealthy enemies,
education to become a hero, and speaking Newspeak, in his
popular essay Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at
a Blackshirt.[15] More recently, an emphasis has been
placed upon the aspect of populist fascist rhetoric that
argues for a "re-birth" of a conflated nation and ethnic
people.[16]
I welcome your views and thoughts,
Regards,
Indrakaran.
Boston.
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