- Francesco Saverio Nitti, Bolshevism, Fascism and Democracy by former Prime Minister of Italy (1927) pp. 126-127
- Cyprian P. Blamires, editor, World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia, Volume 1 (2006) p.p. 95-96.
- -Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, New York: NY, Signet Book from the New American Library (1967) p. 180
- -Winston Churchill, The Second World War, Volume 1, The Gathering Storm, Mariner Books (1985) pp. 13-14. First published in 1944
So the question is, who were the good guys here- the fascists or the antifascists? The answer isn't really all that hard: neither. Anyone who has read my blog for any length of time can be in no doubt of my utter contempt for the tenets of fascism and for those who embrace them. But in a free society citizens have the right to peacefully assemble and march even if they do so with the vilest of motivations. Those who oppose them have the exact same right to organize and protest- so long as that protest does not devolve into violence. When it does, it is the duty of the police- whose job it is to enforce the law- to step in and put a stop to it irrespective of which group or ideology is responsible for it.
Anyone who is familiar with my writing can also have no doubt about my complete loathing of communism and socialism in all their forms. Fascism, with Nazi Germany as Exhibit A, is responsible for the deaths of millions and untold misery for millions more. Communism, however, has killed at a rate which the most virulent Nazi could only dream of; we may never know how many hundreds of millions have been murdered, "disappeared", starved to death, or enslaved by practitioners of this evil ideology.
As I watched the grim spectacle of the dregs of society battling each other this past week, I couldn't help thinking of the end of George Orwell's Animal Farm, when the animals could no longer discern any difference between the pigs and the humans. That's how I feel about the fascists and antifascists, so-called: they are two sides of the same dud coin. Case in point- both sides reflexively hate Jews. It doesn't matter if they do it for racial or economic reasons; the result is the same. In actuality, both groups are racist- they just disagree on which races should be vilified and celebrated (excepting Jews, of course). Both are not opposed to using violence to accomplish their aims, and both are just fine with using the power of the state to crush their opponents. None of this will lead anywhere good.