I know KF ain’t the best place to ask religious questions but what is the Christian way to handle this? How can good fight against such blatant and militant evil?
Destruction of something which is ontologically evil must by definition be good. Cold steel and righteous flame usually does the trick. Don't forget when you're done to burn their lairs and literature.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I had thought fascism was an Italian thing borne from Mussolini wanting a system that placed the head-of-state at the center of national interest. I'm not a particularly big politics buff. I'd like to be fact-checked on this.
Fascism is a form of government where the apparatus of the state/local governments, civil organizations, corporations, etc, are all bound together with the common goal of advancing the interests of a party (not political, but a group.) In the Italian Fascist school, all these groups were working to advance The State (Of Italy in this case), while the German/North European Fascism instead was advocating for a concept of
Der Volk, the ethno-nationalist cultural group of its citizens. In either case, a strong economy through alignment of all its parts was core, either to make The State powerful and wealthy, or its ethnocultural group. Either system was also prone to authoritarianism, which is a component or character of a government system (not a system unto itself), but the Italian school especially since The State was primary and its citizens expected to sacrifice their lives and freedoms (slavery, essentially) for Italy, whereas the Northern European could be considered less so since a greater degree of individual liberty was integral to preserving the character of
Der Volk.
Fascism is Italian in origin, yes and Mussolini wanted a strong government with a very powerful head of government. .....
Most people aren't interested in an actual conversation about what the ideology actually was, to them it's simply useful as an insult and little else.
I always find it tiresome, the Italians and Nordics wrote extensively on Fascism and the Volkish movement, with plenty of freely available translations of adequate quality (
Many footnoted or with commentary). Most of the material isn't half as dense as modern academic dreck, and relatively easy to follow.
(Even if the Italians have a bad habit of rambling.) A few hours of reading would equip even a casual layman with enough understanding to discuss the broad stroke intelligently, perhaps even dive into some of the nuanced parts.
