Fascism by another name

Frederick Forsyth, a top selling British author, who whilst researching a book, spent many hours with an elderly rabbi who had fought fascism all his life. Forsyth considered the rabbi one of the wisest men he had ever met and who had the rare gift of original thought. The rabbi was adamant fascism was a deeply imbued standard of behaviour and insisted there were four pillars to this behaviour.

• One was a total and blind commitment to the current political and moral orthodoxy.
• The second was the angry repudiation of any possibility of variant thought. He concluded this blinkered bigotry was seldom the standard of the truly evil (these were right at the very top) but of the deeply stupid.
• At number three he listed a relentless no-mercy persecution of those refusing or unable to conform to the imposed orthodoxy often stemming from the anonymous denunciation and presaged by the intimidating phrase: “We have received a complaint that you…”
• The final criterion of fascist behaviour is the demand for total control of thought, speech, writing – even body language and gesture.

The rabbi’s four criteria of practising fascism are absolutely identical to the tenets of the modern scourge of political correctness, imposed primarily by socialists and wet liberals. It can therefore be argued that PC is indeed the new fascism that scars our modern age.

Let it not be forgotten that fascism is the offspring of socialism and nothing to do with conservatism. The term Nazi derives from the first two syllables of Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers' Party).