Liberal Fascism
I am reading the book Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg. I have agreed with the premise of this book long before it was written. He points out that liberals have made it their mission to incorrectly foist the 'fascist' label upon what we today consider the right-wing, or Conservative political beliefs. In reality, that could not be more incorrect. Fascism is a liberal phenomenon, almost by definition. We were taught by academia (quite incorrectly) that the politics of Hitler and Mussolini was right-wing, when in fact it's left wing. Fascism goes hand in hand with national socialism, and it frankly cannot function in a true right-wing limited-government environment. In the modern American sense, a conservative (or traditional classical liberal) believes in small, limited government, typically limited by a written constitution. Conservatives believe in the individual- that the pursuit of an individual's self-interest is also what ...