Are the BNP fascists? Ordinary members and voters may not be. They may own none of the party’s deeper convictions. Ordinary Germans who voted for the National Socialists in 1932 weren’t fascists either. The BNP’s hierarchy, though, is most definitely fascist through-and-through. Griffin’s convoluted thought process (which I hesitate to characterise as an intellect) delivers slugs of quite pure Mussolini-esque fascism, as here, in a screed apparently denying BNP/Neocon affiliation:
1) We are against the war in Iraq;
2) We are against overseas military adventures generally (though sending an SAS platoon to arrest and hang Robert Mugabe, and halt the persecution and extermination of the last white Rhodesians would be the exception to prove the rule);
3) We don’t want to export our political system to the Third World;
4) We don’t believe in imposing our economic system by force;
5) We don’t believe in multi-culturalism;
6) We don’t believe in laissez-faire economics domestically;
7) We oppose international free trade;
8) We don’t believe in ‘propositional nations’;
9) We don’t seek to impose Western culture on the whole world.
Griffin’s list contains at least half a dozen intersections with almost anyone’s ‘spot a fascist’ checklist so, yes, he’s a fascist.
‘at least half a dozen intersections’
elucidate
You could remove facism and replace with socialism and you would that same list. Facism is just another form of far left social engineering. One of the central ideas of the right is a small state and the freedom of the individual citizen. You can’t have that with Facism, Communism or Socialism.
ism’s are bad. You know the way forward is to be Conversative. Small government and leave people the hell alone.
Steve
Isolationism, distrust of supranational institutions, supremacy of the state, anti-trade, nationalism (opposition to ‘propositional nations’). OK. Five.