RE: France objects to "Waterloo" coin?
June 11, 2015 at 11:31 am
(This post was last modified: June 11, 2015 at 11:35 am by Anomalocaris.)
(June 11, 2015 at 11:15 am)Dystopia Wrote: Fascism only applies to a certain doctrine some dictators follow - A dictator may not be fascist - He may be a theocrat, authoritarian, oligarch, communist/stalinist, pretty much everything compatible with a minimum of monopolised power. I think you should really inform and educate yourself on this since it's very clear you don't know anything about political systems and most of your opinions are about what you want to be true regardless of what it factually is. You complain about monopolies, yet you support the system that allows the most oppressive economic monopolies (either you buy from us or you starve, no pick!). See the contradiction?
Funny - Hitchens's lasts words were "capitalism, downfall" and he considered himself a marxist in some instances (mostly trotskist) - A system that, depending on your approach, can be compatible with some kind of dictatorship
Oh and some dictators do need consent to rule - That's why they are elected in the first place
Judging from his previous posts, you are arguing against someone who, whatever he says about dictatorship, is at heart a rigid would be intellectual petty dictator who has little capacity to digest points of view not consistent his own, and who would neither change his mind nor change the subject, and who, if given a chance and the ability, would mercilessly stamp out any thinking not thought by him to be in line with his own.
I think for him, freedom essentially means dictatorship by the right people and right view point, however he would choose to represent it.