So you admit your definition of "fascism" is time dependent? So why is this definition useful, are you saying that the laws of nature (or at least human nature) aren't uniform across time?
So you admit your definition of "fascism" is time dependent?
One element of fascism is a desire to restore (alleged) past glories.
(I am not in fact convinced that "nearly everyone before the 19th century" has the characteristics I described. Some of them don't even make much sense before the 19th century; e.g., the sort of leftism Hitler worried about, or the sort neoreactionaries worry about, didn't exist in that form before the 19th century. But that's a separate argument, and for now I'm happy to stick with this one.)
...So why is th
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