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Also if you dig through replies someone calls Napoleon a fascist which seems incredibly ahistorical to me.
At the very least anachronistic
Why?
The term fascism didn't appear until nearly a century after Napoleon died. It would be like saying John Lilburne was a socialist.
Calling Napoleon a fascist would also open a big bucket of worms that would place nearly every European monarch under that label. It's imprecise and ahistorical. The best definitions of fascism place it as an emergency condition of capital, where the tools of imperialism are turned inward to suppress leftist movements, and this is done among popular enthusiasm. The thing most suppressed by Napoleonic code was aristocracy, not internal leftist movements. The conditions that were administered by the First French Empire were barely at the beginning stages of capitalism even existing.
In the liberal mind totalitarianism and fascism are interchangeable terms because they are the same thing.
Because in the liberal world it's important to not understand the economic and social precursors to fascism.
If you did you wouldn't be a liberal
Fascism didn't exist yet
Yes, massively so.