Fascism?

People think that by protesting they are fighting Fascism. But do they even know what fascism is? Here is my definition: 

Fascism is where the people own the means of production but the government controls the means of production. 

(If you are interested in this topic, be sure to read my blog post that this definition is taken from.) 

When I asked Google to define it here is what I got:

an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.

This definition does not actually work as Hitler and Mussolini were both men of the left.  

How did Mussolini define it? 

1."Everything in the state". The Government is supreme and the country is all-encompasing, and all within it must conform to the ruling body, often a dictator. 

2."Nothing outside the state". The country must grow and the implied goal of any fascist nation is to rule the world, and have every human submit to the government. 

3."Nothing against the state". Any type of questioning the government is not to be tolerated. If you do not see things our way, you are wrong. If you do not agree with the government, you cannot be allowed to live and taint the minds of the rest of the good citizens. 

You can also go here and read Mussolini's own words. Or you can look at the various definitions compiled at Wikipedia.  

Here is an interesting one from John T. Flynn. 

In 1944, American right-winger John T. Flynn wrote a polemical work, As we go marching,^[12] aimed against socialist and social democratic tendencies that he saw beginning to subvert capitalism. He characterizes fascism based on an analysis of Mussolini's Italy: 

1. Anti-capitalist, but with capitalist features;
2. Economic demand management...
3. ...through budget deficits
4. Direct economic planning, reconciled with partial economic autonomy through corporatism;
5. Militarism and imperialism;
6. Suspension of rule of law

 How about George Orwell, author of 1984?

Fascism, at any rate the German version, is a form of capitalism that borrows from Socialism just such features as will make it efficient for war purposes... It is a planned system geared to a definite purpose, world-conquest, and not allowing any private interest, either of capitalist or worker, to stand in its way.

!930's FascismSo by this definition I would say that to a large degree each US Administration since Roosevelt has been Fascist to some degree. (Note I did not say which Roosevelt!) 

I cannot help but think that the US is Fascist when I think about recent US History. The CIA and its interference in democratically elected leaders the US did not like: Allende in Chile, Mosaddeq in Iran, Yanukovych in Ukraine, and various interventions and assassinations too numerous to mention or link to in the Caribbean and Central America. I won't even mention the Tuesday meetings where Obama decided who he was going to murder this week, or wait I did mention it, sorry.  

When I hear the Chant USA, USA, I can't help but think about Fascist America:

To see many, many example of this, type in USA Chant into YouTube. Yes, a lot of these videos are associated with Trump.  

So, no, these protestors are not protesting Fascism. They are protesting that their version of Fascism lost in the last election, and that someone else's version won. How many people understand that their government is a beast? Not many.