Never forget that the Nazis were actually pretty popular in a lot of other Western countries until the war actually broke out. Their ideology really wasn’t so far from the prevailing colonialist one as a lot of people like to think.
Nazis were not Fascist though. They were ideologically different, though allies none the less out of circumstance. For example. Italian Fascism was literally built on the foundation of Marxist Syndicalism, though abandoned Internationalism, and Adopted Nationalism. They abandoned Marx's Class Theory of HIstory as well, so abandoned Syndicalism and adopted Corporatism which believed in bringing owners and workers together by making them all join Corporations within their industrial sectors of society, which itself also a branch of Syndicalism at least modern Corporatism from the mid 19th Century was. FASCISM literally means Trade Unionism, it's the actual Translation of the Name Fascism in from Italian as the name Fasci and Fascio were commonly used in Italy for Trade Union. The correct definition of Fascism pretty much equals: National Corporatism, or National Trade Unionism. ie Trade Unionism for the Nation. It's the only time that Corporatism was practiced at a National level. Where the Nazis differ is quite striking. Fascist didn't believe in Classism or Racism. Were as Fascist believed in using Nationalism and Corporatism to wipe out class distinction and bring all society together ie *Bundle of Sticks mentality* the Nazis adopted a purely Racist mentality, similar to Marxist Classist mentality. Were Marxist wanted to great a Worker's Utopia the Nazis wanted to create a Racial Community. This was literally in opposition to just about everything Fascism stood for as it's goal was to remove all Class/Group Distinction and unite everyone together under the Nation with Nationalism. While the economy itself was to be a Corporate State. Nazism wanted to flat out remove everyone from their community that wasn't of their race, and being race is a social construct it's very concept was in opposition to Fascism, even Mussolini considered race to be nothing but a feeling ie built almost entirely in the heads of people. This ironically means that Nazism, actually has more in common with say the Soviet Union than it does other Fascist Regimes like the Fascist Party of Austria which the Nazis assassinated the leader or Fascist Italy. It's actually academic laziness that they're considered one in the same.
@@Alte.Kameraden Trying to argue that because certain self-professed attributes of ACTUAL FASCISTS makes them somehow not fascist is not even "academic laziness" - it is pure sophistry. AKA Bullshitting but with bigger words. Which is befitting to someone defending fascist in such a "no true fascist" way - as the "ideology" of fascism is in itself BULLSHIT. Any old (or new) ideological label popular at the time will do cause it is just an EXCUSE to get the masses to support the fascists' seizure of power, along with a war on "the other" to eliminate any opposition - culminating in "reinstatement" of some fictional golden age of empire and power, with fascists on the throne. I.e. "Give us the power and we will right the injustice done to us all, punish the guilty and bring about the golden age of old." It's a Ponzi scheme regime. It takes the power of the masses, promises huge dividends, pays to some for a while while taking from others to support that transfer - but ultimately just gathers the investment of power in the hands of the schemer.
@@d3nza482 Then all Socialism is a Ponzi scheme, I know TIKHistory would make that claim, his most recent video on the 1918/19 revolution in Germany sums up how even Social Democracy is a joke. ruclips.net/video/pwJf8O1S6eA/видео.html
@@Alte.Kameraden Don't you have something better to do, like ironing your Allgemeine-SS uniform replica for inspection or complaining on Reddit about how modern degenerate culture has made women not respect your "game"?
@@tankermottind "All Socialism is Antisemitism." Josef Goebbels. If you know your Socialist history you'd understand why. But most only believe the religion preached to them. ruclips.net/video/eCkyWBPaTC8/видео.html < 107 sources, 351 citations. The National Socialist were real Socialist and it's pretty undeniable. Sadly not included in that video as it's off the topic, but. The very concept of a Capitalist is built on the foundation of Antisemitism. Said youtuber does a breakdown of Marx's views on the subject. It is why the stereotypes of both are identical.
Yeah, that was good for a laugh. My wife and I recently took ancestry gene tests for fun, and to use her words, turns out I am "ridiculously, impressively white". Something like 96% from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and then the other 4% is Finnish and Scandinavian. If I go shirtless, the sun on my chest blinds people.
@@hughcaldwell1034 lol I'm the same. Don't know the exact numbers, but I'm around 10% German with the other 90% English, Welsh, and Irish. Basically as white as it gets
@@hughcaldwell1034 I am 96 Iberian but I got 2 percent indigenous American and north African. You probably can tell which island I am from lol based on that info a very famous island in the cold war era
@@ChillGoblin Echoing requests for ability to get the song in isolation - I sometimes come back just to listen to this song because it's silly-catchy but also I want to remember the list.
I highly recomend Aimé Cesaire's "Discourse on Colonialism" and Rajani Palme Dutt's "Fascism and Social Revolution" to anyone who wants to deepen their knowledge of the relationship between Fascism and Colonialism.
"... European history could only see the shame, crime and humiliation inherent in Nazism when applied to the white European population's colonialist strategies which 'until then had been reserved exclusively for the Arabs of Algeria, the coolies of India, and the blacks of Africa.” This line lives rent free in my head.
@@Vhlathanosh lol like european natonas serbians were not displaced and killed in europe beforehand .Germans also for cneturies descrimnated killed and subjugated slavic populaion.Eastern germany was slavivc.We can also talk about greeks-eurpena nation who were displaced by tursks or if we ar into whiteness armenians who are also annihilated by turks but are considered caucasions. If you are into narrow whitness hitelr and nazism didnt touch so called true racist asians core so again this notion is not true. jews were not considred white nor eruoepans by most and germnay had no etemrinaion or even enforced clonision plans for western europe. so in short this is pretty poor notion analised more than first glance.
A completely different angle is the psychology/sociology of authoritarianism. I find that to be really helpful in understanding the why and how of fascism and Nationalism... And of course religion. Bob Altemeyer's book The Authoritarians is free online too Not a disagreement with the colonialism approach, but more of a complimentary way of looking at it
Thank you for talking about Hindu fascism in India. Those folks have been working to creating a kind of self victimhood that uses vocabulary used by progressives, such as Hinduphobia, which has managed to silence a lot of well meaning white people. What is happening in India is terrifying, and it just isn't being talked about the way it should be.
@@funybirbman3813 india is ruled by a nationalist hindu party and their paramilitary offshoot, both of which their president modi is a member of. they are working on making anyone not a hindu a second class citizen. some of their politicians have openly backed a possible genocide on the non-hindu population. as usually, right wingers don't want to call it fascism, to avoid the negative connotations.
I would even agree that Hinduphobia is a thing but not in a country where far-right Hindus are in power. Same as Islapophobia is a real thing in the west and in India but not in Pakistan where right-wing Muslims are in power. The goal of the left is to end these divisions "end the vanity of nations, we have one earth on which to live" as the line goes in The Internatioanle.
There are almost as many English words for fascism as there are Inuit words for snow: nationalism, exceptionalism, chauvinism, colonialism, genocide...and business
Australia has concentration camps too. I've been calling them that for years and the response i often get it "well,,theyre not..i mean...yeah tru". the aus gov has been called out numerous times by the UN and similar bodies, saying our immigration regime is a "crime against humanity" and yet the UN doesnt actually do anything about it.
the UN sadly doesn't do anything about.. well, anything. That's the problem when you give five nations with wildly different goals Veto powers on everything
@@ChillGoblin If you or anyone else is interested in a book that discusses the brutal bordering regimes from australia and other countries, as well as connects the process of bordering to capitalist-colonialism, I HIGHLY recommend reading "Border and Rule" by Harsha Walia!! It is an incredibly important book that came out this year.
I think the fact that Greece and Italy have routinely drowned refugees to keep them from their shores is solid proof the UN has no interest in human rights if it doesn't serve a geopolitical agenda for it's largest members.
Im a half-german (half-arab) historian and the chapter on germany was FREAKIN EXCELLENT. Even at german universities, we rarely talk about colonialism - it's always presented with this naive wide-eyed "wow i only just found out about this!! Did you know???" tone. We even still have some streets in Berlin named after colonial generals! (For context, the nazis have of course been removed from street names, which to be clear is a VERY good thing) (I would, in the spanish gold section, slightly warn against using the modern qualifier 'germany', since the united nation didn't even exist until like the mid-19th century? but the message remains, german families & federal states benefited vastly from other european colonialism)
Well, the most agregious Nazis were removed, but many Nazi Names were not. There is a recent study showing that in Berlin alone there are thousands of names with antisemitic connotations.
The most Ironic is that my country, the Netherlands, went back to Indonesia after WOII to reclaim the country as our property. That people could not see the hypocrisy really baffles me.
Damn, i recently watched hbomberguys video on plagarism, and i got mad paranoid that every video essay channel might be plagiarizing, you got a very unique take and coloquial writing style, and the way you so cleanly citing your sources, got me at ease
As a German, we learned basically nothing about our colonial history in high school. Most of our focus is on the Nazis, while most of our textbooks don't even mention our colonial history. Also, yes, Germany did apologize for the genocide to the Herero & Nama people. Our politicians are calling it a genocide as well and finally, after 6 years of negotiations paid some money to Namibia in 2021 and we are also finally considering to return some of the many stolen objects. However, while german politicians apologizzed and paid (a relatively small) amount of money, Germany never legally called it a genocide (despite what most news articles on it would make you believe) and the few millions went to the Namibian state, not the Herero & Nama people and can not be considered reparations at all. Edit: For further information, check out my reply to this comment Just wanted to add the bit of knowledge that I had on the subject, the video is great and I actually learned quite a lot. Keep up the great work!
Thanks for your insight! I'm so curious about exactly where that money is going in Namibia. Agree that it definitely can't be called reparations unless it's going directly to the people affected by the genocide. From what I understand the money will be given in smaller amounts over the next 30 years.
Something that is glossed over in most treatments of WW2 is that Hitler's war in Europe was precisely and exactly a colonial war. His plan was to conquer and subjugate the subhumans of the Soviet Union and set up US style plantations and settlements with the local people as slave labour.
@@ChillGoblin The problem with this deal is that it is an inter-state negotiation, with the affected Herero and Nama representatives not part of the discussions. The money is not for those wjho suffered from and continue to live with the after effects of the genocide, but is given to the state of Namibia, who will (hopefully in tandem with the Herero and Nama communities) ultimately decide what to do with it.
They did not pay money. They offered to pay 10 million euros (which was supposed to be paid to German corporations in Namibia over the course of 30 YEARS!!) but that was rejected by Namibia and seen as an insult to the victims. A friend of mine went to this school that was planning on getting renovated….and they paid 25 million euros for the school renovations. So if a school can pay 25 million for renovations the Federal Government can only pay 10 million for genocide that eradicated 80% of an ethnic group? I am an Afrogerman btw and I too NEVER learned about our colonial history all throughout school.
Great video! I think the relationship between fascism and colonialism is so obvious it is weird how overlooked it is a lot of the time. Especially how German genocides in Africa were somewhat of a trial run for the Holocaust Just one thing, I think you misunderstood the article you quote at 28:40 somewhat. "Vorwärts" was the party newspaper of the social democrats, one of the only great parties in Germany at the time who opposed colonialism. I went to the online archives and read the entire thing. It doesn't really blame Jews for colonial crimes, it rather compares the the antisemitism of right wing Germans to their racism against Africans. Overall, it is very clear in its disdain for german colonialism and antisemitism, calling one politicians deeds "abhorrent crimes of this christian-germanic apostle of colonial politics" I think it's important to know that there were always people who opposed horrible things like colonialism or fascism. It undercuts the apologetic idea that people in the past just didn't know better or were "just a product of their time"
Ah that makes sense. Someone else had commented that just based on the title of the newspaper I might have misunderstood the context, thanks so much for going to the trouble of looking it up. The book I found it cited in talks about how its remarkable to see that sort of language used so long before the Holocaust, during a time when antisemitic hate crimes in Germany were relatively rare. I assumed the writer of the article was an example of that colonial mindset, looks like it's more like they were calling it out.
@@ChillGoblin Another thing about Germany that's unclear from the video is the concentration camps. The ignorance of US right-wingers on the subject is not only about concentration camps outside Germany, but also about _most_ concentration camps in Germany: the Nazis had only 6 death camps but literally thousands of concentration camps. In the latter, there were no gas chambers, but inmates were typically worked to the death; in most cases, facilitating arms production. Little-known fact: more people died in the production facilities for the V2 rockets than were killed by the rockets themselves. Also little-known fact: the involvement in arms production also made lots of concentration camp inmates & POWs victims of Allied bombing of German industry (for example, the artificial flood caused by the successful bombing of three dams by the Dambusters, whose myth is enduring in the UK, killed more of these slave labourers than German soldiers or civilians). Towards the end of the war, Nazis who hoped for a negotiated surrender to the Western Allies tried to cover their crimes by killing concentration camp inmates in death marches or mass shootings. (One of the most sickening episodes of this haphazard final killing spree was the Cap Arcona disaster: the Nazis marched the inmates of multiple concentration camps to the port of Lübeck where they had them board three ships, but before they could sink those ships, a British air raid "succeeded" in it, thinking it's a troops transport convoy.)
Precisely this. I am Afrogerman and never learned about colonialism in school. I only found out about it when I went to University and was so baffled by that or the fact that Robert Koch used to conduct medical experiments in the colonies. I started teaching classes at University and majority of my students pre BLM protests in 2020 did not even know Germany had colonies…and I had like 50 students who had come from various Bundesländern. It is truly disgusting how atrocities against Black people are always minimized or hidden.
@@athenasuperheldin1017 did yo ulearn about german terror adn policies agaisnt slavs whcih lasted for centuries.off coruse not.if some victims are minimised and compeltely ignored thsoe are slavs.even in ww2 when most of killed civlians wrre slavic they are still ignored.
Your point about development of further hierarchical structures in colonizing societies is spot on. I can attest that in Israel, where I grew up, the ethnical/racist hierarchy goes about as follows: Ashkenazi Jews (i.e. white Jews from Europe) at the top, then Mizrachi Jews (those whose ancestors came from Arab/Muslim countries) one step beneath, then black Jews, below them migrant workers and refugees - and at the very bottom Palestinians.
Phrenology & other pseudo-science were also used to subjugate the english poor.... There's a very interesting book on "scientific" racism called "Superior" by Angela Saini (she also wrote one called "Inferior", to debunk "scientific" sexism) But before these pseudo-sciences, WS was justified by the bible (black people supposedly beingdescendants of the tribe of Sham, if I remember correctly)
That is why Hitler is portrayed as the unthinkable, ultimate evil. Because he did in Europe what was being done in the colonies and you are not supposed to do that so oppenly.
Thought slime brought me back here. I'm subbed and I didn't even see it. So I'm commenting to appease the mighty algorithm and get this in front of more eyeballs. I think this is the best one yet.
8:45 "...racism is probably about as old as the first guy to get a tan..." feels a bit off. It feels like you're talking about someone with lighter skin getting darker in the sun, and as a species of African primate, our skin probably started out pretty dark, even before we lost our fur when we were definitely all dark skinned. I'm not a biology person, so I don't know that for sure. However, I do know that modern WS aims to position whiteness as default, and that throwaway line feels exactly like the kind of pitfall trap you may have fallen into. Otherwise, you've given me a lot to think about and I appreciate it.
Yeah that's a really good point, that joke makes it seem like we used to all be white. A couple people have mentioned not liking that joke for various reasons, I'll try to be more thoughtful in the future! Thanks for pointing that out :)
@@ChillGoblin um actually I’m pretty sure Chill Goblin is supposed to go on Rogan and Fox now and start a campaign to announce that he was “canceled”.. is this a “woke mob” that I keep hearing about?? No?? It was just two people working to improve the dialogue on the left and being considerate and working to stop WS that we are so used to we don’t even notice it.. I’m so confused.. it’s almost like the left isn’t just a bunch of people fighting to be most woke.. wtf is going on here, did the right wing lie to me??
Finding out that the early settlers in modern day Canada thought the indigenous people there seemed Irish suddenly makes some of the weird writing of Dragon Age make a lot more sense. I always wondered why those Canadians decided to conflate First Nations history with Celtic aesthetics to create the Dalish. And now, I know.
Around 10:41, I'm reminded of the kind of texts I've read from the regulations around the White Australia policy. One of the explanations for the Irish was that they were secretly a 'kind of n*groid,' and when they were deported here to Australia and got darker skin (because of the SUN), it was framed as 'their inner blackness emerging.' Similarly, the Welsh were classified as 'semi-ethnic,' because the linguistic roots 'couldn't be white.' That's right, Australia, as a country, was so racist, we weren't sure if the *Welsh* were white. And this isn't even getting started on the 'Native Americans are a kind of bird' argument.
Oh wow. Could you please tell me where I can find such texts? I mentioned Australian Colonialism in one of my classes and showed some immigration posters of the past that marketed it off to White English people. I would really like to read those texts and maybe discuss them in class too.
@@athenasuperheldin1017 I don't have any of the books on hand to reference, and it's been a while since I've been out of the class, but the resources you want to look up are the White Australia policy, the Literacy Test and a man named Egon Kisch, who became the center of a high court battle over the literacy test.
29:17 As an Australian, this made the words of Pauline Hanson (Leader of a fringe far-right party that doesn't have many policies that don't involve banning immigrants) echo in my head. She straight up said that the immigrants "Do not assimilate."
when were in hell and chill goblin drop their vids, my face fills with glee and i finally acheive the confidence i need to stand up to my neoliberal little sister
As a Brazilian historian adept of Decoloniality, I wish all gringos would watch this. Thank you so much. Viva Latinoamérica livre! Justice for the Global South! edit: you mentioned Galeano ❤️
The eyeballs send me, great vid, great artwork, great song :D Here in Germany we are still very bad at speakin about our colonial past and connecting it to our even more cruel nazi past. I think most Germans still like to think of facism as an anomaly and not as a problem rooted in problems that are in part existing in present Germany, too. I'm looking forward to more vids like this :)
There probably wold never be such thing as fascism if there were no colonialism. Fascism was next logical step taken by those nations who were unable to have or lost African colonies.
We must spread the word to the people, if the savages of the world do not learn the great teachings of dear leader Chill Goblin surly they will descend into crime, violence, and chaos, Dear leader Chill Goblin needs to help them and ensure some nice law and order and civilize them!! We need to set up some churches or schools to spread the glory of the Goblin
I suspect the reason Prager "University" focused so much on Gentile when giving their history of fascism is because they are cheerleaders for colonialism (well, provided the right countries are doing it), and would clutch pearls at what you stated here.
They like Gentile because he was partially influenced by Hegel, who also influenced Marx (forgetting that preety much the entirety of western philosophy after the 19th century was influenced by Hegel in some way). They also like to ignore that all the free market economists (Hayeck, Van Mises etc) were literal economical advisors to fascist regimes and that the word privatization was literaly created to describe Hitler's economic policies.
About to start this video, but one of the things that I remember best from a class on the Holocaust from my Polish professor who was a child at the time, that while people typically frame fascism and the Holocaust as some kind of “glitch” or a failure of civil society for any number or reasons, and thus the Holocaust being an act of great barbarism, she instead pushes back that the Holocaust is in fact the “natural” as in “logical” movement of what we have deemed to be “civilization.” Or, like many leftists have said about other systems before, it’s not a glitch, it’s a feature. Extending that to the rest of leftist conversations, I do personally think that some peoples over reliance on Marx and either unintentional, implicit, or open defense of the USSR or China become self-defeating foot-shots: because we don’t escape that European rationalist dichotomy through Marx, the same one that made the Holocaust a logical extension of industrialized German society in the first place.
olocaus and lbensraum are extension of centuries long german expnasionism,exceptionsim and anti slavism.its not glitch its consequence but not in your its exteinsion of rationalism cause extrme rationalsim liek i ncase of ussr whcih was also explcitily atheis and uberraional wanted cosompolitanism whcih is opposite to western racism only thing good about hoyl roman emorie is that germans were disunited in their goals of wreckign europe.
For the record I think this is an excellent video and I have no problems with it but it just got me thinking about how people outside of Europe tend to perceive it as more of a monolith than it actually is. Like, there are European countries that did not participate in colonialism. That's not to say that the people from countries that weren't colonial were somehow morally superior, generally they were just poorer and couldn't afford to go out there. But anyway, as a European it's something I thought about.
Great point! Some European countries were at times victims of European colonialism, like Ireland. I'm not super well versed in the intricacies of European history as a Canadian, but it's important not to think of entire continents as monoliths.
Special shout out to the Polish who fought for multiple revolutions with the goal of their own self determination. Shout out to Irish Nationalism inspiring Pan African Movements against colonialism, etc.
That's a side effect of american culture. Since people in the USA are homogeneous and speaks the same language they assume it's like that everywhere: everyone in europe speaks the same language and acts the same way, everyone in asia speaks the same language and acts the same, everyone in africa is the same... Americans try to say they are wildly different, but if you speak the same language over your entire continent you aren't. In europe you go a few hundred km and you it's a different country with a different language. Americans say "i went to europe" and don't understand that it's a continent with different countries, each one with a different language. "Europeans kiss strangers" is such a dumb thing americans say, but it's a thing that only some french people do to close friends and family. But americans love stereotypes i guess. And Europe has lots of internal dislike between different countries and cultures which is something most americans don't understand because they think discrimination is based on color. Irish people are white, but they weren't considered white. Racism is so dumb.
The Welsh, Scots and Britons were the first people colonized by the English. They were oppressed, brutalized, has their languages and cultures obliterated. But they made up a large bulk of the colonist labor force, often as convicts (prisoner slaves) like in Australia brought their against there will. Shit is complicated.
This was great. Thanks! And made me wonder: Could fascism just be a way of making members of an ingroup briefly believe they are immune to the effects of colonialism?
Capitalism fails, the working class and poor radicalize, and then the bourgeois libertine social liberal left alienates them, since the wealthy couldn't care less about their aspirations to start families or their necessity of coherent social and cultural norms which enable poor and working class people to trust and rely on one another, and so they pile into a hard right alternative. That's what fascism is. It's why its economic ideas often resemble what you find in some quarters of the socialist left but its social ideas are hard right, traditionalist, and conservative. That is exactly what you would expect to find if the problem was that right wing economic liberalizers had put them out of a job while the left wing social/cultural liberalizers had destroyed the traditional social norms that desperate people rely on for their individual well being. Not complicated. But it's impossible to see it if we're bourgeois social liberals or people who have adopted their ideas because we're not imaginative enough to subject them to criticism or think outside of their assumptions. And that is why you'll forever be confused about it, forever quaking in fear of imaginary people who believe imaginary things.
This video was a real eye-opener to me. Before, I knew of the terrible treatment of natives in European colonies, but I didn't ever draw any parallels besides the use of concentration camps. It's weird how colonialism doesn't often have the same evil connotations as nazism.
Germany actually tested out how effective concentration camps were in Namibia before the Holocaust. After they saw it was a success (around 80% of the ethnic group was eradicated) they brought that idea over to Germany and used it on Germans who did not fit the “German Identity”.
@@neelesh72868 white colonialism is losing and Israel is the proof of that...we now see with clarity that white racist elites are doing to other people lands ..we now can see the genocide of the Palestinians...we now see that America is supporting this...we the brown n black people of the world will not allow such injustice...
I have a „small“ correction: at 27:03 you say that Germany was the fourth largest colonial empire at the end of the 19th century. But you forgot to mention the Russian empire. The Russian empire was the second largest empire of the modern era, with the largest extent at 15.31% (!) of the world’s surface in 1895. It’s not like Russia became the world’s largest country today by coincidence… Like the German colonial empire the Russian one is often forgotten, but remember: it’s still colonialism, even if you don’t have to cross an ocean ;) (and with Alaska, the Russian empire even had overseas territories for some time) Still a good and obviously necessary video though.
OMG, this was amazing, I kinda jumped & cheered at the song at the end even though that might be crass. I totes subscribed and hit the bell icon, because your video was great. If anyone sees this comment, I also recommend the great 4-part documentary called „Exterminate All the Brutes”, by filmmaker Raoul Peck, where he also draws parallels between colonialism, genocide and facism and it is anger-inducing but oh so informative. he covers quite a lot of genocides all over the world.
Good shit bruh. Could’ve mentioned the concentration camps the US made in the Philippines though during the American Philippine War as well as Eco-Fascism and corporate fascism/corporatism. Where I’m at in New Orleans, our electric utility company Entergy keeps saying how they’re going to massively improve the grid and instead can’t even keep up with simple maintenance which leads to massive rust accumulation on their 4 electrical towers that feed power lines to the whole city which are then easily blown over by Hurricane Ida into the Mississippi River while the whole region is stuck without power in the worst summer month for us. Our local DSA chapter is trying to have the city government municipalize their bitch ass so they’ll stop screwing over the customers.
Honestly I genuinely enjoyed the Fascist song. Gonna be stuck in my head for days - specifically the weak but strong part. In return I offer you a humble comment, for the algorithm
Wowwee, another video! I just started doing some stuff, but that can wait. I'm so glad it's such a long one, too. You're making me quite happy with this, comrade! Love you and your vids, man!
Thanks for this video. I'm of first nations decent and I've been thinking almost the exact same things about Canada over the last year or so and I hadn't been able to articulate it all that well.
Actually,Sparta invented fascism or proto fascism: 1.they were the inventors of eugenics 2.children were recruited 3.They oppressed non Spartans(and enslaved them) 4.they were imperialists 5.state basically had total control over everything,including family 6.they were ultra-militaristic
If anyone wants to read some true stories of concentration camps to give themselves nightmares, look up the island off the coast of Namibia where over half of the indigenous population died within a year due to overcrowding circa 1910. --Edit-- he got to it at the 24:00 mark!
look at croatian concertiao cmaps in ww2.most inamtes were killed with cold weapons with guards making competition in who can kill more people in day.Hundreds of thsouands people were kileld but this is forgotten casue victims are slavs and worsee yet russia friendly slavs
So I watched this a couple of days ago and, having mulled over it... If we define fascism as the colonization of the state's own homeland, regardless of the precise features of that colonial process, in what way is neoliberalism not fascism? Or at least, the neoliberalism of the US, UK, and Commonwealth states like Australia, Canada, and New Zealand that elected to neoliberalize of their own accord; the neoliberalism of many other places like Iraq or Chile was very much a colonial project. Like, looking at the Eco list, points 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 are shoo-ins for neoliberal ideology, and 2 and 7 are at least debatably present, if less clearly so. Am I overreaching here? Or is the neoliberal hellscape we call home even more dire than we thought?
I don't think you're overreaching. Neoliberalism seems to be quite compatible with fascism. The CIA will often install fascist governments like Pinochet in Chile to enact neoliberal reforms. Privatization, a common neoliberal policy, was a term coined to describe something the Nazis were doing in Germany.
@@ChillGoblin I'm aware of neoliberalism being compatible with fascism precisely because of Pinochet (and also the Mont Pelerin Society who invented neoliberalism and worked to install him having members of the Nazi Party among their membership), hence why I mentioned Chile in my original comment. I'm more concerned with neoliberal ideology being *inherently* fascistic, given that its implementation be in some sense "home-grown" (though, again, Chile under Pinochet shows that this line between foreign colonialism and home-grown fascism can get pretty blurry, as we'd expect given the thesis of your video).
@Nicholas Time So I'd argue, but I haven't seen any specific support for the idea from the experts I've asked. Though the fact that nobody's told me I'm wrong in arguing this is plenty concerning in itself.
While neoliberalism happily supports colonialism, it doesn't match some of Eco's list. For example, #3 Fascism is anti-intellectual and anti-rationalist while liberalism portrays itself as hyper-rationalist (e.g. the public perception that mainstream economics is objective). #5 and #12, Neoliberalism imagines itself to be progressive (even while actually keeping migrants in camps). You could argue that neoliberalism is fascism that disguises itself with some surface-level progressivism. Or you could argue that it's fascism without any local anti-capitalist opposition, so it doesn't need to kill as many locals to gain and maintain power.
watching this thinking, "am I Chill Goblin's target audience?" lmao -- this was hilarious and really well put together. helps to reframe history in this way. great stuff!
Here's mine own definition of fascism I've been working on: "A form of statecraft where power, resources, and protection are continually consolidated into a smaller and smaller demographic proportion of the controlled territory." I think that this definition acknowledges the temporary disruptive power of these regimes, but also illustrate how these states are designed to exploit and oppress the vast majority of their population. It also suggests that these regimes are not designed for longevity, rather, they are better suited for reactionary, supremacist movements.
24:50 Interestingly I happened to learn about the Imperial State of Germany's era of colonization as I really love an anime called Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 and wanted to explain the Nazi allegory (then literality) wasn't a singular anomaly in a vacuum. FMA:B and manga fans this also applies to those versions but this overall systemic issue is much less of a focus. Yes I use my fav animu as a Trojan horse for various topics and I don't care as it seems to work sometimes at least face to face lol.
There is a lot of praise for this piece of art one might utter. I especially approve of the return of end credits to RUclips - incl. an end credit song - assumedly specially produced ;) - prolonging the vision of the piece of art just viewed. Genius. Everybody: Watch til the end! Thanks.
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Never forget that the Nazis were actually pretty popular in a lot of other Western countries until the war actually broke out. Their ideology really wasn’t so far from the prevailing colonialist one as a lot of people like to think.
Nazis were not Fascist though. They were ideologically different, though allies none the less out of circumstance. For example. Italian Fascism was literally built on the foundation of Marxist Syndicalism, though abandoned Internationalism, and Adopted Nationalism. They abandoned Marx's Class Theory of HIstory as well, so abandoned Syndicalism and adopted Corporatism which believed in bringing owners and workers together by making them all join Corporations within their industrial sectors of society, which itself also a branch of Syndicalism at least modern Corporatism from the mid 19th Century was. FASCISM literally means Trade Unionism, it's the actual Translation of the Name Fascism in from Italian as the name Fasci and Fascio were commonly used in Italy for Trade Union.
The correct definition of Fascism pretty much equals: National Corporatism, or National Trade Unionism. ie Trade Unionism for the Nation. It's the only time that Corporatism was practiced at a National level.
Where the Nazis differ is quite striking. Fascist didn't believe in Classism or Racism. Were as Fascist believed in using Nationalism and Corporatism to wipe out class distinction and bring all society together ie *Bundle of Sticks mentality* the Nazis adopted a purely Racist mentality, similar to Marxist Classist mentality. Were Marxist wanted to great a Worker's Utopia the Nazis wanted to create a Racial Community. This was literally in opposition to just about everything Fascism stood for as it's goal was to remove all Class/Group Distinction and unite everyone together under the Nation with Nationalism. While the economy itself was to be a Corporate State. Nazism wanted to flat out remove everyone from their community that wasn't of their race, and being race is a social construct it's very concept was in opposition to Fascism, even Mussolini considered race to be nothing but a feeling ie built almost entirely in the heads of people.
This ironically means that Nazism, actually has more in common with say the Soviet Union than it does other Fascist Regimes like the Fascist Party of Austria which the Nazis assassinated the leader or Fascist Italy. It's actually academic laziness that they're considered one in the same.
@@Alte.Kameraden Trying to argue that because certain self-professed attributes of ACTUAL FASCISTS makes them somehow not fascist is not even "academic laziness" - it is pure sophistry. AKA Bullshitting but with bigger words.
Which is befitting to someone defending fascist in such a "no true fascist" way - as the "ideology" of fascism is in itself BULLSHIT.
Any old (or new) ideological label popular at the time will do cause it is just an EXCUSE to get the masses to support the fascists' seizure of power, along with a war on "the other" to eliminate any opposition - culminating in "reinstatement" of some fictional golden age of empire and power, with fascists on the throne.
I.e. "Give us the power and we will right the injustice done to us all, punish the guilty and bring about the golden age of old."
It's a Ponzi scheme regime.
It takes the power of the masses, promises huge dividends, pays to some for a while while taking from others to support that transfer - but ultimately just gathers the investment of power in the hands of the schemer.
@@d3nza482 Then all Socialism is a Ponzi scheme, I know TIKHistory would make that claim, his most recent video on the 1918/19 revolution in Germany sums up how even Social Democracy is a joke. ruclips.net/video/pwJf8O1S6eA/видео.html
@@Alte.Kameraden Don't you have something better to do, like ironing your Allgemeine-SS uniform replica for inspection or complaining on Reddit about how modern degenerate culture has made women not respect your "game"?
@@tankermottind "All Socialism is Antisemitism." Josef Goebbels. If you know your Socialist history you'd understand why. But most only believe the religion preached to them. ruclips.net/video/eCkyWBPaTC8/видео.html < 107 sources, 351 citations. The National Socialist were real Socialist and it's pretty undeniable.
Sadly not included in that video as it's off the topic, but. The very concept of a Capitalist is built on the foundation of Antisemitism. Said youtuber does a breakdown of Marx's views on the subject. It is why the stereotypes of both are identical.
“I’m so white I hear car doors unlock around me at night” got me, not gonna lie lol
Haha glad you liked that one!
Yeah, that was good for a laugh. My wife and I recently took ancestry gene tests for fun, and to use her words, turns out I am "ridiculously, impressively white". Something like 96% from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and then the other 4% is Finnish and Scandinavian. If I go shirtless, the sun on my chest blinds people.
@@hughcaldwell1034 lol I'm the same. Don't know the exact numbers, but I'm around 10% German with the other 90% English, Welsh, and Irish. Basically as white as it gets
hit me like a damn truck lmao
@@hughcaldwell1034 I am 96 Iberian but I got 2 percent indigenous American and north African. You probably can tell which island I am from lol based on that info a very famous island in the cold war era
He just keeps doing it. In the most chill, almost coffee-shop singer manner, he just KEEPS doing it!!! The Goblin cannot be stopped
An unstoppable juggernaut of chillness
@@ChillGoblin you grok abuse, this warms my heart
Aw man I'm so glad you actually went through with writing the whole song, that was great
Thanks Birdee!
@@ChillGoblin is there somewhere we can get an isolated version of it?
@@ChillGoblin Echoing requests for ability to get the song in isolation - I sometimes come back just to listen to this song because it's silly-catchy but also I want to remember the list.
Agreed!
The song is a bop!!
I highly recomend Aimé Cesaire's "Discourse on Colonialism" and Rajani Palme Dutt's "Fascism and Social Revolution" to anyone who wants to deepen their knowledge of the relationship between Fascism and Colonialism.
"Discourse on Colonialism" truly rules, haven't checked out "Fascism and Social Revolution"! I'll have to give it a look
"... European history could only see the shame, crime and humiliation inherent in Nazism when applied to the white European population's colonialist strategies which 'until then had been reserved exclusively for the Arabs of Algeria, the coolies of India, and the blacks of Africa.”
This line lives rent free in my head.
@@Vhlathanosh
lol like european natonas serbians were not displaced and killed in europe beforehand .Germans also for cneturies descrimnated killed and subjugated slavic populaion.Eastern germany was slavivc.We can also talk about greeks-eurpena nation who were displaced by tursks or if we ar into whiteness armenians who are also annihilated by turks but are considered caucasions.
If you are into narrow whitness hitelr and nazism didnt touch so called true racist asians core so again this notion is not true.
jews were not considred white nor eruoepans by most and germnay had no etemrinaion or even enforced clonision plans for western europe.
so in short this is pretty poor notion analised more than first glance.
A completely different angle is the psychology/sociology of authoritarianism. I find that to be really helpful in understanding the why and how of fascism and Nationalism... And of course religion.
Bob Altemeyer's book The Authoritarians is free online too
Not a disagreement with the colonialism approach, but more of a complimentary way of looking at it
Thank you for talking about Hindu fascism in India. Those folks have been working to creating a kind of self victimhood that uses vocabulary used by progressives, such as Hinduphobia, which has managed to silence a lot of well meaning white people. What is happening in India is terrifying, and it just isn't being talked about the way it should be.
The good news is that the ultra side of the BJP will never always be amused, no matter the costs!
What's going on, exactly?
I don't know much.
@@funybirbman3813 india is ruled by a nationalist hindu party and their paramilitary offshoot, both of which their president modi is a member of. they are working on making anyone not a hindu a second class citizen. some of their politicians have openly backed a possible genocide on the non-hindu population. as usually, right wingers don't want to call it fascism, to avoid the negative connotations.
@@brainrottedindividual ...oh
That's pretty bad.
I would even agree that Hinduphobia is a thing but not in a country where far-right Hindus are in power. Same as Islapophobia is a real thing in the west and in India but not in Pakistan where right-wing Muslims are in power. The goal of the left is to end these divisions "end the vanity of nations, we have one earth on which to live" as the line goes in The Internatioanle.
There are almost as many English words for fascism as there are Inuit words for snow: nationalism, exceptionalism, chauvinism, colonialism, genocide...and business
Patriarchy…
Privatization
Australia has concentration camps too. I've been calling them that for years and the response i often get it "well,,theyre not..i mean...yeah tru".
the aus gov has been called out numerous times by the UN and similar bodies, saying our immigration regime is a "crime against humanity" and yet the UN doesnt actually do anything about it.
Ooooof. Did not know that but not surprising.
@@ChillGoblin great informative video btw! love your presentation style and humour :)
the UN sadly doesn't do anything about.. well, anything. That's the problem when you give five nations with wildly different goals Veto powers on everything
@@ChillGoblin If you or anyone else is interested in a book that discusses the brutal bordering regimes from australia and other countries, as well as connects the process of bordering to capitalist-colonialism, I HIGHLY recommend reading "Border and Rule" by Harsha Walia!! It is an incredibly important book that came out this year.
I think the fact that Greece and Italy have routinely drowned refugees to keep them from their shores is solid proof the UN has no interest in human rights if it doesn't serve a geopolitical agenda for it's largest members.
I'd never guess that Irish Jesus would have such fascinating things to say about the links between fascism and colonialism.
I'm new here too
Currently furiously bingeing
Irish Jesus was definitely up to some redacted balaclava stuff in Belfast in the 90’s
super refreshing to hear canada described accurately, for once.
I know right?
Im a half-german (half-arab) historian and the chapter on germany was FREAKIN EXCELLENT.
Even at german universities, we rarely talk about colonialism - it's always presented with this naive wide-eyed "wow i only just found out about this!! Did you know???" tone.
We even still have some streets in Berlin named after colonial generals! (For context, the nazis have of course been removed from street names, which to be clear is a VERY good thing)
(I would, in the spanish gold section, slightly warn against using the modern qualifier 'germany', since the united nation didn't even exist until like the mid-19th century? but the message remains, german families & federal states benefited vastly from other european colonialism)
Well, the most agregious Nazis were removed, but many Nazi Names were not. There is a recent study showing that in Berlin alone there are thousands of names with antisemitic connotations.
@@chana7276 host of historcialy "great" europeans werre antimesemites.
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host of people were anteemsetic not just nazis.
The most Ironic is that my country, the Netherlands, went back to Indonesia after WOII to reclaim the country as our property. That people could not see the hypocrisy really baffles me.
Damn!
@@ChillGoblinAustralian dock workers went on strike to protest loading weapons onto Dutch ships after wwii for that exact purpose iirc.
Damn, i recently watched hbomberguys video on plagarism, and i got mad paranoid that every video essay channel might be plagiarizing, you got a very unique take and coloquial writing style, and the way you so cleanly citing your sources, got me at ease
As a German, we learned basically nothing about our colonial history in high school. Most of our focus is on the Nazis, while most of our textbooks don't even mention our colonial history.
Also, yes, Germany did apologize for the genocide to the Herero & Nama people. Our politicians are calling it a genocide as well and finally, after 6 years of negotiations paid some money to Namibia in 2021 and we are also finally considering to return some of the many stolen objects. However, while german politicians apologizzed and paid (a relatively small) amount of money, Germany never legally called it a genocide (despite what most news articles on it would make you believe) and the few millions went to the Namibian state, not the Herero & Nama people and can not be considered reparations at all.
Edit: For further information, check out my reply to this comment
Just wanted to add the bit of knowledge that I had on the subject, the video is great and I actually learned quite a lot. Keep up the great work!
Thanks for your insight! I'm so curious about exactly where that money is going in Namibia. Agree that it definitely can't be called reparations unless it's going directly to the people affected by the genocide. From what I understand the money will be given in smaller amounts over the next 30 years.
Something that is glossed over in most treatments of WW2 is that Hitler's war in Europe was precisely and exactly a colonial war. His plan was to conquer and subjugate the subhumans of the Soviet Union and set up US style plantations and settlements with the local people as slave labour.
@@ChillGoblin The problem with this deal is that it is an inter-state negotiation, with the affected Herero and Nama representatives not part of the discussions. The money is not for those wjho suffered from and continue to live with the after effects of the genocide, but is given to the state of Namibia, who will (hopefully in tandem with the Herero and Nama communities) ultimately decide what to do with it.
Learn from your failures,so you don't make the same mistake twice boykie...
They did not pay money. They offered to pay 10 million euros (which was supposed to be paid to German corporations in Namibia over the course of 30 YEARS!!) but that was rejected by Namibia and seen as an insult to the victims. A friend of mine went to this school that was planning on getting renovated….and they paid 25 million euros for the school renovations. So if a school can pay 25 million for renovations the Federal Government can only pay 10 million for genocide that eradicated 80% of an ethnic group? I am an Afrogerman btw and I too NEVER learned about our colonial history all throughout school.
I unlocked my car door on impulse as soon as I seen you!
This happens a lot
Great video! I think the relationship between fascism and colonialism is so obvious it is weird how overlooked it is a lot of the time. Especially how German genocides in Africa were somewhat of a trial run for the Holocaust
Just one thing, I think you misunderstood the article you quote at 28:40 somewhat. "Vorwärts" was the party newspaper of the social democrats, one of the only great parties in Germany at the time who opposed colonialism. I went to the online archives and read the entire thing.
It doesn't really blame Jews for colonial crimes, it rather compares the the antisemitism of right wing Germans to their racism against Africans. Overall, it is very clear in its disdain for german colonialism and antisemitism, calling one politicians deeds "abhorrent crimes of this christian-germanic apostle of colonial politics"
I think it's important to know that there were always people who opposed horrible things like colonialism or fascism. It undercuts the apologetic idea that people in the past just didn't know better or were "just a product of their time"
Ah that makes sense. Someone else had commented that just based on the title of the newspaper I might have misunderstood the context, thanks so much for going to the trouble of looking it up.
The book I found it cited in talks about how its remarkable to see that sort of language used so long before the Holocaust, during a time when antisemitic hate crimes in Germany were relatively rare.
I assumed the writer of the article was an example of that colonial mindset, looks like it's more like they were calling it out.
@@ChillGoblin Another thing about Germany that's unclear from the video is the concentration camps. The ignorance of US right-wingers on the subject is not only about concentration camps outside Germany, but also about _most_ concentration camps in Germany: the Nazis had only 6 death camps but literally thousands of concentration camps. In the latter, there were no gas chambers, but inmates were typically worked to the death; in most cases, facilitating arms production. Little-known fact: more people died in the production facilities for the V2 rockets than were killed by the rockets themselves. Also little-known fact: the involvement in arms production also made lots of concentration camp inmates & POWs victims of Allied bombing of German industry (for example, the artificial flood caused by the successful bombing of three dams by the Dambusters, whose myth is enduring in the UK, killed more of these slave labourers than German soldiers or civilians).
Towards the end of the war, Nazis who hoped for a negotiated surrender to the Western Allies tried to cover their crimes by killing concentration camp inmates in death marches or mass shootings. (One of the most sickening episodes of this haphazard final killing spree was the Cap Arcona disaster: the Nazis marched the inmates of multiple concentration camps to the port of Lübeck where they had them board three ships, but before they could sink those ships, a British air raid "succeeded" in it, thinking it's a troops transport convoy.)
Aye, that article definitely seemed like it was pretty satirical.
Precisely this. I am Afrogerman and never learned about colonialism in school. I only found out about it when I went to University and was so baffled by that or the fact that Robert Koch used to conduct medical experiments in the colonies. I started teaching classes at University and majority of my students pre BLM protests in 2020 did not even know Germany had colonies…and I had like 50 students who had come from various Bundesländern. It is truly disgusting how atrocities against Black people are always minimized or hidden.
@@athenasuperheldin1017
did yo ulearn about german terror adn policies agaisnt slavs whcih lasted for centuries.off coruse not.if some victims are minimised and compeltely ignored thsoe are slavs.even in ww2 when most of killed civlians wrre slavic they are still ignored.
Your point about development of further hierarchical structures in colonizing societies is spot on. I can attest that in Israel, where I grew up, the ethnical/racist hierarchy goes about as follows: Ashkenazi Jews (i.e. white Jews from Europe) at the top, then Mizrachi Jews (those whose ancestors came from Arab/Muslim countries) one step beneath, then black Jews, below them migrant workers and refugees - and at the very bottom Palestinians.
Yes I have heard that Cochin Jews hailing from the Indian state of Kerala finds it difficult to assimilate into society there in Israel.
So free Palestine
Phrenology & other pseudo-science were also used to subjugate the english poor....
There's a very interesting book on "scientific" racism called "Superior" by Angela Saini (she also wrote one called "Inferior", to debunk "scientific" sexism)
But before these pseudo-sciences, WS was justified by the bible (black people supposedly beingdescendants of the tribe of Sham, if I remember correctly)
Great points here!
@@ChillGoblin thanx!
I thought it was the descendants of Cain because he had been "marked," and the mark was supposed to have been black skin...?
@@joeknowles6880 I think that was mormon canon for a while?
“Mismeasure of Man” is also a good refutation of the scientific racism used to justify all manner of sins.
That is why Hitler is portrayed as the unthinkable, ultimate evil. Because he did in Europe what was being done in the colonies and you are not supposed to do that so oppenly.
what stupidity-mass slaughter has happened before in european hsitory including mass slughter of jews.Hitler added industrial element to it.
Shout out to Thought Slime for directing me here. This is superb , just great and informative content well presented . I have subscribed .
Thought slime brought me back here. I'm subbed and I didn't even see it. So I'm commenting to appease the mighty algorithm and get this in front of more eyeballs. I think this is the best one yet.
8:45 "...racism is probably about as old as the first guy to get a tan..." feels a bit off. It feels like you're talking about someone with lighter skin getting darker in the sun, and as a species of African primate, our skin probably started out pretty dark, even before we lost our fur when we were definitely all dark skinned. I'm not a biology person, so I don't know that for sure. However, I do know that modern WS aims to position whiteness as default, and that throwaway line feels exactly like the kind of pitfall trap you may have fallen into.
Otherwise, you've given me a lot to think about and I appreciate it.
Yeah that's a really good point, that joke makes it seem like we used to all be white. A couple people have mentioned not liking that joke for various reasons, I'll try to be more thoughtful in the future! Thanks for pointing that out :)
@@ChillGoblin um actually I’m pretty sure Chill Goblin is supposed to go on Rogan and Fox now and start a campaign to announce that he was “canceled”.. is this a “woke mob” that I keep hearing about?? No?? It was just two people working to improve the dialogue on the left and being considerate and working to stop WS that we are so used to we don’t even notice it.. I’m so confused.. it’s almost like the left isn’t just a bunch of people fighting to be most woke.. wtf is going on here, did the right wing lie to me??
This is probably the best video about fascism on youtube
Finding out that the early settlers in modern day Canada thought the indigenous people there seemed Irish suddenly makes some of the weird writing of Dragon Age make a lot more sense. I always wondered why those Canadians decided to conflate First Nations history with Celtic aesthetics to create the Dalish. And now, I know.
Around 10:41, I'm reminded of the kind of texts I've read from the regulations around the White Australia policy. One of the explanations for the Irish was that they were secretly a 'kind of n*groid,' and when they were deported here to Australia and got darker skin (because of the SUN), it was framed as 'their inner blackness emerging.' Similarly, the Welsh were classified as 'semi-ethnic,' because the linguistic roots 'couldn't be white.' That's right, Australia, as a country, was so racist, we weren't sure if the *Welsh* were white. And this isn't even getting started on the 'Native Americans are a kind of bird' argument.
Oh wow. Could you please tell me where I can find such texts? I mentioned Australian Colonialism in one of my classes and showed some immigration posters of the past that marketed it off to White English people. I would really like to read those texts and maybe discuss them in class too.
@@athenasuperheldin1017 I don't have any of the books on hand to reference, and it's been a while since I've been out of the class, but the resources you want to look up are the White Australia policy, the Literacy Test and a man named Egon Kisch, who became the center of a high court battle over the literacy test.
Everything about this is perfect and good. Chill Goblin album, when?
Hahaha thank you 🙏 See if I can get some studio time
Any discussion of Fascism/fascism is incomplete without discussing Colonialism. Thank you
😂 man said he hear car doors unlock. Bruh.
Love the early George Carlin vibe, whether intentional or otherwise. And, you know, the content too.
Hippy Dippy weatherman is my style icon
"Mostly dark overnight, with scattered light around morning."
This was brilliant, one of my faves so far!
Thanks so much Ponderful!
29:17 As an Australian, this made the words of Pauline Hanson (Leader of a fringe far-right party that doesn't have many policies that don't involve banning immigrants) echo in my head. She straight up said that the immigrants "Do not assimilate."
I'm honestly so glad the song made it into the video lmao
Haha thanks for watching the whole way through!
I hear a tiny bit of Jack Nicholson in your voice, blessed be the Eyeballs
when were in hell and chill goblin drop their vids, my face fills with glee and i finally acheive the confidence i need to stand up to my neoliberal little sister
Godspeed comrade, may your little sister renounce her ways
Eyeballs directed me here. I appreciate it. And am happy that the full 14 traits of fascism song did show up in the end.
Was is featured in the Eyeball zone. 🤣
As a Brazilian historian adept of Decoloniality, I wish all gringos would watch this. Thank you so much.
Viva Latinoamérica livre! Justice for the Global South!
edit: you mentioned Galeano ❤️
Never use the word "decoloniality" ever again. Thanks.
Solidarity
this Goblin's videos really are criminally underrated even now... im rewatching this and it's just so real
The eyeballs send me, great vid, great artwork, great song :D
Here in Germany we are still very bad at speakin about our colonial past and connecting it to our even more cruel nazi past. I think most Germans still like to think of facism as an anomaly and not as a problem rooted in problems that are in part existing in present Germany, too.
I'm looking forward to more vids like this :)
Damn! I just clicked Anasi's channel and saw ya face - I was like, I know him! Didn't even realize you made tings bredda. I love your format!
Haha thanks man, right back atcha! Us green screen youtubers gotta stick together
My most satisfying subscription, all your videos slap.
Thanks so much! Call me Slappy!
There probably wold never be such thing as fascism if there were no colonialism. Fascism was next logical step taken by those nations who were unable to have or lost African colonies.
Fascism, when colonialism is brought against the colonizers.
Another great vid! This channel needs to be bigger. Tell your kids, tell your wife, tell your husband because this is a crime!
When I am fascist dictator it WILL be a crime to not be subscribed
We must spread the word to the people, if the savages of the world do not learn the great teachings of dear leader Chill Goblin surly they will descend into crime, violence, and chaos, Dear leader Chill Goblin needs to help them and ensure some nice law and order and civilize them!! We need to set up some churches or schools to spread the glory of the Goblin
I suspect the reason Prager "University" focused so much on Gentile when giving their history of fascism is because they are cheerleaders for colonialism (well, provided the right countries are doing it), and would clutch pearls at what you stated here.
I hope they got some pearls nearby when they watch this
They like Gentile because he was partially influenced by Hegel, who also influenced Marx (forgetting that preety much the entirety of western philosophy after the 19th century was influenced by Hegel in some way). They also like to ignore that all the free market economists (Hayeck, Van Mises etc) were literal economical advisors to fascist regimes and that the word privatization was literaly created to describe Hitler's economic policies.
I knew I'd want to subscribe when you started singing about the defining features of fascism... Came here from the eyeball zone!
About to start this video, but one of the things that I remember best from a class on the Holocaust from my Polish professor who was a child at the time, that while people typically frame fascism and the Holocaust as some kind of “glitch” or a failure of civil society for any number or reasons, and thus the Holocaust being an act of great barbarism, she instead pushes back that the Holocaust is in fact the “natural” as in “logical” movement of what we have deemed to be “civilization.” Or, like many leftists have said about other systems before, it’s not a glitch, it’s a feature.
Extending that to the rest of leftist conversations, I do personally think that some peoples over reliance on Marx and either unintentional, implicit, or open defense of the USSR or China become self-defeating foot-shots: because we don’t escape that European rationalist dichotomy through Marx, the same one that made the Holocaust a logical extension of industrialized German society in the first place.
olocaus and lbensraum are extension of centuries long german expnasionism,exceptionsim and anti slavism.its not glitch its consequence but not in your its exteinsion of rationalism cause extrme rationalsim liek i ncase of ussr whcih was also explcitily atheis and uberraional wanted cosompolitanism whcih is opposite to western racism
only thing good about hoyl roman emorie is that germans were disunited in their goals of wreckign europe.
The eyeballs sent me here. So glad they did!
For the record I think this is an excellent video and I have no problems with it but it just got me thinking about how people outside of Europe tend to perceive it as more of a monolith than it actually is. Like, there are European countries that did not participate in colonialism. That's not to say that the people from countries that weren't colonial were somehow morally superior, generally they were just poorer and couldn't afford to go out there. But anyway, as a European it's something I thought about.
Great point! Some European countries were at times victims of European colonialism, like Ireland. I'm not super well versed in the intricacies of European history as a Canadian, but it's important not to think of entire continents as monoliths.
Special shout out to the Polish who fought for multiple revolutions with the goal of their own self determination. Shout out to Irish Nationalism inspiring Pan African Movements against colonialism, etc.
That's a side effect of american culture. Since people in the USA are homogeneous and speaks the same language they assume it's like that everywhere: everyone in europe speaks the same language and acts the same way, everyone in asia speaks the same language and acts the same, everyone in africa is the same...
Americans try to say they are wildly different, but if you speak the same language over your entire continent you aren't. In europe you go a few hundred km and you it's a different country with a different language.
Americans say "i went to europe" and don't understand that it's a continent with different countries, each one with a different language. "Europeans kiss strangers" is such a dumb thing americans say, but it's a thing that only some french people do to close friends and family. But americans love stereotypes i guess.
And Europe has lots of internal dislike between different countries and cultures which is something most americans don't understand because they think discrimination is based on color. Irish people are white, but they weren't considered white. Racism is so dumb.
The Welsh, Scots and Britons were the first people colonized by the English. They were oppressed, brutalized, has their languages and cultures obliterated. But they made up a large bulk of the colonist labor force, often as convicts (prisoner slaves) like in Australia brought their against there will. Shit is complicated.
@@Saktoth what about the Cornish and the Manx?
This was great. Thanks! And made me wonder: Could fascism just be a way of making members of an ingroup briefly believe they are immune to the effects of colonialism?
Totally. One of the most fertile grounds for fascism to develop is in an empire in decline.
Capitalism fails, the working class and poor radicalize, and then the bourgeois libertine social liberal left alienates them, since the wealthy couldn't care less about their aspirations to start families or their necessity of coherent social and cultural norms which enable poor and working class people to trust and rely on one another, and so they pile into a hard right alternative. That's what fascism is. It's why its economic ideas often resemble what you find in some quarters of the socialist left but its social ideas are hard right, traditionalist, and conservative. That is exactly what you would expect to find if the problem was that right wing economic liberalizers had put them out of a job while the left wing social/cultural liberalizers had destroyed the traditional social norms that desperate people rely on for their individual well being.
Not complicated. But it's impossible to see it if we're bourgeois social liberals or people who have adopted their ideas because we're not imaginative enough to subject them to criticism or think outside of their assumptions. And that is why you'll forever be confused about it, forever quaking in fear of imaginary people who believe imaginary things.
This video was a real eye-opener to me. Before, I knew of the terrible treatment of natives in European colonies, but I didn't ever draw any parallels besides the use of concentration camps. It's weird how colonialism doesn't often have the same evil connotations as nazism.
Germany actually tested out how effective concentration camps were in Namibia before the Holocaust. After they saw it was a success (around 80% of the ethnic group was eradicated) they brought that idea over to Germany and used it on Germans who did not fit the “German Identity”.
History is written by the victors. Fascism lost, but colonialism has been winning for over 500 years.
@@neelesh72868 white colonialism is losing and Israel is the proof of that...we now see with clarity that white racist elites are doing to other people lands ..we now can see the genocide of the Palestinians...we now see that America is supporting this...we the brown n black people of the world will not allow such injustice...
You've got some fine vids, young man. Really looking forward to more.
Came from the Eyeballs, stayed and subbed for the content! Nice work, my man.
love your style of videos!! keep it up! i hope the algorithm is kind!
I am all for the idea of officially making "Hitle" a verb
Grest video! Great recommendations!
Hopefully you can take that stand up bit on the road sooner than later 🤣
Haha if there's one joke topic people in the small towns love to hear it's analyzing whiteness!
I don't really have anything to add, other than engagement. Great video my dude, so happy Thought Slime sent me over here!
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I had no idea who you were prior to this and why this was even recommended but I'm glad it was great video comrade.
Thank you, and thanks to comrade algorithm!
I have a „small“ correction: at 27:03 you say that Germany was the fourth largest colonial empire at the end of the 19th century. But you forgot to mention the Russian empire. The Russian empire was the second largest empire of the modern era, with the largest extent at 15.31% (!) of the world’s surface in 1895. It’s not like Russia became the world’s largest country today by coincidence…
Like the German colonial empire the Russian one is often forgotten, but remember: it’s still colonialism, even if you don’t have to cross an ocean ;) (and with Alaska, the Russian empire even had overseas territories for some time)
Still a good and obviously necessary video though.
Good point!
I've been going through the comments on this video and you really are THE chillest goblin ever. I'm definitely gonna check out more of your work. :D
OMG, this was amazing, I kinda jumped & cheered at the song at the end even though that might be crass. I totes subscribed and hit the bell icon, because your video was great. If anyone sees this comment, I also recommend the great 4-part documentary called „Exterminate All the Brutes”, by filmmaker Raoul Peck, where he also draws parallels between colonialism, genocide and facism and it is anger-inducing but oh so informative. he covers quite a lot of genocides all over the world.
You earned my sub with the 1-2 combo of the grinch gag and the sativa/indica joke
This so great. Sincerely. Amazing job.
Thanks so much!
underrated channel. needs more subs for sure!
Woah, highly informative and great vibes as always.
Thanks so much :)
Do more videos. Please. This channel is dope. The good kind ✌🏼
"I'm so white I went on vacation and everyone called me a gringo... I was in Norway..." XD
I'm so glad I have found this channel.
Good shit bruh. Could’ve mentioned the concentration camps the US made in the Philippines though during the American Philippine War as well as Eco-Fascism and corporate fascism/corporatism. Where I’m at in New Orleans, our electric utility company Entergy keeps saying how they’re going to massively improve the grid and instead can’t even keep up with simple maintenance which leads to massive rust accumulation on their 4 electrical towers that feed power lines to the whole city which are then easily blown over by Hurricane Ida into the Mississippi River while the whole region is stuck without power in the worst summer month for us. Our local DSA chapter is trying to have the city government municipalize their bitch ass so they’ll stop screwing over the customers.
Amazing stuff, thanks for the video!
My pleasure!
Honestly I genuinely enjoyed the Fascist song. Gonna be stuck in my head for days - specifically the weak but strong part.
In return I offer you a humble comment, for the algorithm
Thanks so much!
Wowwee, another video! I just started doing some stuff, but that can wait. I'm so glad it's such a long one, too. You're making me quite happy with this, comrade! Love you and your vids, man!
I absolutely love this channel
This is the single most important, concise video I’ve ever watched period
That song's GOOD. Thanks for the great video. I'm subscribing right now!
Yeah that section was a little cringe, but I still laughed. Anyways, here's a cookie for the algorithm.
Haha thank you for following my instructions exactly!
I think this is the first time ever I've been recommended a video by the Eyeball Zone that I'd already seen!! Still great video!
Hey! Your audio levels are better now! I noticed! Engagement!
This means a lot to me, thank you hahaha
Can't believe you did the song at the end that's awesome
Great video, Chill! Lots of Arrogant Worms vibes at the very end there, eh :)
Haha great compliment! Those guys are Canadian icons :)
@@ChillGoblin They're the best! Hoping the come out east again soon :)
These kind of video essays are so useful, and you explain these ideas so well. Instant subscribe!
Another great video, dude. Keep up the amazing work.
Thanks buddy!
Well damn, you went and actually did the song. Well played sir
Hell yeah a chill goblin video
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Great video, well thought out and I loved the song.
I never thought a song about fascism could be such an unequivocal bop, i love breadtube
Thanks for this video. I'm of first nations decent and I've been thinking almost the exact same things about Canada over the last year or so and I hadn't been able to articulate it all that well.
Actually,Sparta invented fascism or proto fascism:
1.they were the inventors of eugenics
2.children were recruited
3.They oppressed non Spartans(and enslaved them)
4.they were imperialists
5.state basically had total control over everything,including family
6.they were ultra-militaristic
That kinda just sounds like ethno-nationalism but I see your point
@@GangstaFred_528-CASH yeah,maybe it's both
@@Γι3ργ0ς yeah they are pretty much the same tbh
@JankyJohny not really,fascism can be globalist/world federalist[in the territorial/economicl sense) not in culture/society
A fantastic video and a good song, absolutely stunning work Gobblo!
Thanks Pinklin!
If anyone wants to read some true stories of concentration camps to give themselves nightmares, look up the island off the coast of Namibia where over half of the indigenous population died within a year due to overcrowding circa 1910.
--Edit-- he got to it at the 24:00 mark!
look at croatian concertiao cmaps in ww2.most inamtes were killed with cold weapons with guards making competition in who can kill more people in day.Hundreds of thsouands people were kileld but this is forgotten casue victims are slavs and worsee yet russia friendly slavs
That was quite informative. I'm glad I gave it a shot even though it's an older video. Thank you for sharing.
So I watched this a couple of days ago and, having mulled over it... If we define fascism as the colonization of the state's own homeland, regardless of the precise features of that colonial process, in what way is neoliberalism not fascism? Or at least, the neoliberalism of the US, UK, and Commonwealth states like Australia, Canada, and New Zealand that elected to neoliberalize of their own accord; the neoliberalism of many other places like Iraq or Chile was very much a colonial project.
Like, looking at the Eco list, points 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 are shoo-ins for neoliberal ideology, and 2 and 7 are at least debatably present, if less clearly so.
Am I overreaching here? Or is the neoliberal hellscape we call home even more dire than we thought?
I don't think you're overreaching. Neoliberalism seems to be quite compatible with fascism.
The CIA will often install fascist governments like Pinochet in Chile to enact neoliberal reforms. Privatization, a common neoliberal policy, was a term coined to describe something the Nazis were doing in Germany.
@@ChillGoblin I'm aware of neoliberalism being compatible with fascism precisely because of Pinochet (and also the Mont Pelerin Society who invented neoliberalism and worked to install him having members of the Nazi Party among their membership), hence why I mentioned Chile in my original comment.
I'm more concerned with neoliberal ideology being *inherently* fascistic, given that its implementation be in some sense "home-grown" (though, again, Chile under Pinochet shows that this line between foreign colonialism and home-grown fascism can get pretty blurry, as we'd expect given the thesis of your video).
@Nicholas Time So I'd argue, but I haven't seen any specific support for the idea from the experts I've asked. Though the fact that nobody's told me I'm wrong in arguing this is plenty concerning in itself.
While neoliberalism happily supports colonialism, it doesn't match some of Eco's list.
For example, #3 Fascism is anti-intellectual and anti-rationalist while liberalism portrays itself as hyper-rationalist (e.g. the public perception that mainstream economics is objective). #5 and #12, Neoliberalism imagines itself to be progressive (even while actually keeping migrants in camps).
You could argue that neoliberalism is fascism that disguises itself with some surface-level progressivism.
Or you could argue that it's fascism without any local anti-capitalist opposition, so it doesn't need to kill as many locals to gain and maintain power.
watching this thinking, "am I Chill Goblin's target audience?" lmao -- this was hilarious and really well put together. helps to reframe history in this way. great stuff!
Haha thanks buddy! I made this especially for you
thank u chill goblin
Thank u!
Love your videography. Really good style
Thanks so much!
may we raise this up to the great Alfred Gonna Rhythm that he may smile upon it.
He may or may not smile but he's definitely gonna rhythm
Here's mine own definition of fascism I've been working on: "A form of statecraft where power, resources, and protection are continually consolidated into a smaller and smaller demographic proportion of the controlled territory."
I think that this definition acknowledges the temporary disruptive power of these regimes, but also illustrate how these states are designed to exploit and oppress the vast majority of their population. It also suggests that these regimes are not designed for longevity, rather, they are better suited for reactionary, supremacist movements.
That song is absolutely glorious, can I spam it on Spotify please 😂
Haha wait, what does that mean?
@@ChillGoblin it means I would totally add it to at least one of my Spotify playlists to jam along to if it was available on there
Amazing video essay. I hope many more people have the opportunity to watch this.
Get on that, Oh Great Algorithm Master!
24:50 Interestingly I happened to learn about the Imperial State of Germany's era of colonization as I really love an anime called Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 and wanted to explain the Nazi allegory (then literality) wasn't a singular anomaly in a vacuum.
FMA:B and manga fans this also applies to those versions but this overall systemic issue is much less of a focus. Yes I use my fav animu as a Trojan horse for various topics and I don't care as it seems to work sometimes at least face to face lol.
1st time viewer & I walkaway with this quote ."Hitler wasn't the 1st Hitler who ever Hitled" excellent!
There is a lot of praise for this piece of art one might utter. I especially approve of the return of end credits to RUclips - incl. an end credit song - assumedly specially produced ;) - prolonging the vision of the piece of art just viewed. Genius. Everybody: Watch til the end! Thanks.