This is to those who doubt that there is a full fledged fascism in Ethiopian currently under the Meles regime.
Forwarded to ER by Sioum Gebeyehou
Based on research by Dr. Lawrence Britt examining the fascist regimes of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Suharto and several Latin American regimes.
1. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of “need.” The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of
prisoners, etc.
2. Identification of Enemies / Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.
3. Supremacy of the Military
Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
4. Controlled Mass Media
Directly or indirectly the media is controlled by the government or by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespersons and executives.
5. Obsession with National Security
Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
6. Religion and Government are Intertwined
Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government’s
policies or actions.
7. Labor Power is Suppressed
Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.
8. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is openly attacked.
9. Obsession with Crime and Punishment
Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
10. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
11. Fraudulent Elections
Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates.
18 thoughts on “The 11 Key Defining Characteristics Of Fascism”
These characteristics fit the Meles regime perfectly.Thank you Elias for posting them.
The fortunes of African heads of state were published by French Weekly (May, 1997) and reprinted in the Nigerian newspaper, The News (Aug 17, 1998):
1. General Sani Abacha of Nigeria 120 billion FF (or $20 billion)
2. President H. Boigny of Ivory Coast 35 billion FF (or $6 billion)
3. Gen. Ibrahim Babangida of Nigeria 30 billion FF (or $5 billion)
4. President Mobutu of Zaire 22 billion FF (or $4 billion)
5. President Mousa Traore of Mali 10.8 billion FF (or $ $2 billion)
6. President Henri Bedie of Ivory Coast 2 billion FF (or $300 million)
7. President Denis N’guesso of Congo 1.2 billion FF (or $200 million)
8. President Omar Bongo of Gabon 0.5 billion FF (or $ $80 million)
9. President Paul Biya of Cameroon 450 million FF (or $70 million)
10. President Haile Mariam of Ethiopia 200 million FF (or $30 million)
11. President Hissene Habre of Chad 20 million FF (or $3 million)
12.Meles zenawi???
Name one traditional African leader who looted his tribal treasury for deposit in Swiss banks. Said Kwame Toure (Stokely Carmichael), former founder of the Black Panther Party in the United States, “[Modern] African leaders are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we’d be hard put to distinguish between them” (qtd in The Washington Post, April 8, 1998; p.D12.
The fact that the TPLF is a fascist organization is proven beyond a shadow of doubt. The regime of TPLF-Meles is ethno-fascist in nature and would not give up power volunarily. It will stay in power at any cost and tend to sacrifice its followers (mostly Tigres)for that matter. The fascists led by Meles Zenawi are blood thirsty and must be eliminated from the surface of Ethiopia and the world. Fascism does not accept dialogue and reconciliation and operates on the principle of control it all. Meles Zenawi has indoctrinated his Tigre followers with the fascist ideologies of ethnicity, supremacy and invincibility. That is why his followers accept and support any measures he takes including mass killings and gicing away of legal Ethiopian land.
Yes, this are the right identities of fascist regimes including Ethiopia
ኤልያስ ለምትሰጠን መረጃዎች እያመሰገንህ; መለስን የሚገልጹት እነዚህ ብቻ እንዳልሆኑና የቀሩትን ለመጠቆም እፈልጋለሁ:_
12-ውሸት{እልም ያለ ውሸት}
13-ተንኮል
14-ቂመኝነት
15-ቅናት
16-በራስ ያለመተማመን
17-ኣለማወቅ{ኣዋቂ ሆኖ ለመታየት በሰሚ ሰሚ ብቻ የሰማውን ይዞ በድፍረት በማያውቀው ጉዳይ መዘባረቅ::{ቦና ፓርቲዝም ትዝ ይላል}
18-ችኩልነት
19-ተንበርካኪነት……
እባክህ ወንድሜ የሱ ነገር እንዲህ በቀላሉ ተጽፎ አያልቅም::አታድክመኝ::
ይቀጥላል….
12. Ethno-cnetric prejudice
This characteizes the Ethno-fascists of Abay Tigray best as it was the best tool during the extrimination of Jews in Nazi Germany. This defining charatcteristic is at work in present day Ethiopia in all aspects – political, economic, soical and cultural. To the ethno-fascist, it is all about “correcting past imbalances” or “positive discrimination”. To us it is Ethno-centric fascism.
This exactly portrays Meles.
The other day, he was trying to justify to the rubber stamp MPs of Ethiopian parliament the reason for augmenting the defence budget by 500 million dollars is to feed the soldiers.
He was lecturing to them that soldiers have to be fed well and were not expected to defend the country with empty stomach. Ah, his lies will never end. Adkami neger.
Lack of understanding on the part of some opposition forces has hampered the struggle against ethno-fascism in Ethiopia. The method of struggle these opposition forces have devised is not effective and ethno-fascism is continuing to misrule the country. Their mere presence in the country is helping the ethnofascist Meles Zenawi to reap the benefits of foreign aid and support under the pretext of building a democratic system in the country. On the domestic front, the populace is in the mood of giving up the struggle because of lack of effective opposition leadership. The opposition in the country has not even been able to save Birtukan from the jaws of ethnofascism. This shows how weak and disarrayed the opposition in the country is. The fight for the release of Birtukan and other political prisoners id the task of all Ethiopians and others standing for democracy, freedom, respect of human rights and justice.
Release the heroine of democracy and human rights, Birtukan Midekssa and all other prisoners of conscience in Ethiopia.
#5.
Very good, personal character is also very important. Sometimes the system is bedeviled more by the individual at the top. The Woyane government will be much different if Meles is out of the scene.
Metasebia #8,
You stated the core problem and I agree.
The so called strength of the chest pumping tiny TPLF dictatorship is due to the hopelessly weak and eternally divided opportunist opposition groups. What can DICTATOR Meles who came to power by force alone do? Simply leave the palace and the power as to walk away because some unheard and unknown oppositions might be some where?
Come on folks! No dictator will ever walk away just like that from power because there are kittens in some corner mewing for left over milk.
All dictators were driven away from power ONLY by the organized 100% determined united force of the opposition.
Just look and reflect on how the so called opposition were reactively standing still like sitting fat ducks all through the Wayane proactive 2010 election that produced 99.6% for the TPLf and and only 1 seat for the opposition in a c country some 80 million population. Did the opposition lift its small finger in protest demanding democracy and the handing over of the stolen peoples’? You be the judge!
It is great shame for a country and people who constantly and endlessly BOAST of its historical Ethiopian patriotism that is only on paper as a form of mere make believe propaganda sketch making for the down town theater house money making just like Hailu Shawol, Lidetu Ayalew and co. currently building their own hotels under the protecting arms of Wayane and other businesses under the secure protecting arms the Wayane dictatorship only for their personal BIG bellies and that of the even BIGGER and bottomless Wayane supper bellies.
These and some of the other so called opposition characters are helping Wayane like a house slave to wash and launder the tremendous amount of Ethiopian stolen wealth and cash secured through cunning corruption criminal meanse.
For the workable opposition to emerge you need reorganization and soul searching in a new way if you want to defeat barbaric dictatorship. Or else we ONLY keep talking the empty talks like always.
Esaias is implementing those rules very well. Meles is is following suit, but in little more sophisticated manner.
Evrey thing that i read is exactlly the way things are in Ethiopia wright now.I donot need any explanation or information about ethiopia to be honest i am doing every thing i can to expose T:P:L:F and above all that I Contribute financialy for G7and ESAT and more i have done allways and i will do that for the rest of my life for as long as ethiopia is invaided by the most ethnocentric,Mafia and terrorist organization called (TPLF)led by the black Hitler(MELESE ZENAWI)And we all have to know we have to contribute finantially and get rid of tplf before it is to late.Victory to mother land ethiopia and death to tplf and Hodamoch.God bless Ethiopia.Nice article.
Genbot7 has to lead the way to liberation and welcome whoever wants to join.WE are wasting our time and prolonging our people’s misery by waiting for those who are not sure weather they are Ethiopians or not.
Free,
Thank you brother for your information. As you have indicated in your list, Meles is a refined leader and has not indulged himself in any form of corruption. What a clean and refined leader.
May he live longer so that the agony of Elias and his tattering vogabonds will live longer!!! Amen!!!
Meles # 9
a Pig is a Pig no mater how you drees it..Woyane is Woyane no matter who is on power.
so the only solution is to get reid of them entirely.
have you got information about TPLF? MELES CHOOSEN BY WEYANE A HEAD MASTER AND WILL LEAD TPLF FOR THE COMING YEAR. WHERE WE ARE? WE LEAD BY TPLF NOT ETHIOPIAN.
I am married to an Ethiopian woman and preety much follow Ethiopian politics. From what i understand so far, the current government in Ethiopia reflects those listed traits of fascism. I guess ethiopians have a fascist government in thier midist. Ethiopians have an honourable history in fighting Italian fascism. Well,fascism is fascism whether it is foreign or home grown. I stand with the people of Ethiopia to fight the current fascist government that has been ruining their life on a daily basis. Victory to the people of ETHIOPIA!!!!
FREE BIRTUKAN MEDEKSA
Brian #17
thanks for your support for our struggle to liberate our mother land Ethiopia from this fascist ruling our country into destruction. I think you may be the person i used to work for 1st in Palo Alto and Mountain View, California if i am correct. but any way i am not disclosing every thing so i will leave it at that.