Let's post some proto-fascist figures from history

None of them is even remotely fascists. For fascism you need a strong highly structured party. They are for the most part the kind of run-of-the-mill authoritarians or tyrants humanity has seen for millennia before fascism became a thing.

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Theocratic Fascism is terrifying

fucker was communist as fuck

>lol camel though eye of needle lol

Nope.

>defend the revolution and fight against old powers and tradition
>fascism

Taiping was just as much of a proto-ISIS as it was proto-fascist.

The trends of Fascism begin in the French Revolution, and you can legitimately see Fascism as a kind of universalized Bournapartism with it's 'radical center' position. Defending the 'revolution' against the 'old powers and tradition' is definitely in Fascisms standard operating procedure.

Fascism is not reactionary

More like GAYus Julius Caesar amirite

The strong centralized modern Nation State was born during the French Revolution.

Although I disagree with his assertion, he has a point.

Test

fight me, bitch

The Restorer of the laws, Juan Manuel de Rosas

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Thank you! Never heard of him before and he fits the bill perfectly

NAH

Fucking this.

There's a reason why the HWL has something to the effect of "Comrades shot by the Red Front and Reactionaries march in spirit in our ranks".

Fascism isn't a return to the old status quo, it's the establishment of a new status quo in which the state is above all.