Ahh, such bullshit. You think you're clever but you still think meme "Fascism". For starters: Fascism had nothing to do with the Catholicism. Nothing at all, and later the Italian Catholic armed resistance fought against it (and the German occupiers) after 1943 when the Germans also practically besieged Vatican. It was also not conservative, in the least, it was an explicitly revolutionary movement founded by a former Marxist journalist. Its core was the anti-capitalist economic system of corporatism, where everything was "for the state by the state", unlike in Poland where the companies are private and often foreign, and the country is an integral part of the global capitalist system. Poland is also not imperialistic or colonialistic or even just warlike which was the foundation of the Fascist foreign policy (to restore the Roman Empire). The party has no militia. There is nothing from Mussolini's thoughts being used in Poland in any way.
I like to call PiS Fascist lite, since they have no imperial ambitions. And you are right, catholicism and fascism aren't linked--but that was just an aside to my description. What matters is that they are nationalistic (which is good) and socialists (not good). The market economy of Poland is very nice, but there are unnecessary amounts of regulation as a funciton of the socialist side of the governance.
I've read the fascist manifesto, I understand that the original creed is the primacy of the state, but alas things have evolved a little and it now possible for parties to form in the grey spaces between pure expressions of one or the other political philosophy.
Ahh, such bullshit. You think you're clever but you still think meme "Fascism". For starters: Fascism had nothing to do with the Catholicism. Nothing at all, and later the Italian Catholic armed resistance fought against it (and the German occupiers) after 1943 when the Germans also practically besieged Vatican. It was also not conservative, in the least, it was an explicitly revolutionary movement founded by a former Marxist journalist. Its core was the anti-capitalist economic system of corporatism, where everything was "for the state by the state", unlike in Poland where the companies are private and often foreign, and the country is an integral part of the global capitalist system. Poland is also not imperialistic or colonialistic or even just warlike which was the foundation of the Fascist foreign policy (to restore the Roman Empire). The party has no militia. There is nothing from Mussolini's thoughts being used in Poland in any way.
I like to call PiS Fascist lite, since they have no imperial ambitions. And you are right, catholicism and fascism aren't linked--but that was just an aside to my description. What matters is that they are nationalistic (which is good) and socialists (not good). The market economy of Poland is very nice, but there are unnecessary amounts of regulation as a funciton of the socialist side of the governance.
I've read the fascist manifesto, I understand that the original creed is the primacy of the state, but alas things have evolved a little and it now possible for parties to form in the grey spaces between pure expressions of one or the other political philosophy.