Delusion, Greed, and Hate: Buddhism was the first Antifascism

I've divided fascism's common traits into three broad categories based on Buddhism's three poisons. The lists inside these categories are non-exaustive, just things off the top of my head, and many traits straddle the categories. They'ee sorted based on which category is most strongly aligned with the trait.

Delusion: newspeak, doublethink, impairment of cognition, malleability of history, popular elitism, anti-intellectualism(also hate), though terminating cliches, logical fallacies.

Greed: capitalism, laws don't bind the ingroup, slavery, obsession with power in general, elitism, hierachy, sexism(also hate), ingrouop supremacy, a catch all of "categorism" of greed elevating ingroups and hate denigrating outgroups.

Hatred: laws don't protect the outgroup, dehumanization, racism, general xenophobia, the enemy is both strong and weak(also delusion), contempt for the weak(also greed), hatred of subordinates.

I could go on for ages, the point is everything can be described in the terms of these three root causes. Delusion permeates everything as a necessary keystone to fascism as a broader steucture. It's why George Orwell singled it out.

It is impossible to effectively oppose any one of the three poisons without also opposing the other three. Failing in that results in things like fundamentalist religions being consumed by greed and hatred because of a refusal to examine delusion, and Richard Dawkins being consumed by delusion due to a refusal to examine his hatred.

Hatred is the cause of the bigot to weird bigot pipeline. Greed is why being rich is so deranging: greed and hatred are both powerful inroads for delusion, and then delusion reinforces the whole edifice in an Orwellian fashion. Delusion is the secret sauce used to protect greed, hatred, and delusion itself from noticing how horrible they are. This makes delusion very attractive to the greedy and hateful.

Properly recognizing all three of delusion, greed, and hatred as roots of evil is why Buddhism can keep producing revolutionaries when people actually engage with it with clear, undeluded eyes. As for how to dispell delusion, I have no idea how to do this. One of the central tenets of genralized delusion is to be maximally uncooperative with anybody who treatens delusions. Buddhism has a whole system for how to do this a cooperative subject, and it's already very hard in that case.

Every possible combo of two poisons is extremely synergistic and prone to traits that straddle the gap. Conservatism is the management of the three poisons by an elite aristocracy that tries to insulate itself from delusion while deliberately instilling it in the lower classes. The elites are inherently greedy, providing an inroad for delusion to corrupt the ruling structure and kickstart fascism: a movement that is thoroughly deluded, hateful, and greedy, and glorifies all three as positive traits that are worth cultivating. Doesn't help that having these traits is addictively fun for the victims if they're sufficiently delusional.

The sources I used to devise my general theory of fascism are all nearly the same thing I just wrote, just arranged differently.

It's worth noting that there's a certain word for organizations with the traits I've described: a cult.

1984 - George Orwell Ur-Fascism - Umberto Eco What Is Conservatism and What Is Wrong with It? - Phillip E. Agre The Wikipedia pages on Buddhist ethics and the three poisons. (I know, it's embarassing that this is as far as I've gotten so far, actually reading the Buddha's translated writings is at the top of my reading list.) A few youtube video on the BITE model of cults. (The BITE Model and Mormon Control is also sitting near the top of my reading list, already bought and sitting in my Kindle library.)