See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Fascism
Not everybody agrees, but...
"Liberal Fascism
In the book, Goldberg argues that fascist movements were and are left-wing. He
claims that both
modern liberalism and fascism descended from progressivism,
and that prior to World War II, "fascism was widely viewed as a progressive
social movement
with many liberal and left-wing adherents in Europe and the United States".[2]
Goldberg writes that there was more to fascism than bigotry and genocide, and
argues
that those characteristics were not so much a feature of Italian fascism, but
rather of German
Nazism, which was allegedly forced upon the Italian fascists "after the Nazis
had invaded northern
Italy and created a puppet government in Salò."[3]
He argues that over time, the term fascism has lost its original meaning and
has descended
to the level of being "a modern word for 'heretic,' branding an individual
worthy of
excommunication from the body politic", noting that in 1946, the socialist and
anti-fascist
writer George Orwell described the word as no longer having any meaning except
to signify
"something not desirable".[4][4][5]"
[Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net]
1/7/2013
"Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen
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From: meekerdb
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Time: 2013-01-06, 20:51:07
Subject: Re: From nominalism to Scientifc Materialism Re: Is Sheldrakecredible?
Ipersonally think so.
On 1/6/2013 3:19 PM, Stephen P. King wrote:
On 1/6/2013 4:56 PM, meekerdb wrote:
On 1/6/2013 1:33 PM, Stephen P. King wrote:
On 1/6/2013 3:49 PM, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Stephen P. King
The word "must" implies forcible persuasion.
Hi,
But the use of force to persuade is not the essence of fascism. Fascism is
a governing system where the population can own property privately but the use
of said property is dictated by the State. Most countries are fascistic.
Only because you've taken a single attribute of Fascism and taken it to be a
definition. Fascism is the idea that a nation is a kind of super-being in
which labor, industry, and government are *bound together into one* (hence the
name) and the life of citizens takes meaning from how they serve their function
as an element of The State. This was further taken to imply that superior,
i.e. Fascist, nations should bring this superior culture to other inferior,
i.e. non-Fascist, nations by armed conquest.
Brent
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the
merger of state and corporate power."
--- Benito Mussolini.
--
Thank you, Brent, for this. ;-) I was trying to highlight the behavior of
fascism in ways that do not invoke extraneous discussion. All that you added,
while true, is irrelevant to my definition as it is representative of just one
form of fascism, that of Mussolini's Italy.
That's like saying Hitler's Germany was just one form of Nazism, or China 1945
to 1976 was just one form of Maoism.
Brent
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