So the Pope doesn't live up to your fascist standards?
Said like a true Marxist …which just proves my point. Following the defeat of the Axis Powers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_Powers in World War II, the term fascist has been used as a pejorative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pejorative word, often referring to widely varying movements across the political spectrum. George Orwell wrote in 1944 that "the word 'Fascism' is almost entirely meaningless ... almost any English person would accept 'bully' as a synonym for 'Fascist'". Richard Griffiths said in 2005 that "fascism" is the "most misused, and over-used word, of our times". "Fascist" is sometimes applied to post-war organizations and ways of thinking that academics more commonly term "neo-fascist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-fascism";. Contrary to the popular use of the term, Communist states have sometimes been referred to as "fascist", typically as an insult. Marxist interpretations of the term have, for example, been applied in relation to Cuba under Fidel Castro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro and Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh. Herbert Matthews, of the New York Times asked "Should we now place Stalinist Russia in the same category as Hitlerite Germany? Should we say that she is Fascist?" J. Edgar Hoover https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover wrote extensively of "Red Fascism". Chinese Marxists used the term to denounce the Soviet Union during the Sino-Soviet Split, and likewise, the Soviets used the term to identify Chinese Marxists and social democracy (coining a new term of "social fascism"). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote : So the Pope doesn't live up to your fascist standards? I just got bored with the distraction as there was much more going on in the world last week. On 09/26/2015 11:54 AM, emptybill@... mailto:emptybill@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Seven Ways Pope Francis Slapped Conservatives in the United States By Ben Shapiro, 25 Sep 2015 Many conservatives viewed the prospect of the Pope’s visit to the United States with a mixture of hope and trepidation: hope, because the Pope’s visit would force heavy media coverage of religious issues; trepidation, because of Pope Francis’ mixed record on issues ranging from climate change to illegal immigration.
