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Yes, "fascist" is often used when "authoritarian" should be used. But I
don't think you are "authoritarian" but rather favor the magic
capitalists running the show instead of the people. Thus that makes you
a fascist because the meaning came from the situation of big business
taking over government to run a country. Ask Donald Trump about that.
On 09/26/2015 02:54 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
So the Pope doesn't live up to your fascist standards?
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*Said like a true Marxist …which just proves my point.*
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/Following the defeat of the Axis Powers
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_Powers> in World War II
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam> under Ho Chi Minh
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh>. Herbert Matthews, of the
New York Times <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_Split>, and likewise, the
Soviets used the term to identify Chinese Marxists and social
democracy <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy> (coining a
new term of "social fascism
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_fascism>")./
<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 <http://www.breitbart.com/author/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.*
