My reply to empty's post below was about how people use the fascist when
they mean authoritarian. But in his case he seems to embrace the true
meaning of fascism as Mussolini and Franco applied it. In the case
below the word "authoritarian" should have been used not "fascism".
Political activist Medea Benjamin also says people should not use
fascism because the public is confused about the term.
Similarly I find people use the term capitalism when they mean free
enterprise. Private and publicly held businesses are free enterprise
but private businesses don't engage in "capitalism" until they go public
and lose their soul in the process. Capitalism puts the emphasis on the
stockholder shifting it away from the customer. I think Adam Smith
would even say that is a unintended consequence and that the focus
should still remain on the customers which with good products allows the
company to grow and be profitable. Capitalism is merely a method of
financing growth.
BTW, I'm not talking through my hat as I as involved with a small
company that went public so experienced the process first hand.
On 09/27/2015 08:17 PM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
It [fascist] seems to have become another word like 'cult' that has
lost its particular meaning in over use.
Misuse of the word? This morning at the TM group meditation room for
meditators that is downtown in Fairfield there was graffiti written on
a printed notice about obtaining the new Meditator Badges pinned on
the board there by the door.
The printed notice read, “Meditator Badges.. The Invincible America
Department (IAD) is issuing badges for TM Meditators. This means that
Meditators can have a permanent badge to use to gain entry
tobadge-restrictedevents in the Dome or other campus venues, events
such as Maharaja's visits or special celebration days, rather than
seeking approval for each occasion. To obtain a Meditator badge you
may contact..”
Someone with an ink pen had circled the word, 'badge-restricted' and
drawing a line over to the side wrote, “Facsism”. Without an
explanation it is hard to know what was meant by the term, as these
excerpts below note about using the word, Fascist.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <emptyb...@yahoo.com> wrote :
So the Pope doesn't live up to your fascist standards?
*
*
*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.*
