ethnic nationalism is already pretty horrible (especially when linked to settler colonialism). It doesn't need to be linked to either fascism or fundamentalism.
There is, however, a link between Sharon's secular Zionism (Jabotinsky-type Revisionist Zionism) and old-fashioned fascism. (I don't think Sharon embraces spiritual beliefs as much as he's a supremacist asshole.) On 8/25/05, Leigh Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ---- Original Message ---- > From: soula avramidis > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 10:58 PM > Subject: Re: [PEN-L] deep thoughts > > > Ultra nationlist seculars who think that their people transcend > > history are also fundemnetalist > > The belief in the group's historical trancendence is also a trait of fascism, > at > least when that trancendence is driven from the spiritual(however it is > ritualized) > beliefs of those Ultra Nationalist leaders. > > Leigh > www.leighm.net > -- Jim Devine "Economics is the study of money and why it is good." -- Woody Allen
