On the issue of fascism, there's an interesting opinion article by Lewis Lapham in the current issue of HARPERS magazine. He argues that the US has the best facist system ever!
I disagree with his definition of fascism as authoritarianism (so that Stalin's USSR counts), but as usual, Lapham is fun to read. (I see fascism as instead being a form of capitalism, an authoritarian response to popular struggle, like in Jack London's dystopian novel, THE IRON HEEL.) Jim Devine
