Jamil, we were leaving this thread drop. On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 07:36:51PM -0800, Brownson, Jamil wrote: > Wait a minute, are we not all mature adults and academics or at lest > readers, thinkers & writers? Why should we bed down with the unenlightened > radical frings who dredge up the sobriquet "Fascist" to heap on every man in > uniform or unsavoury political or plutocratic character? Fascism is a > particular type of corporate socialism, whereby the three fascii (pillars), > capital, labour & government agree to run society according to a compact. > Post WWII Italy's real organization seldom deviated from that model in > practice despite various swings between communist and rightist parties in > power. In Argentina under Peron it worked well for a while. But then > Italians are the majority ethnic group in Argentina. With Spain (Franco) and > Portugal (Salazar) you had a varient that involved the church as more the > glue binding the three together than a fourth pillar, albeit a rightest > glue. > > Of course National Socialist Germany was a failure compared to Italy as it > was too mechanical in its formation, one might think or Wilhelm Reich's work > on the Origins of German totalitarianism (exact title ???), which made a > good sociological analysis of the authoritarian persona within the family > structure where good German women nourished strong young warriors, like > Sparta. > > Does anyone else see correlations between culture and Mediterranean > politics, whether European, African or Asian? According to recent work in > archaeology and anthropology, corporatist societies, hence politics, may > have neolithic roots in Mediterranean and Western Asia worlds. > > jb > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rakesh Bhandari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 5:25 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PEN-L:20461] Re: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Afghanistan & > class > > > when i was off the list jim made comments that make his position > much more complex than i thought. i was going on the comments that > were in my in box. so jim if have misunderstood you, i apologize. i > guess the use of the word fascism is inflammatory...which of course > as jim says doesn't mean we should not use it when justified even in > a loose sense. > Rakesh >
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