Re: The Fourteen Characteristics of Fascism
James Richard Tyrer <[email protected]>
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Daniel Cassidy wrote: > On Thursday 15 May 2003 9:47 pm, James Richard Tyrer wrote: > >>If a fascist government has all of these 14 characteristics, this does >>not in any way mean that each of these 14 characteristics is >>indicative of fascism. In fact, some of them are indicative of Soviet >>Communism. > > > Umm, well what you loosely refer to as 'Soviet communism' pretty much was > Fascism in most respects. It certainly wasn't Communism. That is why I call it Soviet Communism; to distinguish if from real Communism (if that actually existed anywhere). And yes, it was Fascism. As Susan Sontag said: Communism is just Fascism with a human face. Although there is also the question of what real Fascism (Roman) is. -- JRT Kde-cafe mailing list - [email protected] http://ofb.biz/lists/listinfo.cgi/kde-cafe DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this mailinglist are the personal opinions of the author and do not represent OfB.biz: Open for Business, KDE or the author's employer.