Re: The Fourteen Characteristics of Fascism

Daniel Cassidy <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.cafe
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On Saturday 17 May 2003 9:03 pm, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 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.

Umm, so what's your point?

> As Susan Sontag said: Communism is just
> Fascism with a human face.

Susan Sontag was either an idiot or you've cut the word 'Soviet' from the 
beginning of that sentence.

-- 
dan

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