Re: The Fourteen Characteristics of Fascism
James Richard Tyrer <[email protected]>
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Daniel Cassidy wrote: > 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? > A point? You mean that you have to have a point to post something to this list? :-D > >>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. > In the US,' Communism' with an upper case 'C' is usually taken to mean USSR communism. And from context, that is what she meant. -- 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.