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> Let's use the good ol political analogy: can > anindividual 'have' both (say) socialism and fascism? > Only if the words 'socialism' and 'fascism' lost all > real meaning, all connection to real life, for him. Hmmm. Nazi = National Socialist. Mussolini began as a socialist, and incorporated a lot of collectivist socialism into fascism. Mosley in England was the shining young man of promise in the Labour Party until he got impatient with Labour gradualism and started his fascist movement (and there's a good historical case, I gather, for believing that he only took up anti-Semitism opportunistically, at a late stage). In the thirties especially, there were quite a few people who flipped from communism to fascism or vice versa, ignoring any middle ground. I think the ideologies have quite a bit in common. George ______________________________________________ George Simmers Snakeskin Poetry Webzine is at http://www.snakeskin.org.uk %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%