"that there have
been other fascisms than Italian fascism, so the term
must have some more
general currency beyond the particularities of Italian
political history."
It sure does. The new, post-coup govt in Fiji is
dominated by the Taukei movement, which I think fits
the classic definition of fascism: a mass of workers
and/or peasants mobilised and led by disaffected
sections of the ruling class and petit-bourgeoisie
using racism and nationalism. PPl find it hard to
take, becuase we associate fascism with white skin,
but it's there for all to see. Quite frightening
really.
Cheers
Scott
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The Roman lictors carried faeces, sorry, fasces
(schoolboy humour, to go
with my schoolboy Latin): bundles of staves, or rods
for the people's
backs...
Fascism != Nazism? I can agree to that: two different
countries. Less a
nuance than a broad range of historical distinctions;
except that there have
been other fascisms than Italian fascism, so the term
must have some more
general currency beyond the particularities of Italian
political history.
Still, it's Nazism I know more about, having read
rather than burned a copy
of _Mein Kampf_ - amongst other things...
To Winifred Holtby, add Storm Jameson ("what nerve has
atrophied in the
torturer or, worse, is sensually moved?"), author of
_Swastika Night_.
- Dom
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"Why is it not possible for me to doubt that I have never been on the moon? And how
could I try to doubt it? First and foremost, the supposition that perhaps I have
been there would strike me as idle. Nothing would follow from it, nothing be
explained by it. It would not tie in with anything in my life... Philosophical
problems occur when language goes on holiday. We must not separate ideas from life,
we must not be misled by the appearances of sentences: we must investigate the
application of words in individual language-games" - Ludwig Wittgenstein
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