......why on earth a country, its
people,
should want to have a King, a Queen, a Royal
family?
(in a country ruled over by one person, you might
be allowed to play " left" or "right"...
but the fact that you are conceptually subjected to
a monarchy, symbolizing one man's privilege,
one man's sovereign, doesn't devoid you choices of
any sense?
Shouldn't the seeking of men's liberty
through ideological doctrines
imply in the first place a denial of all
monarchical privileges of the Pharaoh ?
I find bizarre when I hear comments such as "...but
the Queen is such a nice person, she
causes no harm to the nation."
Erminia
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Subject: Re: re de sade et al... and
Fyodor
Oswald Mosley's version of Fascism in Britain
was interesting. He left the Labour party in 1932 to form the British Union of
Fascists (his plans for economic reform as a Labour minister were concise and
sophisticated). Though his manifesto 'The Greater Britain' preached the
essentials of a Fascist state - devotion to a visionary figurehead, devotion
to the state - it was odd that he so desired to blend both Left and Right
policies within his new party. The Left was represented in his grand plans for
the abolition of massive unemployment numbers in Britain (as a result of the
Great Depression), but at the same time he was one for expressing nostalgic,
nationalist sentiment; identifying the heart of Britain in pastoral history,
in green and pleasant fields.
Furthermore, and though we should keep in mind
that the BUF never had huge membership figures, less emphasis was stressed on
anti-semitism in Mosley's regime. This can be easily explained by the fact
that the habitual, closed environment of British politics wouldn't accept a
racist organisation. It's interesting to see that a politician, who, like
Churchill and Lloyd George, wasn't educated at university, and whose name was
bantered around as a potential PM, tested out Fascism in this less extreme
sense. And, make no mistake, some of his economic plans were amazingly
original. But his fate was sealed the moment his party claimed ownership of
the best aspects of both Left and Right, especially under the banner of
'Fascism'.