Otoh he is one, and who knows what his personal assistant would think about him when the readers/listeners have such ideas about him ...
the other one: But it is not right to let socialist and fascist movement coincide and to shout down mark (or even r4e) about it, and all that only to find a way of shouting "fascist" at Clinton and his government. In Germany, as a general rule, the one that shouts "fascist" discredits himself, if he can't deliver hard evidence (for racism, or participation in the NAZI state) to base on. For us, that is most probably the best way. Maybe that is why it was difficult for me to hold myself down when I read Darrell.
I think even the older (1950's) historians were more correct than Darrell's source, by introducing the term "totalitarian" to denote that both Hitler's and Stalin's regimes were using similar means to control the individual - freeing them of the need to equalize both systems ideologically.
Don't forget, I am a conservative, and I was maybe hit similarly to you by Reagan, given that most political happenings in Western Germany are a delayed copy of US-American trends. Still I feel there is importance to make the difference.
For another reason, while communism is dead, and unlikely to live again, NAZIs are present, and with open questions on the future of the national state, might be revived.
I had tried to give credit for the apparent non-necessity of novelty.
Regards MNI. |
