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To: frankw1900 who wrote (20214)	2/28/2002 5:01:41 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi frankw1900; Re fascism and non democratic governments. Did we find an example of a fascist government that was in a country that had never had elections? Maybe I missed a post. -- Carl

To: frankw1900 who wrote (20214)	2/28/2002 10:16:51 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

n fact, as has been recently noted on this thread, fascism is a feature of democracies, not of authoritarian states. ??????It has been a feature of democracies but hardly their monopoly, has it? It hasn't only arisen in democracies. This is a mistatement of the portion of that conversation in which I participated. CB argued that fascism was in some sense strongly connected to a democratic polity. I argued there were more than a trivial number of cases in which fascism grew out of coups rather than democratic elections. Neither of us argued that fascism is a "feature" of democracy. John