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To: JohnM who wrote (37821)	8/14/2002 3:47:17 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

As far my mistake being a mistake of the left, however, I doubt it. I did not formulate that opinion on my own. That's a direct crib from the Paxton article which I recommended to you. He has footnotes to references which support that point. Here's a direct quote: "It took two generations for the Left to understand that fascism is, after all, an authentic mass popular enthusiasm and not merely a clever manipulation of populist emotions by the reactionary Right or capitalism in crisis." But if you mean that fascism confuses people because, unlike other "isms" there are no formal philosophical positions with claims to universal validity, as Paxton points out, I believe it would be accurate to say that this is not an error which is limited to the Left. However, in my experience (which is, admittedly, limited) it tends to be people on the Left who find fascism confusing because there's no over-arching text while people on the Right see the resemblance to communism and stop there. Very few people on the Right really understand the fine points of Communism. I put myself in that category, but having known some communists, I know that I don't know. Here's the JSTOR stable URL, I assume you can access JSTOR when you are not in the office. links.jstor.org Can't wait until I am 60 and can take classes at George Mason for free every semester, so I can have access to JSTOR for the rest of my life. It's a great resource.