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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (323093)	11/25/2002 3:38:09 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Again, absent a mobilizing ideology, I don't see how it can be NAZI. Perhaps it would resemble Venice in its heyday, a modest imperial power run oligarchically.....

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (323093)	11/25/2002 9:34:57 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I haven't read the entire thread, but it seems to me we have confused the use of markets with social philosophy here. The abscence or presence of markets do not define the existence of communism, fascism or even capitalism for that matter (where people exist, so do markets - period). These systems are defined by their views of man. They are social systems that argue for different "most significant" units of society. Of course fascism and communism are similar in that they are statist systems, but they work differently and essentially have different ideologies, neither of which forbid the use of markets ultimately for statist ends.