To: TimF who wrote (483730 ) 5/28/2009 12:21:35 PM From: Alighieri Respond to In the broadest sense no. "Might resemble particular ideologies" says nothing about which ideologies." "Resemble" is rather weak, many things can resemble other things while mostly being very different, and "might" makes it weaker still. And "borrowing" can be borrowing something to make a very small part of your program and/or it might be borrowing something that the ideologies used, that has no important connection to those ideologies (in other dicussions I've used the example that "Nazis soldiers made flanking attacks, and so does the US army, but that doesn't mean we are borrowing from them to a great extent, the basic idea goes back to pre-history, or in the broadest sense to before their where people (animals could be said to make flanking attacks). And even if we where borrowing from them (if the Nazis really did invent it, or if the idea came to us through them) it wouldn't be copying anything odious from them. It is possible to avoid making a copy from the economic agenda of fascism or communism an important part of your economic program. And in this case I would also call it odious. Not the most odious thing they did of course, but still odious and connected to parts of their ideology, not just an incidental thing they happened to do.
