To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (1122 ) 8/24/2009 3:06:41 PM From: Jorj X Mckie 1 Recommendation Respond to the assertions that people were showing up townhall meetings with nazi references had me a little perplexed. But it kinda struck me, these weren't people advocating Nazis, it was people saying Obama was employing tactics used by nazis.constitutionalistnc.tripod.com calvin.edu en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org Fascist governments forbid and suppress criticism and opposition to the government and the fascist movement.[8] Fascism opposes class conflict, blames capitalist liberal democracies for its creation and communists for exploiting the concept.[9] In the economic sphere, many fascist leaders have claimed to support a "Third Way" in economic policy, which they believed superior to both the rampant individualism of unrestrained capitalism and the severe control of state communism.[10][11] This was to be achieved by establishing significant government control over business and labour (Mussolini called his nation's system "the corporate state").[12][13] No common and concise definition exists for fascism and historians and political scientists disagree on what should be in any concise definition.[14] a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion Benito Mussolini promised a "social revolution" that would "remake" the Italian people, which was only achieved in part.[150] The people who primarily benefited from Italian fascist social policies were members of the middle and lower-middle classes, who filled jobs in the vastly expanding government workforce, which grew from about 500,000 to a million jobs in 1930
