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To: koan who wrote (545953)	1/25/2010 12:40:48 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577707

Its an ok definition, maybe even a pretty good one. The "traditional left-right spectrum" breaks down at the extremes with facism and communism being more like each other than they are like liberal capitalist democratic systems, but the definition is correct when it says that fascism is "is usually considered to be on the far right". The definition is correct when it points out that fascism is anti-democratic, isn't a big fan of the free market ("blames capitalism" ... "superior to both the rampant individualism of unrestrained capitalism"). Fascism is not even close to the complete opposite of Marxian socialism, except in rather narrow ways, but its adherents sometimes fancy themselves as being that. It also correctly points out that fascists seek to establish "significant government control over business and labour". Which is of course a very different thing than business and labor establishing control over the government.

To: koan who wrote (545953)	1/25/2010 12:51:06 PM
From: i-node	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577707

There should be no mention of "right". Fascism springs as much from the Left as from the Right, perhaps more so. For example, in America, the closest we have come to fascism have been under Wilson, FDR, and Obama. Had Huey Long been elected there is a very good chance we would have become fascist, since he effectively ran Louisiana as a fascist state. I can think of no examples of fascist tendencies in America coming from the Right, although there might be some.

To: koan who wrote (545953)	1/25/2010 1:07:23 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577707

Nazi capitalism: an oxymoron? antidismal.blogspot.com

To: koan who wrote (545953)	1/25/2010 3:11:38 PM
From: bentway	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1577707

"Fascism, pronounced /'fæ??z?m/, is a political ideology that seeks to combine radical and authoritarian nationalism[1][2][3][4] with a corporatist economic system,[5] and which is usually considered to be on the far right of the traditional left-right political spectrum.[6][7][8][9][10]" Of course they don't! That definition makes ALL our right wingnuts on this thread FASCISTS! They can't be fascists, they believe themselves to be the good guys, as they ignorantly repeat the history they never learned from.